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New Book Hopes to Bridge the Generation Gap Between Boomers and Millennials

Millennials are often characterized as a spoiled, self-absorbed generation that can’t be bothered to look up from their screens to care about the rest of the world. But in her Continue Reading

Posted On : August 13, 2020 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Daily Bookmark: Akilah Hughes’s essay collection takes teen drama beyond the obvious

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

Posted On : September 5, 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: Visit Brooklyn’s favorite Superfund Site with Joseph Alexiou

Today the Gowanus Canal is a famously toxic waterbody, notorious for its contamination and for its possible role in the death of Sludgie the Whale, the young minke unfortunate enough Continue Reading

Posted On : July 23, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Jia Tolentino holds a funhouse mirror to millennials

Has there ever been an age demographic more maligned than this batch of avocado toast-munching, college-lecture-protesting, smartphone-addicted snowflakes? And what’s it like to be crowned the voice of such a Continue Reading

Posted On : July 12, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: “I Like to Watch” is a love letter to TV’s golden age

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum knows a thing or two about the joys of watching television. In “I like to watch,” her new Continue Reading

Posted On : July 10, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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  • Women Health

Brooklyn-born Midwife Gives Women A to Z Advice on Pregnancy and Parenting

There is an abundance of “advice” for pregnant and post-partum women on the internet—but what good has come from googling your worst-case-scenario fears? Written in the approachable and friendly tone Continue Reading

Posted On : April 26, 2019 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Brooklyn Author Explains What it Means to Worry — About Everything

Brooklyn resident Jen Epstein was born a worrier. As a child, she worried her uvula would break off and she would swallow it and choke to death. Then she worried Continue Reading

Posted On : November 6, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Photographer fights pit bull prejudice with book of portraits

Brooklyn resident Sophie Gamand’s much-anticipated “Pit Bull Flower Power” book will be published on Oct. 27 to coincide with Adopt a Shelter Dog Month and Pit Bull Awareness Month in Continue Reading

Posted On : October 11, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Emmy Award-winning Brooklyn resident shares insights on writing in new book

Writer Ron Hutchinson recently left California for the East Coast. He currently lives and writes in Brooklyn and says, “Over the past two years I have been participating in a Continue Reading

Posted On : March 26, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America

“It Occurs to Me That I Am America” is a collaboration of authors and artists born in response to the 2016 election. Two of the book’s contributors, Bliss Broyard and Continue Reading

Posted On : January 23, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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New Book Provides Historical Perspective On Jewish Culture In New York City

Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry, expanded its commercial reach, and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the Continue Reading

Posted On : November 8, 2017 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Katy Tur, MSNBC star & best-selling author, recalls her Brooklyn beginnings

Jacket courtesy of Dey Street. Photos by Elena Seibert By Peter Stamelman Special to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Now a best-seller, the new book by MSNBC anchor Katy Tur could not Continue Reading

Posted On : October 20, 2017 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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New book ‘Jackie Robinson in Quotes’ details ‘The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player’

Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has noted recently, while doing the interview circuit to promote his new documentary on Jackie Robinson, “When Jackie broke the color barrier in baseball, Martin Luther King Continue Reading

Posted On : April 13, 2016 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Brooklynite’s new cookbook features ‘Beans from Around the World’

In her new cookbook “Vegan Beans from Around the World,” Brooklyn-based pastry chef and cook Kelsey Kinser presents 75 adventurous recipes for nutritious and flavorful dishes that feature a key Continue Reading

Posted On : February 28, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Punk Musician, Writer To Speak in DUMBO

Richard Hell Launches Autobiography March 4 Musician, writer, and provocateur Richard Hell was at the center of the social and cultural upheaval of the 1970s that came to be called Continue Reading

Posted On : February 24, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Youth financial literacy expert to speak, sign books, in Brooklyn

In 2006, Brooklynite Ralph Baker was searching for a way to share his passion for investing with his 11-year-old son and his friends. Inspired by his own father, who had Continue Reading

Posted On : February 17, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Upcoming book talk to highlight Plymouth Church in Civil War Era

In connection with the Brooklyn Historical Society’s new exhibition, “Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom,” BHS, in partnership with Green-Wood, will host a book talk with Frank Decker to discuss his new book about Continue Reading

Posted On : February 5, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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  • Memoir
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A Last Good-bye

By Sandra Hurtes From “The Ambivalent Memoirist“ Manhattan is now my home. But today I look over my shoulder at the Brooklyn that raised me. I look into an obscure Continue Reading

Posted On : January 30, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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‘Tarpaper Dreams’ evokes historic Brooklyn

Memoirist Recalls Sister’s Job as Eagle Reporter Though she’s migrated to a small town in the Sierra Foothills, California, author Jean Humburg’s latest book, “Tarpaper Dreams,” is largely focused on Continue Reading

Posted On : January 28, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat

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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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