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Daily Bookmark: “Red at the Bone” by Jacqueline Woodson is a family drama with a Brooklyn setting

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

Posted On : September 4, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Coney Island is the site of romantic unfolding in new novel

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

Posted On : August 30, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Brooklyn journalist tells love-hate story of NYC’s Italian and Irish immigrants

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

Posted On : August 27, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: “Permanent Record” is a whirlwind YA romance for the Instagram era

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

Posted On : August 23, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Unfathomable terror awaits in Cold War horror novel

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

Posted On : August 22, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: “Overthrow” unmasks the counterculture of the digital age

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

Posted On : August 21, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Youthful idealism meets war-torn reality in “A Door in the Earth”

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

Posted On : August 20, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Want to read more classics? Join the (book) club!

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

Posted On : August 13, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Kristin Fields shines her light on the healing power of art

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

Posted On : August 12, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Hungry for some music history? Ian King is serving it up

Since rock ‘n’ roll took America’s radio waves and bandstands by storm over sixty years ago, the genre has spawned more than 200 sub-genres. But how do those ever-evolving categories Continue Reading

Posted On : August 9, 2019 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Daily Bookmark: Celebrate a black BK biking legend with “The World’s Fastest Man”

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

Posted On : August 8, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Dig into a startling exposé on the American food industry

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

Posted On : August 7, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: German Brooklynite reckons with identity and genocide in vivid color

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

Posted On : August 6, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Brooklyn writer brings humor and heart to life with OCD

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

Posted On : August 2, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Brooklyn pastor has marching orders for America’s whitest church

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

Posted On : July 31, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Red Hook teacher pens YA novel about staying soft in a hard world

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

Posted On : July 31, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: “Westside” is a dystopian NYC mystery with a dash of the supernatural

How would you like to wander around Jazz Age New York, smoking in a trench coat and rubbing elbows with bootleggers, Avant Garde poets and corrupt politicians? Unfortunately time travel Continue Reading

Posted On : July 30, 2019 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Daily Bookmark: Looking back: “The Fortress of Solitude” is a coming-of-age allegory for an ageless borough

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

Posted On : July 29, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Salman Rushdie to launch “Quichotte!” at the Center for Fiction

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

Posted On : July 26, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: “Another Brooklyn” is already a classic of Brooklyn literature

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

Posted On : July 24, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson

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Brooklyn Book Beat is Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s blog devoted to all things literary — books, authors, history, and associated events.

The Eagle, once edited by Walt Whitman, has long been covering Brooklyn news and events, but this blog serves as a special haven for bookworms. BookBeat features Brooklyn-based writers, as well as stories relating to the city and its history.

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