Welcome to Waxing Literary, where we’re too lazy… er, I mean, erudite and busy reading Proust, to think of a funnier bee-related title pun.

My name is Kat, and I’ll be here each week with book-centric news from around the city – everything from bookstore profiles to author events to the occasional review.

Can all of you read? Are you ready to enter the secret Hive-Lair of the Literati?

Good, then let’s get started!

Before we can spend all our waking hours talking about books, it is first necessary to procure some. But, as a quick tour around Barnes & Noble will undoubtedly reveal, there’s one problem: they’re effin’ expensive. So in order to keep your shelves stocked with important works of literature (or to avoid shelling out $7.95 for the latest paperback featuring a cat that solves mysteries ), I’m dedicating this week’s column to ways of Being Bookish On A Budget, special to NYC.

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