A blog about literary Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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