Brooklyn BookBeat: New book explores daily routines of 161 masterminds Most of us know what made Beethoven and Charles Darwin famous. Most of us can recognize at least a couple of Andy Warhol’s works, and can probably name a Jane Austen novel. But most of us know very little about the daily routines of these […]
A tall, imposing, and superbly attired older man attends an engagement party in 1963 in Far Hills, New Jersey. There he grasps the hand of the groom-to-be, thanking him for the invitation to the festivities, acknowledging that the party is the first time he has “been in society” since his “troubles” began. The young man […]
Brooklyn Author Sells Books on Subway with Quirky Sales Pitch In the age of all things digital, fewer and fewer people are going to bookstores to buy books and it is becoming increasingly difficult for authors to connect to their readers. But according to Brooklyn Eagle, Stephen Witt, the Brooklyn-based author of “American Moses” and […]
From Vintage and Anchor Books/Random House From one of this generation’s most talked about, controversial, and hardest working young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug-induced depression, marriage, and death. Combining Bret Easton Ellis’s reckless characters with Siddhartha’s continually unsuccessful, earnest attempts at some kind of transcendence, “Taipei” by Tao Lin is an ode […]
“Maps are the places where memories go not to die, or be pinned, but to live forever.” —Adam Gopnik Brooklyn Eagle recently featured Becky Cooper, who — armed with hundreds of blank maps that had been painstakingly printed by hand — walked Manhattan from end to end, asking strangers to map their city and mail […]
According to Brooklyn Eagle, Amity Shlaes, the best-selling author and sage – though without the grey beard – of the world where politics, policy and economics collide, spoke in person earlier this week to her friends and neighbors in Brooklyn Heights. She’s been on the national book-tour circuit plugging her latest bestseller, “Coolidge,” telling […]