Katy Tur, MSNBC star & best-selling author, recalls her Brooklyn beginnings
Jacket courtesy of Dey Street. Photos by Elena Seibert By Peter Stamelman Special to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Now a best-seller, the new book by…
St. Francis Colleges Welcomes Next Author In Walt Whitman Writers Series
St. Francis College proudly welcomes Ron Currie, author of The One-Eyed Man, as the next author to speak in the Walt Whitman Writers Series on Wednesday, October 25 at…
YA Novel Takes A Deeply Personal Look At Mental Illness
It’s hard enough to save someone who doesn’t want to be saved, but it’s another thing entirely when you’re only seventeen… and ‘someone’ is none…
Steamy Love Story Proves That Looks Can Be Deceiving
In Lady Be Bad, Brooklyn author, Megan Frampton returns with the consuming first installment in the new Duke’s Daughters series. Eleanor and her four younger sisters have…
Greenlight Hosts Musical Story Time For Hip-Hop’s Youngest Fans
From it’s underground roots in the Boogie Down Bronx to it’s chart-topping, mainstream success today, hip-hop has a rich and colorful history. In the follow-up to…
Legal Thriller Explores Corruption In Brooklyn’s Criminal Justice System
Woken in the middle of the night by a call from a panicked woman whose husband had just been arrested, Ken Williams, an African-American attorney…
‘Start Without Me’ Gives Readers A Seat At The Table For Thanksgiving Dinner
Start Without Me, is the latest novel from Brooklyn resident Joshua Max Feldman. The author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Book of Jonah, is…
New Children’s Book Deals With Middle School Jitters
Starting middle school can be a scary transition for anyone, but Abbie Wu is totally stressed out. In Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom (HarperCollins), young Abbie is…
Latest In Mystery Series Is A World War II Thriller
The Queens Accomplice (Bantam Trade Paperback), the sixth title in Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope mystery series, picks up where Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante left off. Set…
New Young Adult Novel Focuses On Teen Love And Loss
A New York Times Modern Love essay by journalist and author Lisa Selin Davis served as the inspiration for her young adult novel, Lost Stars…
New book offers insider’s view of Brooklyn
New York City and its five boroughs draw 54 million international and American tourists, including day-trippers, each year. And Brooklyn is booming: it has become…
Brooklyn-based author’s novel focuses on new beginnings, growth
Brooklyn-based author Nora Zelevansky’s new novel “Will You Won’t You Want Me?” (St. Martin’s Griffin) offers a satirical take on New York and Los Angeles…
New book ‘Jackie Robinson in Quotes’ details ‘The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player’
Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has noted recently, while doing the interview circuit to promote his new documentary on Jackie Robinson, “When Jackie broke the color barrier…
DUMBO author’s new book explores one man’s search for meaning
“The Yoga of Max’s Discontent,” a new book by DUMBO-based author Karan Bajaj (Riverhead, on sale May 3), is a layered novel that takes readers…
Helen Simonson to read from ‘The Summer Before the War’ at BookCourt
Helen Simonson, Brooklyn Heights resident and author of the New York Times bestselling debut novel “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand,” will be reading from her eagerly awaited second…
Books Beneath the Bridge Series Continues with Scenic Backdrop
Books and bridges have long been defining components of Brooklyn’s identity, characterizing this scenic literary hub. A consummate mix of some of the borough’s finest…
Brooklyn Writer Tackles America’s Debt Crisis in New Satire
Cobble Hill Book Launch Party Slated for July 20 “Anyone who’s ever had trouble making ends meet is going to find themselves in this story,”…
Pick-up Brooklyn Playwright Richard Fulco’s New Novel ‘THERE IS NO END TO THIS SLOPE’
Although “There Is No End to This Slope” is his first novel, Richard Fulco is a veteran of the Brooklyn literary scene. Fulco received an MFA…
Hundreds Pack Sedaris Reading At Cobble Hill Bookstore
by Samantha Samel, Brooklyn Daily Eagle “Write every day,” famed author David Sedaris told a jam-packed room of writers and readers at BookCourt in Cobble…
Brooklyn Bridge Park Announces ‘2014 Books Beneath the Bridge’ Series Line-Up
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (Conservancy) has announced the full lineup for its third annual Books Beneath the Bridge series. This free summer literary series, which features…