Skip to content

Brooklyn Book News

Exclusive
3 months agoBAM’s Karen Brooks Hopkins: Riveting New Book, Star-Studded Photo Gallery of Performing Arts Project 9 months agoThe Center for Fiction Reopens With a Standout Season of Literary Programming 10 months agoBook Suggests That When It Comes to COVID-19, Cuomo Got It Wrong 10 months agoFlatiron Books Q&A: Chloe Shaw, Origins of WHAT IS A DOG? 2 years agoPodcast Hosts Share Their Experiences Living By Self-Help Books
Friday, May 20, 2022
Brooklyn Book Beat

A blog about literary Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Primary Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Daily Bookmark
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Category: Events

  • Home
  • Events
Category:
  • Events
  • History

Brooklyn: The Once and Future City | Book Review

With “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City,” author and Brooklyn native Thomas Campanella has written the unqualified best and most thorough history of our city-turned-borough. He will talk about it Continue Reading

Posted On : November 6, 2019 Published By : John B. Manbeck
Category:
  • Comic/Graphic Novel
  • Daily Bookmark
  • Events

Daily Bookmark: Brooklynite pens book about ultimate Queens hero: Spider-Man

Call him amazing. Call him spectacular. Either way, Spider-Man finally has a book worthy of his rich history. After extensive research, Brooklynite Matt Singer has released a book that includes Continue Reading

Posted On : October 31, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Culture
  • Events
  • Fiction

Zeruya Shalev to launch highly-anticipated new novel at Greenlight Bookstore

In “PAIN,” on sale Nov. 5 from Other Press, Israeli writer Zeruya Shalev lays out the destructive power of infidelity and obsession in searing detail, as one woman struggles between Continue Reading

Posted On : October 30, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Culture
  • Events

Well-Read Black Girl Fest Coming to Brooklyn

The Well-Read Black Girl Book Club is a Brooklyn-born club that has spread nationwide, created by and for black women who are passionate about books. WRBG’s goal is to showcase Continue Reading

Posted On : October 28, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Spooky Brooklyn Campfire Stories at Center for Fiction

Think you’ve got what it takes to entertain a spooky story-loving crowd with a tall tale, song, rap or rhyme? Then visit the Center for Fiction for Brooklyn Campfire Stories Continue Reading

Posted On : October 11, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

PEN America presents Lit Crawl NYC 2019

PEN America has a calendar packed with literary events in store for Brooklynites this weekend. Lit Crawl NYC is happening this Saturday at Cobble Hill businesses ranging from bookstores, to Continue Reading

Posted On : October 8, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Children's
  • Events

Author Panel: Empowering Children Through Books

Three authors who specialize in books that inspire and empower children will take part in a panel at Books are Magic in Cobble Hill Sept. 30. Chana Ginelle Ewing, Arabelle Continue Reading

Posted On : September 27, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

The Brooklyn Book Fest is Here!

The borough’s largest literary event is happening this weekend. The Brooklyn Book Fest will showcase nearly 300 authors, a lively Children’s Day, panel discussions and over 250 booksellers in a Continue Reading

Posted On : September 20, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Anxious in Public: Comics dish about real-life tough stuff

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, three cartoonists with legions of online fans will take the stage at St. Francis College on Sunday to discuss how they’ve used their Continue Reading

Posted On : September 19, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Book fest spotlight: Brooklyn the Philosophical panel

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, a panel of philosophy-loving, Brooklyn-based braniacs will convene at the Barnes and Noble on Court Street to discuss the borough as a breeding Continue Reading

Posted On : September 18, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Book fest spotlight: Storytellers tackle climate change

As part of the Brooklyn book festival, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Guernica magazine will present a panel of writers and journalists to discuss the storyteller’s role in addressing Continue Reading

Posted On : September 17, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events
  • Sci-Fi

Book fest spotlight: Transnational Sci Fi: A Border-Crossing, Otherworldly Reading

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, Sci Fi authors Alice Sola Kim and Nur Nasreem Ibrahim will meet at the Asian Writers’ Workshop to discuss two groundbreaking international Sci Continue Reading

Posted On : September 16, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events
  • Fiction

Bookfest Spotlight: Susan Choi & Meg Wolitzer in conversation

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi will take the stage with bestselling author Meg Wolitzer at St. Francis College Sept. 22. The writers will Continue Reading

Posted On : September 13, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Book fest spotlight: PEN America Prison Writing Awards

In collaboration with the Poetry Project, PEN America will present its 2019 Prison Writing Awards Anthology at St. Marks Church on Sept. 18. The evening will feature exceptional work from Continue Reading

Posted On : September 12, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Book fest spotlight: Whitman in canoes on the Gowanus at dawn

Doesn’t that just have a nice ring to it? If you’d like to get up early, get some exercise and celebrate Brooklyn’s most beloved poet (not to mention the erstwhile Continue Reading

Posted On : September 11, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Highlights from the 2019 Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

The Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair took over the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint this past weekend, overflowing the 60,000-square-foot venue with curators, book dealers, pulpy paperbacks, rare editions and retro Continue Reading

Posted On : September 10, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Book fest spotlight: Explore Whitman’s dark side with Whitman After Dark

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, fans of Brooklyn’s best-known poet and erstwhile Eagle editor Walt Whitman are invited to bring their flashlights, a sturdy pair of shoes and Continue Reading

Posted On : September 9, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Events

Book fest spotlight: Come on out for a coming-out talk with BAM

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, authors Nicole Dennis-Brown (“Patsy”), Casey Gerald (“There Will Be No Miracles Here”), and T Kira Madden (“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls”) Continue Reading

Posted On : September 6, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
Category:
  • Daily Bookmark
  • Events
  • Non-fiction

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
Category:
  • Events

Book Fest Spotlight: Panel on love & desire

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, a panel of big-name writers will convene at Books are Magic in Cobble Hill to discuss their work. Specifically, they’ll be delving into Continue Reading

Posted On : September 3, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson

Posts navigation

Older posts

Buzzing On Book Beat

  • Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book Dares Young Girls to Dream
  • Author Panel: Empowering Children Through Books
  • Children’s Book Encourages Kids To Be Hands On
  • Latest installment in popular children’s book series to be released
  • Moving Children’s Book Tours Brooklyn

Posts

May 2022
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Feb    

Older Posts

Tags

19C (1) 19th century (1) art (2) arts (1) biography (1) BookCourt (2) book culture (3) books (8) bookworms (1) Brooklyn (16) brooklyn eagle (4) children (1) classis (1) Cobble Hill (2) culture (2) death (1) discussion (1) downtown brooklyn (3) DUMBO (2) Events (5) Fiction (4) History (2) homosexuality (1) lit (1) literature (10) modern literature (3) mystery (3) new book (1) newspaper (1) new york (6) new york city (10) nineteenth century (1) novel (2) nyc (8) photography (2) read (2) reading (5) short stories (1) streetart (1) waltwhitman (1) walt whitman (1) whitman (1) williamsburg (1) women (1) World War II (2)

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.

Copyright © 2019 EBrooklyn Media. All rights reserved.
Theme: Royal Magazine by ThemeinWP