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A literary project. The bookstore of @oldspeakbar 🍻 Global books / diverse lit. Awarded Best of Boise 2025
🌲 Garden City, ID

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1984 READ OUT LOUD 💥 👁️ 📖
Sunday, October 4th
(All day long!)

The why: October 4th is the first day of Banned Books Week. This annual event raises awareness for our freedom to read. Banned Books Week launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of book challenges in libraries, schools, and bookstores. In case you’ve missed it, in the last 5 years we have had a resurgence of book challenges and book bans both locally in Idaho and nationwide.

To kick off our banned book events programme, we’re inviting you to join in for an all-day READ OUT LOUD event where our crew and our customers can partake in a live reading of 1984, one of the most well known (and highly relevant) banned books throughout time. We’ll start right at 12pm and keep reading until we run out of book (or time). 😮‍💨

Come and go as you’d like. We’ll have pizza from our neighbors at @heyblackmoon and will make a whole day of it. 🍕 🗣️

Curious what other banned books events we have going on? Check out our events calendar for more.

*this event was inspired by the Moby Dick read out loud event at Deep Vellum Books! 🐳 📚 @deepvellumbooks by @thisroomislit

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A question we get more often than not is “can I read the books?”
Honey, great news! 🗞️ Not only can you read them but you can buy them and support our indie bookstore and beer bar. @oldspeakbar

Our indie bookstore, The Lit Room, started as an inkling of an idea in 2021, with the mission to bring lesser known but high caliber books forward into the Treasure Valley community. What started as a popup shop always had the end goal of being a physical space with community at the center and books on the periphery.

Overarching themes you’ll find in the collection of books on the shelves include global literature, titles from independent small presses, underrepresented voices, and other just damn good quirky reads. We filter books through a feminist lens, knowing inclusion of a specific title always means the rejection of another (we agree: the book buying budget could always be bigger) 😜 — for now, we work with what we’ve got and that means curated selection of diverse reads we’re proud of.

We host a multitude of literary events including panel discussions with local authors, themed nights, book clubs, and more. Want to partner with us? DM us for more. by @thisroomislit

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2 months ago

Another amazing night at Write Drink Edit Sober 🍷 ✍️ if you missed this not to worry, we are here every 1st Thursday of the month! Thank you Old Speak for having us! taken in Oldspeak Bar by @thisroomislit

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Literary fall, y’all 🤠 📚 🍷

Upcoming events with the Lit Room include: weekly Write Clubs on Fridays, the beloved 💕 Write Drunk Edit Sober 💕, a community READ OUT LOUD event where we all take part in reading Orwell’s 1984 from start to end together 🤯 and a seasonal Book Tasting with curated wines hosted with our friends @parcerowinebar 🍷 (this coming Tuesday!) where you get a flight of four wines and get to pick a banned book to bring home.

All this and more. Linked in our bio and at oldspeakbar.com.

Also pls enjoy these random photos Chelsea took whilst visiting family and friends in Texas! 😘 by @thisroomislit

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5 days ago

What Went West: 10 days, 10 events, 2,500 miles… by @thisroomislit

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Looking for Jane brought a full table and a lot to talk about at tonight’s Parcero x @thisroomislit Book Club. A story spanning decades, a letter that never reached its reader, and the women whose choices shaped each other’s lives made for a thoughtful conversation. Thank you to everyone who came ready to share and listen. Our discussion was so incredible and thought provoking. Cheers.

Our next book is The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende.
Discussion Date: Monday, October 26 | 6 PM

Everyone is welcome. No RSVP required, and you don’t even have to finish the book to join us. Grab a copy at The Lit Room or through the link in our bio, which also supports our friends at The Lit Room. 🤍📚🍷 by @thisroomislit

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Couldn’t help ourselves. 😜 📚 taken in Oldspeak Bar by @thisroomislit

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This week! 🫀🫀

Monday - Trivia at the book bar 🗣️
Tuesday - Table Talk @under_the_table_boise
Thursday - Banned Book Club @boisebannedbookclub
Friday - Keep It Simple Comedy Show! 🎤
Sunday - Boise People’s @boisepeoplesreadinggroup and Artspeak with @erykarossart

And don’t forget. This silly thing called Happy Hour runs Wednesday to Saturday 3-6pm and ALL DAY SUNDAY. Support local. Come hang out! 🍻 by @thisroomislit

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Happy Latine Heritage Month! 🇲🇽 ❤️ Enjoy some curated titles from our little indie bookshop nestled inside @oldspeakbar ✨ curated by bookshop director & one of our favorite Latinas @cristinaghouston by @thisroomislit

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This Sunday! 📖

Reading and Conversation with Josh Weil and Alan Heathcock, discussing Josh’s new novel WHAT CAME WEST. @joshjweil @alan_heathcock

Long considered a writer’s writer, Josh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea, the novella collection The New Valley, and the story collection The Age of Perpetual Light. He is a Fulbright Fellow and has been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award, the California Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. For the past dozen years, he has called the Sierra Nevada of Northern California home.

An avid outdoorsman, he has traversed much of the terrain in What Came West, swam in the lakes high in the Sierra Buttes, scrambled in the Grouse Ridge region, and white water rafted down the South Yuba River, and explored remote Appalachia, Egypt’s Western Desert, Romania’s Carpathian mountains, Slovakia’s Tatras, the Karelian lakes region of northern Russia, Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains, and the Mongolian Steppe—all with nothing more than a pack and a one-man tent.

A visual artist and lithographer, he spent six months completing the twenty intricate dip-pen illustrations throughout What Came West. by @thisroomislit

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