A blog about literary Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
In Melissa Rivero’s urgent, stunning debut, THE AFFAIRS OF THE FALCÓNS: A Novel, the immigrant experience is illustrated in deeply human and strikingly personal detail. Ana and her husband, Lucho, along Continue Reading
All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. In Kris Waldherr’s captivating debut novel, The Lost History of Dreams, a post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may Continue Reading
There is an abundance of “advice” for pregnant and post-partum women on the internet—but what good has come from googling your worst-case-scenario fears? Written in the approachable and friendly tone Continue Reading
The sign of a good children’s book is one that kids want to read again and again, and that parents don’t mind reading again and again. If you’ve read Dragons Love Continue Reading
In 2009, Lindsay Bach was a recent college grad with a great magazine job and a group of hard-partying friends who used a Bushwick loft as the setting for their Continue Reading