The other night at Word, the masterful prose stylist Gary Lutz read with Robert Lopez and Blake Butler (who came in all the way from Atlanta to present his kick-ass new book, Ever). They were introduced by Word employee Luca Dipierro, who revealed to me that it was, sadly, his last night working at the store (but not because he didn’t love it; the reasons were more to do economics). In fact, it took all of about five minutes of talking to Dipierro to recognize how passionately he cares about fiction, and I later heard that he’s embarking on a lit-film project, along with author Michael Kimball, to film different writers they admire, reading their work in different places. Butler, the first, reads above in a subway car. Also: For a small store, Word has a solid selection. I got this and this.