St. Mark's Bookshop was established in 1977 in New York's East Village, a community of students, academics, arts professionals and other eclectic readers. Their specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishers, Film Studies and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals & Journals.Citysearch says: One of the best-designed bookstores in the city, St. Mark's also gets points for knowing its clientele: Cooper Union and NYU students, plus those odd creatures who, years out of college, are still really into Derrida. You might run into Jim Jarmusch or someone equally eclectic. Like Jarmusch, St. Mark's is a downtown institution: Though it's about a three-minute walk from the [former] Astor Place Barnes & Noble superstore [B&N is gone, but St. Mark’s lives on!], it's light-years away in every other sense. And it is quickly becoming surrounded by the other harbingers of the apocalypse: Starbucks and Kmart are both frighteningly nearby.

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