Meta Lab just opened its first-ever East Coast flagship on Fifth Avenue<\/a><\/p>\nInstead of browsing shelves, visitors will explore stories through physical \u201cstory tiles,\u201d a hands-on system that\u00a0is more akin to crate-digging at a record store than scrolling through a list on one’s phone.\u00a0After making your choice, settle into one\u00a0of seven distinct listening spaces, each designed\u00a0for different moods and formats.<\/p>\n
And be prepared to give your old earbuds the side eye, because the pop-up will feature\u00a0high-end audio powered by Dolby Atmos, alongside premium listening setups\u00a0with\u00a0Sony headphones.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Audible Story House isn\u2019t just about listening. Throughout\u00a0the month, the space will host a full slate of programming, from book clubs and hands-on crafting sessions to premiere events; some are free, some are ticketed events. It\u2019s an attempt to reimagine what a bookstore can be at a moment when\u00a0how we consume content\u00a0is evolving across formats.<\/p>\n
Don’t worry\u2014there’s also a food component. Brooklyn favorite Land to Sea will run a pop-up cafe to keep readers (listeners?) fueled.<\/p>\n
The pop-up will be open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11am to 7pm, through May 31. Admission is free, and so is the listening\u2014making it an easy drop-in whether you\u2019re an audiobook devotee or just curious about the future of storytelling.<\/p>\n
In a city that\u2019s always looking for the next new thing, Audible Story House feels like a natural experiment: part retail concept, part cultural space, part tech showcase. Whether it\u2019s a glimpse of what bookstores might become or simply a clever one-off, it\u2019s a reminder that in New York City, even the oldest forms of storytelling\u00a0are looking to stay current.<\/p>\n
For more information and a full lineup of events, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be no new book smell\u00a0when\u00a0Audible opens Audible Story House on May 1, bringing a first-of-its-kind \u201cbookless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1739,9,2529,56,63,65,64,904],"class_list":{"0":"post-204949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news-events-festivals","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}