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Legal Thriller Explores Corruption In Brooklyn’s Criminal Justice System

October 5, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Woken in the middle of the night by a call from a panicked woman whose husband had just been arrested, Ken Williams, an African-American attorney […]

‘Start Without Me’ Gives Readers A Seat At The Table For Thanksgiving Dinner

October 5, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Start Without Me, is the latest novel from Brooklyn resident Joshua Max Feldman. The author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Book of Jonah, is […]

Latest In Mystery Series Is A World War II Thriller

November 10, 2016 BrooklynBookBeat 0

The Queens Accomplice (Bantam Trade Paperback), the sixth title in Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope mystery series, picks up where Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante left off. Set […]

DUMBO author’s new book explores one man’s search for meaning

April 12, 2016 BrooklynBookBeat 0

“The Yoga of Max’s Discontent,” a new book by DUMBO-based author Karan Bajaj (Riverhead, on sale May 3), is a layered novel that takes readers […]

Helen Simonson to read from ‘The Summer Before the War’ at BookCourt

March 16, 2016 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Helen Simonson, Brooklyn Heights resident and author of the New York Times bestselling debut novel “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand,” will be reading from her eagerly awaited second […]

Pick-up Brooklyn Playwright Richard Fulco’s New Novel ‘THERE IS NO END TO THIS SLOPE’

June 30, 2014 Kathryn Cardin 0

Although “There Is No End to This Slope” is his first novel, Richard Fulco is a veteran of the Brooklyn literary scene. Fulco received an MFA […]

New Novel Brings Coney Island to Life

May 30, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

From Crown Publishing Group Brooklyn Daily Eagle Park Slope writer Andrew Lewis Conn burst onto the literary scene in 2003 with his avant-garde novel “P.,” described in […]

The Art, and Empathy, of Brooklyn Author Leslie Jamison

May 1, 2014 Andriana Zacharakos 0

Article by Hillel Italie, Associated Press For Leslie Jamison, the written word is a safe and risky place. “So much of writing that has felt alive and electric is […]

This Week in 1892: Walt Whitman’s death, & his 1847 ‘Death in the School-room’ piece for the Brooklyn Eagle

March 26, 2014 Andriana Zacharakos 0

article by Andriana Zacharakos, Brooklyn Daily Eagle This week is one of literary mourning, as New York City marked the 122nd death anniversary of the […]

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New comedic, inventive novel reimagines Brooklyn

March 11, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Set in Brooklyn, Jeremy P. Bushnell’s “The Weirdness” (Melville House) is an electrifying debut novel that traces Billy Ridgeway as he adventures across New York […]

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Brooklyn author to release new crime novel

March 7, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Brooklyn-based author Shelly Reuben, whose books have been nominated for Edgar, Prometheus and Falcon awards, will soon release a new novel, “The Boys of Sabbath Street.” A […]

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Brooklyn author to launch adventure series

February 26, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

“The Blood Guard” (Two Lions/Amazon Children’s Publishing; March 4) by Carter Roy is a captivating and magical adventure that launches a brand new series for […]

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New novel restages classic ‘Rebecca’

February 3, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Author To Speak in Cobble Hill Famed author Meg Wolitzer described Rachel Pastan’s debut novel “This Side of Married” as “a wedding bouquet of great […]

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Joyce Carol Oates to speak in Brooklyn on Feb. 6

January 22, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Literary legend Joyce Carol Oates’s latest, “Carthage,” plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal, haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, […]

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Claire Messud to speak in DUMBO

January 17, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

The protagonist in esteemed writer Claire Messud’s latest novel, Nora Eldridge is a 37-year-old elementary school teacher who long ago abandoned her ambition to be an […]

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Brooklyn author releases finale to action-packed trilogy

January 15, 2014 BrooklynBookBeat 0

The Seven Swords have been retrieved. The gate to Avalon has been opened. The Round Table awaits. Now, the final stage of Artie Kingfisher’s quest […]

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Brooklyn Reading Works presents open mic for food writers in Park Slope

December 9, 2013 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Brooklyn Reading Works invites the public to come share a poem or story (fiction or non-fiction) about food (food as subject matter or metaphor) at […]

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Brooklyn Holiday Book Fair features vintage books and reading by Paul Auster

December 6, 2013 BrooklynBookBeat 0

For the second holiday season, Honey & Wax Booksellers will bring independent Brooklyn bookshops and antiquarian booksellers to fill Park Slope’s Old Stone House with […]

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Brooklynite’s ‘Truth in Advertising’ now out in paperback

October 16, 2013 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Brooklyn BookBeat: Author to speak in Bay Ridge   When we think of the advertising business, many of us conjure an outdated Mad Men-like scene, replete […]

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New NY-centric novel to launch in Brooklyn

October 15, 2013 BrooklynBookBeat 0

Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier […]

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  • Brooklyn resident taking advantage of the spring weather in February and reading “Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race” on her kindle in the sun ☀️
  • Michelle Young and Augustin Pasquet, founders of @untappedcities spoke to us about some of their favorite secret locations in Brooklyn. #secretbrooklyn
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  • A self portrait and art panels from the book “Killing and Dying” by cartoonist @adriantomine . Adrian will be in conversation with Jason Zinoman at Books Are Magic on Feb. 6th. #killinganddying 
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