#bookwars

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Vintage Bookseller Documentary 'BookWars' Continues to Dazzle New Audiences

See the award winning bookseller documentary 'BookWars' (Terrific - LA Times) INSTANTLY on: Amazon Prime: http://amzn.to/2BZmCfI , on Tubi TV https://bit.ly/bookwars-tubi-tv and on Kanopy at http://www.kanopy.com | ('Superb'...mesmerizing - NY Film Critics Circle)

'BookWars' is: The gritty world of New York City street booksellers told in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life.... See the Mayor, the NYPD, and the University try to shut them down!

Get more information at: https://bookwarsmovie.com/about-new-york-documentary-bookwars/  

A Flick by Jason Rosette IFP Gotham Award Nominee Winner: New York Underground Film Festival As seen on: Arte/ZDF, NHK, KCET, Bravo!, Metrochannels, Cinemapop, and other platforms Many international and domestic festival selections!

About the Bookseller Documentary, BookWars 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BookWars is a New York bookseller documentary by Jason Rosette produced by Camerado, about the life and times of New York City street booksellers.[1] Made on an ultra-low budget in a jazzy, impressionistic style reminiscent of the films of Robert Frank and poetry of the Beat Generation, BookWars is the only first-person documentary made during then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's controversial "Quality of Life" campaign, which sought to limit and control individuals engaged in informal economic activities on the streets of New York City.

BookWars was released in June 2000, winning the Best Documentary Award at the 2000 New York Underground Film Festival and premiering theatrically at New York's Cinema Village.[2] Despite its minuscule budget (estimated at $10,000, prerelease) BookWars enjoyed numerous domestic and international TV sales and has to date generated revenue of several hundred thousand dollars.

Synopsis

"BookWars is: The gritty, untamed world of street booksellers, exposed in a remarkable feature film that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life. Shot entirely on location by fellow street bookseller and filmmaker Jason Rosette, and produced by James and John Montoya, Alan Fulford and filmmaker Michel Negroponte, BookWars explores the other side of the book tables that line the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, 6th avenue, and elsewhere in New York City."

Plot

BookWars is a creative documentary which is told in an unconventional, narrative style. The film opens with the narrator (who is also the film's director) driving out West along a desert highway, relating to the audience his previous experiences as a streetside bookseller in New York City. The entire documentary – including the central events involving his experiences among the street booksellers in New York – is thus "told" as a long conversation.

The narrator describes his post-graduation years in New York, and how he ended up at one point virtually penniless. Driven by a desperate need to pay the rent, he resorts to wheeling his own books out to the street to try to sell them. He reveals that he was not only successful in making a significant amount of cash on that first day, but he has also met a variety of interesting and strange characters of the streets of New York – including other street booksellers.

A motley assortment of street booksellers on West 4th street, in Greenwich Village, New York City, are first introduced. Among them: “Slick” Rick Sherman, a semi-professional magician; Al Mappo, so named because he only sells maps and atlases; Emil, who says only he "escaped”, though we do not know from where; and Pete Whitney: King of the booksellers, toad collector, and collage artist.

BookWars next introduces another group of street booksellers who hawk their trade on nearby 6th Avenue. Mainly black and minority individuals, they ply books and magazines in parallel fashion to the nearby West 4th street booksellers, who are primarily white. The booksellers on 6th Avenue suffer greater exposure to the law, with many claiming this to be due to racial profiling.

Some of the significant personalities that are introduced on 6th Avenue include: Marvin, always wearing his trademark black hat; and Ron, from Jamaica – charismatic, streetwise and outspoken.

After the introduction of the primary characters (including the narrator bookseller himself), BookWars discusses, mainly through informal testimony, the various aspects of the street bookseller's life in chapter-by-chapter fashion.

The tools and tricks of the street bookseller's trade are revealed: ways and techniques to maximize income; how to deal with difficult, and sometimes dangerous customers; where and how to get more books; how the booksellers have a right to distribute literature (commercially or otherwise) in public, as per the First Amendment to the United States Constitution; and so on.

BookWars is structured as a “year in the life” style movie, although it was actually produced over several seasons, from 1995 to 1999. When Winter comes, and the streets are too snow-filled and cold to hawk books, the booksellers are shown in their various off-season modes and occupations. “Slick” Rick performs card and magic tricks at parties; Pete Whitney grooms cats for old ladies; and the narrator heads out to New Mexico to work on a Western*.

(*Which was actually the movie The Desperate Trail IMDB)

Marv and Ron, however, continue to sell books throughout the winter on busy 6th Avenue, and the film follows them as they scour for books and pornographic magazines in the trash in Soho.

Finally, Spring comes, and the booksellers emerge from their off-season to sell books as usual for another season – or so they think. BookWars proceeds to reveal the street-level effects of then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s controversial “Quality of Life” campaign, which sought to remove informal, unregistered entrepreneurs and other individuals from the streets of New York City.

The NYPD begins to enforce obscure technicalities which govern the uses and dimensions of the sidewalks,[3] thereby making it more difficult to earn a livelihood. A new tax identification number requirement is introduced, creating bureaucratic obstacles, especially for those street booksellers who are marginal or virtually homeless. Nearby New York University unlawfully places imposing, massive planters on the sidewalk in an attempt to drive the street booksellers away; and finally, especially on 6th Avenue where the majority of black street booksellers are active, the NYPD comes to haul away books.

The street booksellers resist and assemble to form an unlikely common front to protest against the actions of the city. Others, who have had their books confiscated, wait for hours at the police station to get them back. Still others, like Ron, rail against the futility of the city's efforts to stop New Yorkers from reading, because of their virtual addiction to books.

In the end, the street booksellers stand their ground against the Mayor, and are able to continue selling with minor adjustments to their way of life.

In the closing moments of BookWars, the narrator admits that after all the recent problems with the city, he has grown restless; he realizes that he wants to do something different, and wants to change his occupation at last. A single massive rainstorm is enough to convince him to give up his street bookselling activities.

He sells the last of his books off to his fellow street booksellers, and heads out West, on a cross-country road trip, with the audience in the passenger seat sharing the ride.

[koszmarnybudyn]

So i started eldermourne finally.. it's great i love it honestly, soni did a charakter design lineup because that's what i always do.

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

In Reserve Bookshop

In Reserve Bookshop

by bookwars

A certain angel realizes his feelings might be returned. Will they be too late?

Words: 2431, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Adam Young (Good Omens), Original Characters, Original Non-Human Character(s)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale & Crowley & Adam Young (Good Omens), Crowley & Adam Young (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Romantic Fluff, Knife Violence, Post-Canon, Added Powers, Character Death, Love Confessions, Confessions

From https://ift.tt/9a5i4CD https://archiveofourown.org/works/47683873

[thekelbeshow]

#whowillgetmemoiroftheyear #bookwars

[bdsrsated]

Manila International Book Fair!!! September 11-15, 2024 Smx Convention Center Manila

Scene By #BDMS #BILL

Linar International Book Resources, Inc Adarna House Philippine Bible Society apop books Anvil Publishing Sensation Press Flutter Fic Rex Education National Historical Commission of the Philippines Brilliant Creations Publishing The Ramkrishna Vedanta Society of the Philippines LYRIC PIANO & ORGAN CORPORATION Bookware Publishing Mind Mover Publishing House

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

The Untitled Hurt and Comfort Fic/ Nightmares

by bookwars

The Revenge is boarded and attacked, will everyone survive?

Words: 720, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Love and Sea

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, OFC

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet

Additional Tags: Angst, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Romantic Fluff, Late Night Conversations, Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Character Death, Fake Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46937809

[davidmalki]

Yesterday, @ryannorth​, I vowed to dig up EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER WRITTEN and SHOVE IT into the cold light of day.

Today, crammed into a shoebox deep in a file drawer with a bunch of other stuff from 2006, I found this – the script for Friends Forever Till the Universe Explodes. Ryan, I don't know if you had forgotten completely about this, but I had.

Seeing it all wrinkled and worn brought a flood of memories back. Laughing in restaurants – my first visit to Toronto when we walked around downtown and tried to get onto the roof of that hospital or whatever it was – your first visit to Los Angeles when we got stuck trying to navigate the same intersection in Silverlake for like fifteen minutes – laughing, joking, getting to know one another...and then the realization, in the middle of a Whispered Apologies-related conversation as I recall, that we had the makings of a show.

Writing. Revising. Rehearsing. Being unable to decide whether to hold the show in Los Angeles or Toronto, then coming up with the brilliant idea (for a couple of 25-year-olds) that we should split the difference and hold it in Sutherland, Nebraska, exactly halfway between the two!

It was such a fiasco that we vowed never to speak of it again. Well, I'm sorry, Ryan. I'm sorry that I'm breaking that promise now. I'm sorry that I won't forget about the thing that brought us together. I'm sorry that I forgot before.

I'm sorry.

[carlberryman]

Author Spotlight with Carl Berryman talks about his books "2025" , "Divided We Fall", and "2023"

[juyoukiss]

Whenever I am feeling down as a cosplayer and destroying myself by comparing myself to others I have to remind myself that I am enough. There are many things I can't do for various reasons but what I need to remember is there are other things I can do. Sure there are many out there but no one is the same and we all bring our own flavor to the world. I made this particular collage of cosplays because these are the ones someone I highly admire liked on Twitter. It helps me feel less... well worthless. Find what helps you in the darkness and keep spreading your light! Love you all! #goodomens #goodomenscosplay #sandman #cosplay #neilgaiman #aziraphale #crowley #bookwar #madametracy #Wensleydale #desire #death #theendless https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPr_LSD2zY/?igshid=142cmena4017o

[krjpalmer]

Computer Gaming World January 1996

An upcoming flight simulator featuring a new jet fighter featured on this issue’s cover. Inside, an article looked at the science fiction games of the past year with a definite nod to “Sturgeon’s Law,” leading into an interview with Ray Bradbury about a new game based on one of his works (more than a decade after a previous adventure of the “bookware” era), although the game wasn’t favourably reviewed.

[maisonderetraite]

i drew the cover for the Klaus Legal / Читай Букварь split LP

https://www.discogs.com/Klaus-Legal-%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9-%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C-Bookwar-Insomnie-et-po%C3%A9sie-%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%91/release/10446140

[ao3feed-destiel]

Flowers are for lovers.

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2vCjGB4

by bookwars

Someone keeps stealing flowers from Cas's garden, and he is getting really tried of it.

Words: 667, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural, Supernatural: The Animation, Supernatural Novels - Various

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: M/M

Characters: Castiel, Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Mary Winchester

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel & Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Human, I'm Sorry, Misunderstandings, Misunderstood Dean, Tumblr Prompt, Originally Posted on Tumblr, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2vCjGB4

[cryingoflot49]

Bookwars

documentary film about booksellers on the streets of New York

directed by Jason Rosette (2000)

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WNYC Leonard Lopate Interviews Writer-Director, Filmmaker & Educator Jas...

[sweetphoenix35]

Si Wayna (Approved by Bookware) - Chapter 1 - Ang Bakasyunista (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/tazTVfSf21 May batang multong nagpaparamdam kay Joy, isang pitong taong gulang na nagsa-summer class sa school ng tiya niya at nakita rin ito ni Eula. Gusgusin at maputla ang multo sa suot na pulang bestida. Nakatirik ang mga mata nito at duguan ang ulo. Sa tingin ni Eula, pinatay ito at naghahanap ng hustisya. Ayaw sana niyang makialam dahil nagbabakasyon siya. Dumalaw siya sa tahimik na lugar ng kamag-anak sa probinsya para makapagrelaks at hindi para takutin ang sarili. Pero bukod sa naawa siya sa bata, naintriga rin siya sa isinisigaw ng aparisyon sa kanya: 'Wayna'. Sigurado siyang pangalan ang tinukoy nito. Sino si Wayna? *Full credit to the illustrator: Mae Alecsandra V. Abad. Book cover design is under copyright and has been created for the particular use of the author.

[ao3feed-lams]

Painful Daydreams

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Fr7d8t

by bookwars

Alexander says what he needs to say, but it is too late.

Words: 127, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow, Hamilton - Miranda

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: M/M

Characters: Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens

Relationships: Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens

Additional Tags: Pain, I'm Sorry, Character Death, Grief/Mourning

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Fr7d8t