When Nyssa Frank, owner of the Living Gallery, noticed that Bushwick bookstores were cropping up like dandelions (Mellow Pages, Molasses, and Human Relations, to name a few) she began to wonder how best to bring these very different bookstores into conversation with one another. “There are a lot of new bookstores opening, and they all should communicate and celebrate each other!” wrote Nyssa. The Living Gallery is totally community oriented; they hold cooking classes, amateur philosophy nights, and who hasn’t spent a delightful drunken evening there drawing sketches of a stranger?