A blog about literary Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Think of Roosevelt Island today and you may think of the waterfront promenade, or the bright red car of the aerial tramway connecting the island to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Continue Reading
Keeping up on the trendiest titles is a fun way to read, but rounding out your literary diet with the so-called Great Works of Fiction can also be a rewarding Continue Reading
Books for many of us are an escape. Here’s one that explores the nature of escape itself — why we need it in the first place, and how we begin Continue Reading
Twelve years before Jack Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champ and fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the MLB’s color barrier, Marshall “Major” Taylor started setting Continue Reading
From factory farms, to pesticides, to chemical-leeching packaging, the way we eat has changed dramatically since the industrial revolution — and not entirely for the better. With obesity and associated Continue Reading
From her early childhood in 1980s Germany, there were dark corners to illustrator Nora Krug’s family history that she knew not to probe, and one burning question she knew better Continue Reading
We all have our irrational fears, tics and anxieties. We don’t all feel trapped in a mental prison, destined to a life spent looping through our brain’s darkest film reels. Continue Reading
Nationwide, religious headlines focus on a dwindling and ever-more elderly church-going population. Many Christian communities attribute the shift to a spike in agnosticism, or the disintegration of traditional family values. Continue Reading
Growing up in the Red Hook projects, writer and middle school teacher Torrey Maldonado hated “boring books that seemed to dismiss him and where he was from.” Lucky for the Continue Reading
If you’d like to read a somewhat autobiographical work of fiction that also dives into the social and political ills of 1970s Brooklyn, you can’t do much better than Jonathan Continue Reading
If you’d like to sit in the presence of an award-winning author and knight who’s also the subject of an Islamic fatwa calling for his assassination, don’t miss your chance: Continue Reading
There are a few iconic Brooklyn books that manage to capture something unique to the era they were written, as well as the aspects of Brooklyn life that never change. Continue Reading
Today the Gowanus Canal is a famously toxic waterbody, notorious for its contamination and for its possible role in the death of Sludgie the Whale, the young minke unfortunate enough Continue Reading
Kids now live in a world with endless devices competing for their eyeballs, with each app and game expertly engineered to capture their shorter and shorter attention spans. Given that, Continue Reading
When writer R.D. Rosen became curious about his childhood neighbor Sid Luckman, a Hall of Fame Quarterback for the Chicago Bears, he was hoping to uncover an interesting sports story, Continue Reading
At Carrie Goldberg’s victims’ rights law firm in Brooklyn, there are four types of offenders she confronts again and again: assholes, psychos, pervs and trolls. In “Nobodys Victim,” on sale Continue Reading
Waking up to the news you’ve just inherited a valuable piece of real estate from a distant in-law is the stuff of dreams. How about a ready-made creative career that’s Continue Reading
Though Brooklyn-based writer Charlotte Nicole Davis set her debut YA novel in a fantasy Wild West empire called Arketta, the story has plenty of resonance with our current political reality. Continue Reading
Has there ever been an age demographic more maligned than this batch of avocado toast-munching, college-lecture-protesting, smartphone-addicted snowflakes? And what’s it like to be crowned the voice of such a Continue Reading
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum knows a thing or two about the joys of watching television. In “I like to watch,” her new Continue Reading