Legal Thriller Explores Corruption In Brooklyn’s Criminal Justice System
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 […]
Fiction
‘Start Without Me’ Gives Readers A Seat At The Table For Thanksgiving Dinner
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
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
“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
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’
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
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
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
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 […]
New comedic, inventive novel reimagines Brooklyn
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 […]
Brooklyn author to release new crime novel
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 […]
Brooklyn author to launch adventure series
“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 […]
New novel restages classic ‘Rebecca’
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 […]
Joyce Carol Oates to speak in Brooklyn on Feb. 6
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, […]
Claire Messud to speak in DUMBO
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 […]
Brooklyn author releases finale to action-packed trilogy
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 […]
Brooklyn Reading Works presents open mic for food writers in Park Slope
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 […]
Brooklyn Holiday Book Fair features vintage books and reading by Paul Auster
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 […]
Brooklynite’s ‘Truth in Advertising’ now out in paperback
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 […]
New NY-centric novel to launch in Brooklyn
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 […]