Carrie Kania, who this summer left publishing in New York to become a literary agent in London has added yet another profession to her resume: bookseller. While continuing as an agent, she is co-owner of the Society Club, a new combination bookstore, gallery and café in Soho in London.
Kania's partners in the venture are Robert Pereno and wife, Babette. The three owners sell "only goods they love," according to the London edition of the Daily Candy. Stock ranges from "vintage furniture to first-edition books, homemade jam, limited-edition prints, mustache wax and dog food. A communal table runs through the centre of the shop, aiming to bring like-minded people together and encourage the 'intellectual cool' to mingle over tea, coffee, pastries and cakes."
The Society Club has book launches, poetry readings, storytelling and live music sessions. "The last event was a Q&A with Andy Warhol's friend and The Factory's in-house photographer, Leee Black Childers," the Daily Candy wrote.
Until this past August, Kania was publisher of Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks and is now an agent at Conville & Walsh in London (Shelf Awareness, July 26, 2011).
The Society Club is located at 12 Ingestre Place, London W1F OJF; 20-7437-1433; thesocietyclub.com.
