A blog about literary Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Growing up in the Red Hook projects, writer and middle school teacher Torrey Maldonado hated “boring books that seemed to dismiss him and where he was from.” Lucky for the Continue Reading
Kids now live in a world with endless devices competing for their eyeballs, with each app and game expertly engineered to capture their shorter and shorter attention spans. Given that, Continue Reading
Though Brooklyn-based writer Charlotte Nicole Davis set her debut YA novel in a fantasy Wild West empire called Arketta, the story has plenty of resonance with our current political reality. Continue Reading
“Tight” by Torrey Maldonado is a fast-paced novel for middle-grade readers, that emphasizes the importance of finding your own identity, choosing friends you can depend on, and the power of Continue Reading
It’s hard enough to save someone who doesn’t want to be saved, but it’s another thing entirely when you’re only seventeen… and ‘someone’ is none other than your mom. The Continue Reading