Ezra, the soon to be owner of the Community Bookstore wrote to OTBKB about a great reading on Wednesday night. He writes: “It’s been a bit quiet of late at the old bookstore (celebrating its 39th year!) what with owner Catherine Bohne’s determination to park herself in one of the few remaining places on earth (Albania’s Valbona Valley) reachable by neither Internet nor cell phone. We are, however, regathering steam, energized by Catherine’s faith in us to run the store in her absence, and by the wonderful loyalty of our customers to our book-lined and somewhat Bohemian lair, as distant from a big box chain store as Brooklyn is from Bajrum Curri (the Albanian village where Catherine goes once a week to shop). What better way to get things going again than with a reading this Wednesday, 7pm, by Brooklyn’s own Jennifer Egan?…

In its rave view of her newest book, A visit from the Goon Squad, The New York Times wondered “whether this tough, uncategorizable work of fiction is a novel, a collection of carefully arranged interlocking stories or simply a display of Ms. Egan’s extreme virtuosity.” You can ask the virtuoso yourself Wednesday evening, and hear a bit from what we think is one of the best-crafted, most intriguing and most readable books of the year.