Rain gently pattered on the back window of Mellow Pages library and reading room as the L train roared beneath Bogart Street during a Secret Reading on a Tuesday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. Spectators nestled on couches, the floor and anywhere they could fit inside the intimate space and listened intently to author Cameron Pierce, of Portland’s Lazy Fascist Press, read from his book Die You Doughnut Bastards.

There are now more books on the walls, more makeshift shelves, more events planned and more bodies reading books on the couches on any given day. In fact, Tonight, Wednesday, March 27,  at 7 p.m. Mellow Pages will host a reading by Nathaniel Kressen and Bushwick Daily’s own Cat Agonis, where she will read from her new novel Chicken on the Hudson. This is life now for Jacob Perkins and Matt Nelson, the creators of the independent library, which opened only one month ago.

“The response was more positive than we expected,” Perkins says of the library’s opening on Thursday, February 21.