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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

Posted On : August 3, 2020 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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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

Posted On : July 17, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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‘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

Posted On : November 13, 2018 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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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

Posted On : February 28, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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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

Posted On : January 26, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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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

Posted On : December 19, 2017 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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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

Posted On : December 14, 2017 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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