Left Bank Books Collective

11/04/2024

Reclaiming Liberatory Belonging:

A reading of Push the Water, an antizionist memoir with Irit Reinheimer and Dan Berger

On November 8, Left Bank Books and JVP Seattle will host a conversation with writer and filmmaker Irit Reinheimer and author and historian Dan Berger. The two will discuss Irit’s anti-Zionist memoir, Push the Water, which weaves together descriptions of archival footage, home movies, and memories that prompt new recognitions of her Jewish family’s participation in settler-colonialism and the occupation of Palestine. This story is about what it means to be claimed by violent forces and what it looks like to refuse that claim, to choose a q***r, liberatory belonging instead. Push the Water brings politics rendered as image, image refracted through memory, and memory bisected by love and rage.

"Wrestling with our own complicity with the state is essential as Jews committed to Palestinian liberation, and I’m profoundly grateful for this astute, thoughtful exploration of the painful tangles of family and politics." — Dori Midnight

“Irit Reinheimer has given us a beautiful meditation on family, violence, and the places we (never) call home. Elegant and sophisticated, Push the Water is a bold exploration of Jewish identity and q***r kinship in search of a better world.” — Dan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey

10/01/2024

Saturday October 12 we will be hosting music
Doors at seven thirty, music at eight.
$5-$10 notaflof

All ages + masks required / provided. N-95 masks will be available free on request. Air purifiers will be running throughout the event.

The front of the space where the music will be is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store is not.

09/30/2024

Left Bank Books is always accepting volunteer applications!

Volunteer shifts are three hours a week, and give people the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of what it means to collectively run a business while operating in a non-hierarchical and anarchist value system.

Our success as a 51-year-old independent project has everything to do with the people who constitute our collective and bring their radical selves to the table; we value independence and self-motivation and hope to encourage and inspire volunteers rather than act as bosses.

Left Bank is comprised of a diverse community of radicals who work to challenge all forms of privilege and oppression on an individual and institutional level, and who want to encourage and empower each other as we skill share and grow together.

We’d like to ask people considering a volunteer role at Left Bank to commit to 6 months/3 hours a week, to show up on time, call us in the case of an absence, and participate in our annual retreat and unlearning oppression workshops.

Benefits of being a Volunteer:

A 30% discount on books, zines, shirts and stickers, and 20% on magazines

Bus fare

An opportunity to learn about working collectively

Info packet and volunteer application are available at www.leftbankbooks.com

Please drop off your completed application in person!

09/23/2024

This upcoming week until 9/18/24, all donations to Books to Prisoners will be matched by the Hull Family Foundation for Banned Books Week. We have a display set up with commonly asked for titles & genres. Come by to donate a book for a friend in prison!

09/14/2024

Find us and come hang out at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair on September 28th & 29th with a selection of books, zines, and more!

We’ll also be at coming up on the 21st & 22nd, and later heading down to on Oct 6th.

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09/10/2024

Tomorrow evening we will be hosting a set by
The store closes at seven and music will begin shortly after.

All ages + masks required / provided. N-95 masks will be available free on request. Air purifiers will be running throughout the event.

The front of the space where the music will be is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store is not.

09/03/2024

We will be hosting a show this saturday! EP release show for featuring and

Doors at 7, music is 7:30. $5-10 but no one turned away.

All ages + masks required / provided. N-95 masks will be available free on request. Air purifiers will be running throughout the event.

The front of the space where the music will be is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store is not.

08/22/2024

Event tonight at the shop!
Thursday Aug 22
7-9pm

This public panel discussion convenes activists and organizers who represent antifascist, abolitionist, and decolonizing perspectives to share skills and synthesize insights about organizing, with an eye for the lessons they can offer one another in the increasingly authoritarian times in our horizon. While conversations about the “diversity of tactics” can sometimes shut down or divide political groups according to their commitments, the political landscape increasingly demands collaboration across our differences and political action at scale. We hope this panel might make a modest contribution to that goal.

08/17/2024

Unfortunately due to an unexpected personal emergency, we’ve had to cancel this upcoming event at Pipsqueak with Tina Horn. Thank you for your understanding. We have lots of copies of the book avaliable in the shop and can’t reccomend it enough!

07/25/2024

Come to the show next thursday 08/01 to see
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Doors at 7. $5 but no one turned away.

All ages + masks required / provided. N-95 masks available free on request.
Air purifiers will be running throughout the event.

The front of the space where the music will be is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store is not.

07/19/2024

After many conversations we have decided to open for mask optional shopping two days of the week. For the time being these will be Fridays and Saturdays. All other days remain mask mandatory.

The conversation is ongoing and changes to this schedule may occur, reflecting our best attempt to support our community's safety as well as the changing needs and capacities of our collective.

06/18/2024

join us next monday, june 24, for a klezmer jam by with special performance by Jimmy Austin & Tate Linden.

7pm to 9:30, masks required

for more information reach out to [email protected]

06/16/2024

our monthly (last thursdays) bipoc poetry open mic is coming up on june 27, 7:30pm. bring yourself and some friends and poetry to share (original and found!) let’s find each other:) masks required!

06/12/2024

06/09/2024

This is tonight at the shop at 7:30! $15 or whatever. Mask up!

05/24/2024

it’s true we’re having a joint author event w robert lashley and david fewster next month!!! join us on june 20 thurs at 7:30pm to celebrate their work and especially to celebrate I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer, lashley’s debut novel which i started reading, got overwhelmed w emotion and had to put down immediately a few months ago, and finally finished more recently bc i was so excited to be able to help host this event. it’s an epistolary novel following a young Black student in tacoma over the course of a summer and it has the power to bring u to tears laughter anger and understanding. PLEASE COME :)

05/15/2024

A Knife Like Night

The Legacy of Frank Stanford
A talk and poetry reading with translator Luca Dipierro
Left Bank Books

92 Pike, Seattle
Thursday, June 13
7:30 PM

A night dedicated to the poetry of Frank Stanford, one of the most original and visionary authors of the second half of the 20th century.

Luca Dipierro, editor and translator of the Italian anthology Acqua segreta (Interno Poesia, 2024) will talk about Stanford’s poetry and its relation to otherness through the lens of translation. The talk and reading will be accompanied by a rare screening of the Frank Sanford documentary It Wasn’t A Dream: It Was A Flood (1974).