Essay Collection Depicts Midwestern Ideas of Gender and Class
Whether we choose to stay close to home or move miles away, there’s no denying that where we grow up has a major impact on shaping who we are. TOMBOYLAND: Continue Reading
Daily Bookmark: “Nobody’s Victim” is a #MeToo battle cry from the courtroom
At Carrie Goldberg’s victims’ rights law firm in Brooklyn, there are four types of offenders she confronts again and again: assholes, psychos, pervs and trolls. In “Nobodys Victim,” on sale Continue Reading
‘In the Shadow of Genius’ explores the minds behind the Brooklyn Bridge
“The word ‘genius’ is used so indiscriminately in our culture that its meaning, even when applied to such masterworks as the Brooklyn Bridge, has become completely diminished,” says photographer Barbara Continue Reading
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
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
In Conversation with Author of New Feminist Handbook
“The 2016 presidential election felt, in some ways, like a referendum on the value of women (and people of color and immigrants and refugees and Muslims … the list goes Continue Reading
Book Launch at BAM: Dave Eggers in conversation with Mokhtar Alkhanshali
As part of the “Unbound: A Book Launch Series with BAM and Greenlight Bookstore,” author Dave Eggers will be in conversation with the remarkable man who inspired his latest Continue Reading
An English Breakfast at The River Café With Alex Prud’homme
Brooklynite Alex Prud’homme is a man who deals with what one might call “glorious basics of life: water and food”. At a recent breakfast at The River Café, overlooking one Continue Reading
A Literary Magazine Grows in Brooklyn
American Chordata began as a passion project for its editors, founded in Spring 2015 on the belief that a literary magazine can celebrate sophisticated design and earnest expression on the Continue Reading