Rizzoli Holiday Book Fair 2025

Join Rizzoli for a holiday fête with our favorite authors.

Meet a dazzling set of artists, designers, and writers, bring home signed editions to collect and give, enjoy Prosecco and Italian sweets, and help us toast a new year as a quintessential New York bookstore.

Discover our Christmas window, designed by artist Reena Wu in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts, NYC.

Featuring Prosecco and Italian sweets by Pasqua and Santa Chiara Alta Pasticceria. Receive an exclusive Rizzoli Bookstore tote bag with purchases of $75 or more.

Shop the Holiday Fair and receive a raffle ticket with every purchase for a chance to win a one-year Fiction or Nonfiction subscription!

PLEASE NOTE:

• Doors open at 6 pm for browsing and drinks.
• Author signings will take place 6:30 to 8:00.
• Book purchase required to enter signing line.
• Can't attend? Order holiday fair titles on our website and we'll ship signed copies for you.

SIGNING SCHEDULE

6 pm: Doors open. Drinks, treats, and browsing begins.

6:30–8:00 pm: Jeffrey Banks (The Storyteller: Tales from a Fashion Insider), Nate Berkus (Foundations), Ken Browar and Deborah Ory (Martha Graham Dance Company 100 Years), Jennifer Egan (The Candy House, Manhattan Beach), Kate Finney and Esmé Shapiro (Don't Eat Me! The Almost True Story of Belladonna), Dorie Greenspan (Dorie's Anytime Cakes), Kim Hastreiter (STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos), MACK Books, Daniel Mendelsohn (The Odyssey), James and Karla Murray (Vinyl NYC: 33 and 1/3 of the Best Record Stores Across All Five Boroughs), Giselle Potter (She Was My Grandmother), Jamel Shabazz (Drama and Flava), Gary Shteyngart (Vera, or Faith), Dasha Tolstikova (The Adventures of Cipollino), Larry Warsh (Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Head—The Mind), Doug Woodham (Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon).

Throughout the evening: a Moleskine pop-up featuring custom notebook embossing and live illustration by a sketch artist | a MACK photography book showcase | an Enchanted Lion children’s book presentation | sweets and prosecco.

From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.

The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time.

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was recently named one of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year. She has served as President of PEN America and twice as Artist-in-Residence in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught courses in 19th and 20th Century literature. Her year-long reporting on street homelessness and supportive housing in New York City was published in The New Yorker in September of 2023.

From one of the world’s most influential designers, a rich tour-de-force that explores how history, character, and vision come together to make a home at once timeless and personal.

Nate Berkus is one of the world’s most influential interior designers, known for his elevated yet accessible approach to interiors. Along with creating award-winning interiors for private clients, his thirty-year-and-counting career has included innumerable television shows and brand collaborations. Consistently named to the AD100 and Elle Décor A-List, Nate lives in New York with his husband Jeremiah Brent and their children Poppy and Oskar.

For the first time ever, a direct line is drawn between Shabazz’s groundbreaking early work (the styling and fashion of the late 1970s through the early 1990s) through his recent editorial work for Vogue, The New York Times, DAZED, The New Yorker, W Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Art Newspaper, and many more.

Jamel Shabazz is best known for his iconic photographs of New York City during the 1980s. A documentary, fashion, and street photographer, he has authored 12 monographs and contributed to over three dozen other photography-related books. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide and his work is housed within the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Getty Museum, The Dean Collection and the National Portrait Museum, among others. Over the years, Shabazz has instructed young students at the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “Expanding the Walls” project, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture “Teen Curator’s” program, and the Bronx Museum’s “Teen Council.” He is the 2023 recipient of the Lucie Foundation Award for his achievement in documentary photography, and the 2022 awardee of the Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl book prize. As an artist, Shabazz’s primary object is to contribute to the preservation of world history and culture. His books published by his long time home publisher powerHouse Books include Back in the Days, A Time Before Crack, Last Sunday in June, Seconds of my Life, Back in the Days Remix, Back in the Days Coloring Book.

A magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a “momentous achievement”: “thrilling,” “rich and rhythmical,” “superb,” “mesmerizing,” “searingly faithful—yet absolutely original.” “This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet."—Edith Hall, The Telegraph.

Memoirist, critic, translator, and frequent contributor of essays to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of ten books, including the international bestsellers The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, an NPR and Kirkus Best Book of the Year. His other honors include the Prix Médicis in France and the Premio Malaparte, Italy’s highest honor for foreign writers. In 2022, he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France. He is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College.

James Beard Award-winning author and baking legend Dorie Greenspan invites readers back into her warm, butter-scented kitchen with the release of her newest masterpiece: Dorie's Anytime Cakes (Harvest, October 21, 2025). Overflowing with easy, elegant, and irresistibly snackable cakes, this collection is a love letter to simple pleasures—offering cakes that are just as welcome at the breakfast table as they are on a holiday dessert tray.

Dorie Greenspan is a five-time James Beard Award-winning author, New York Times bestselling writer, and beloved baking authority known for infusing her recipes with equal parts precision, creativity, and heart. With fifteen acclaimed cookbooks to her name—including Baking with Dorie, Dorie’s Cookies, Around My French Table, Baking from My Home to Yours and the newly anticipated Dorie’s Anytime Cakes—Dorie has built a career out of transforming simple, everyday ingredients into magical moments.

A stunning photographic celebration of The Martha Graham Dance Company on its 100th anniversary, from Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, the creative team behind NYC Dance Project.

Ken Browar is a renowned fashion and editorial photographer. His passion for dance began when he lived in Paris and photographed dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet. Deborah Ory began her photography career while injured as a dancer, photographing rehearsals. She has worked as a photo editor at Condé Nast and Mirabella, and as an editorial photographer. Together, Browar and Ory are the creative team behind NYC Dance Project. Their work has been featured in newspapers and magazines worldwide including Harper’s Bazaar, Dior Magazine, New York Times, and many others. Their photographs have been exhibited at many galleries and museums worldwide and they have won two International Photography Awards for their books. They are the authors of two bestselling previous books, The Art of Movement and The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance.

A joyful romp through the singular and eclectic material world of a true New York character.

Kim Hastreiter is an artist, writer, editor, curator, and cultural anthropologist known for her pioneering work at the intersection of art, media, and culture. After earning her MFA at CalArts under mentor John Baldessari, she moved to New York, where she co-founded PAPER Magazine in 1984, which she ran until its sale in 2017. During the pandemic, she launched a free newspaper from Washington Square Park and began creating “Memezeens,” zines documenting radical meme art. She writes a weekly Substack newsletter exploring culture past, present, and future, and is working on her next book WORK, about thriving as a creative. Her latest book STUFF continues to evolve through various projects. She curates art shows, contributes to Apartamento Magazine, and has received honors including the CFDA Eugenia Shepard Award, Pratt Legend Award, and the 2025 Cooper Hewitt Design Visionary Award.

A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends.

Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was one of the The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. His novel Super Sad True Love Story won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and became one of the most iconic novels of the decade. His memoir, Little Failure, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His most recent novel is the New York Times bestseller Our Country Friends. His books have been published in thirty countries. He lives in New York with his wife and son.

An oversize, faux-leather-bound volume presenting a focused selection of Basquiat's energized depictions of heads and faces.

Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for over four decades as a publisher, collector, and artist-collaborator. An early supporter of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, he helped organize Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks (Brooklyn Museum, 2015) and served as a curatorial consultant for Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines at the National Gallery of Victoria. Warsh has loaned works from his collection to major exhibitions worldwide. He founded Museums Magazine and has edited numerous books for Princeton University Press, including the popular -isms series on Basquiat, Haring, Futura, Warhol, and others, as well as titles by Ai Weiwei. He also served on the Getty Museum Photographs Council and was a founding member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee (1993–2012).

The first biography in more than a quarter century—based on more than 100 interviews—adds significant new information to the story both of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life and to the extraordinary journey of his art.

Doug Woodham is the managing partner of Art Fiduciary Advisors, an NY-based firm focused on providing advice on the financial aspects of owning and selling fine art. He most recently served as president of the Americas for Christie’s and is the author of Art Collecting Today: Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art. He lives in New York with his wife and family.

Storyteller: Tales from a Fashion Insider weaves the incredible tapestry of Jeffrey Banks's life: a fashion designer who rose from Ralph Lauren intern to award-winning menswear creator and an acclaimed champion of diversity and classic American style.

Jeffrey Banks is a celebrated fashion designer. His personal taste and way of putting clothes together have earned him a consistent spot on the “International Best Dressed” list. Banks is also an accomplished author, having coauthored the following titles: Tartan: Romancing the Plaid, American Fashion Menswear, Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style, Perry Ellis: An American Original, Patricia Underwood: The Way You Wear Your Hat, and Norell: Master of American Style. This is his first memoir.

Explore New York’s vibrant vinyl scene with this tribute to 33 1/3 of the city’s favorite record shops, as captured by acclaimed photographers James and Karla Murray.

Spanning all 5 boroughs, these havens have become essential to the cultural fabric of the city, bringing together communities through a shared passion for music.

James T. and Karla L. Murray are husband-and-wife architectural and interior photographers based in Manhattan’s East Village. Their books include Great Bars of New York City and Store Front NYC. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world and featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, and the New Yorker.

In this enchantingly whimsical tale from Italy's great children's author, Gianni Rodari, a young onion named Cipollino sets out into the world to study scoundrels, and in so doing, he undoes the tyrannical Prince Lemon, while making a legion of friends along the way.

Dasha Tolstikova (The Adventures of Cipollino) is an author and illustrator who has been reading Gianni Rodari since infancy. Dasha credits Rodari’s Grammar of Fantasy as the book that steered her toward the kind of writer she wanted to be, while The Adventures of Cipollino made her the human she is today.

From award-winning illustrator Esmé Shapiro and debut talent Kate Finney comes the unforgettable story of Belladonna, a spunky, beautiful plant who must learn to survive—even though she can’t flee from those who want to devour her!

Kate Finney (Don’t Eat Me! The Almost True Story of Belladonna) grew up in the woods on the outskirts of Philadelphia. She is a recipient of Vassar’s Ann E. Imbrie Prize for Excellence in Fiction Writing. She and her partner split their time between an apartment in Brooklyn and an island in Maine.

Esmé Shapiro (Don’t Eat Me! The Almost True Story of Belladonna) grew up in Los Angeles, California and Ontario, Canada. Some of her previous books include Alma and the Beast, Carol and the Pickle-Toad, My Self Your Self, Roy Is Not a Dog, and Ooko, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award in 2016. She also illustrated Yak and Dove by Kyo Maclear, Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by Margaret McNamara, and A Garden of Creatures by Sheila Heti. Esmé lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, Daniel, and their two scruffy dogs.

From celebrated illustrator Giselle Potter, a beautiful and memorable story about the special bond between a grandparent and a grandchild.

Giselle Potter (Before She Was My Grandmother) is the award-winning illustrator of over thirty books for children, some written by herself and others by such authors as Toni Morrison, Mary Pope Osborne, Ursula Hegi, Matthea Harvey, and Gertrude Stein. She has also illustrated a column for the New York Times called “Ties.” She lives with her husband and two daughters in the Hudson Valley.

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