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Essays Nonfiction

Essay Collection Depicts Midwestern Ideas of Gender and Class

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 BrooklynBookBeat

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

Crime Daily Bookmark Nonfiction

Daily Bookmark: “Nobody’s Victim” is a #MeToo battle cry from the courtroom

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Alex Williamson

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.

Art History Nonfiction

‘In the Shadow of Genius’ explores the minds behind the Brooklyn Bridge

November 13, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

“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

Memoir Non-fiction Nonfiction

Brooklyn Author Explains What it Means to Worry — About Everything

November 6, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

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

Art Non-fiction Nonfiction

Photographer fights pit bull prejudice with book of portraits

October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

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

Feminism Nonfiction Political Activism

In Conversation with Author of New Feminist Handbook

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

“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

Nonfiction

Book Launch at BAM: Dave Eggers in conversation with Mokhtar Alkhanshali

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

  As part of the “Unbound: A Book Launch Series with BAM and Greenlight Bookstore,” author Dave Eggers will be in conversation with the remarkable

Nonfiction

An English Breakfast at The River Café With Alex Prud’homme

December 19, 2017December 26, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat

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

Art Events Fiction Literary Magazine Nonfiction Poetry

A Literary Magazine Grows in Brooklyn

December 14, 2017December 15, 2017 BrooklynBookBeat

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

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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