A blog about literary Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
In collaboration with the Poetry Project, PEN America will present its 2019 Prison Writing Awards Anthology at St. Marks Church on Sept. 18. The evening will feature exceptional work from Continue Reading
Doesn’t that just have a nice ring to it? If you’d like to get up early, get some exercise and celebrate Brooklyn’s most beloved poet (not to mention the erstwhile Continue Reading
The Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair took over the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint this past weekend, overflowing the 60,000-square-foot venue with curators, book dealers, pulpy paperbacks, rare editions and retro Continue Reading
As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, fans of Brooklyn’s best-known poet and erstwhile Eagle editor Walt Whitman are invited to bring their flashlights, a sturdy pair of shoes and Continue Reading
As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, authors Nicole Dennis-Brown (“Patsy”), Casey Gerald (“There Will Be No Miracles Here”), and T Kira Madden (“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls”) Continue Reading
Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian and YouTuber who’s worked for Comedy Central, HBO and Pod Save America. But the 30-year-old former Brooklyn resident knows what it’s like to grow Continue Reading
National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson is back on the Brooklyn beat with a new novel about family, social class, gentrification and identity. The “Another Brooklyn” author’s latest is “Red Continue Reading
As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, a panel of big-name writers will convene at Books are Magic in Cobble Hill to discuss their work. Specifically, they’ll be delving into Continue Reading
What better place to end a torrid, years-long extramarital affair than Coney Island in the winter, a neglected landscape of forgotten amusements, tinged with the residue of warmer days? In Continue Reading
In the run up to this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival (Sept. 21 & 22), a series of literary “bookend” events are slated to take place at bookish spaces around the Continue Reading
Peruse vintage literary ephemera, listen in on fascinating lectures and take home the rare book of your dreams at the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, returning to Greenpoint for its sixth Continue Reading
In the churches, schools and streets of New York’s poorest neighborhoods, two of the city’s largest communities clashed violently for decades — the Irish and Italian immigrants who came over Continue Reading
Pablo Rind is a lonely kid, barely eking out a living at the twenty-four-hour bodega in Brooklyn where he works the overnight shift. Leanna Smart is an ascending pop star, Continue Reading
What could be more frightening than finding yourself trapped in close quarters with a menacing figure who wants you dead? How about doing so while on a nuclear submarine, conducting Continue Reading
A group of young friends begins experimenting with tarot cards, honing their powers toward a form of radical empathy they hope will one day build a peaceful utopia. Pretty soon Continue Reading
Brooklyn-based journalist and author Amy Waldman spent eight years as a reporter for the New York Times, where she wrote about the aftermath of 9/11 and covered the war in Continue Reading
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