Taken from the Shelf Awareness newsletter:

BookCourt, Brooklyn, N.Y., is building a 1,600-sq.-ft. wing that should be finished in late November and will nearly double the store’s size, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported. BookCourt’s new wing will house a small café and bar with outdoor garden as well as nonfiction titles, which are currently in the basement. In the future, the basement will be used for remainders. Children’s book inventory will be tripled.

Owners Henry Zook and Mary Gannett, who founded the store in 1981, attributed the impetus for the long-considered expansion to their son, Zack, who has been involved in the family business fulltime since graduating from college in 2005. Zack also plans to start publishing Cousin Corinne, a literary journal that will include fiction, essays, poetry and dramatic works and be separate from the store. Eventually he hopes for BookCourt to publish books.

Several keys to the store’s success: owning its own building and its location, “on the nexus” of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights. “It’s a great location,” Henry told the paper. “Though we didn’t know that at the time.”

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