TURIM, Rainer
Exploring Brooklyn’s Used Bookstores

A guide to Brooklyn’s recent used-bookstores from the last 20 years…

In this research zine, writer Rainer Turim lays out the cultural and political context of street bookselling that eventually led to many of today’s indie used-bookstores in Brooklyn, including Better Read than Dead and the late Book Thug Nation. Interviews include Aaron Cometbus, co-founder of Book Thug Nation, Human Relations, Codex, and Troubled Sleep. Other bookstores featured include Molasses Books, Book Row, Unnameable Books, Spoonbill & Sugartown, leaves, Desert Island Comics, Property is Theft (The PIT), The Word is Change, Mil Mundos Books, and Topos Bookstore in Ridgewood, Queens. In the memory of Matty D'Angelo, co-founder of Better Read Than Dead. [publishers' note]

Self-Published, 2026
Zines / Book Culture / Counterculture / Scenes