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See rare photographs, drawings in illustrated version of Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’

October 31, 2018August 9, 2019 BrooklynBookBeat

First published in 2010, “Just Kids” by Patti Smith became an instant classic. The iconic book, winner of the National Book Award and number four

Featured Historical Fiction History Q&A

Matthew Goodman, Brooklyn’s Narrative Historian

December 7, 2017August 8, 2019 Natasha Soto

If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful. -Chapter 11, The Sun and the Moon In 1835, nine out of ten New Yorkers

Featured Profiles

The Independent Bookstore Revival In Brooklyn

November 9, 2017December 7, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat

By Natasha Soto Special to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle If forecasts had been correct, the independent bookstore would have been dead by now. First, they

Featured Fiction YA

YA Novel Takes A Deeply Personal Look At Mental Illness

October 17, 2017December 7, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat

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

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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