Fashion Week in Manhattan, a pennant race in the Bronx, apples and honey in the break room: fall in New York is manifest once again. But for the bookish across the five boroughs, the city’s true autumnal rite arrives this Sunday, September 12: the annual bibli-orgy at Brooklyn Borough Hall, the Brooklyn Book Festival.
That New Year’s Day of the Brooklyn literary scene, the Brooklyn Book Festival, is fast approaching. On September 12, myriad writers, readers, and other assorted bookfolk will descend once again on Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. In anticipation, we visited with author (most recently of Reset) and “Studio 360” host, Kurt Andersen.
Brooklynite Paul Dano loves to eat meat, but doesn’t want your milkshake. We caught up with the actor in advance of next week’s release of his new flick, The Extra Man, based on a novel by Jonathan Ames.
Egg creams have been the more or less official beverage of the borough for generations now—but like many of the hallmarks of Brooklyn culture, there’s been a recent renewal of interest as new blood moves in and stakes a claim to old mantles. We’ve got a round up the best spots to grab a glass of this frothy beverage.
Introducing The New Eight Million: A series of essays about becoming and living the existence of a New Yorker. We’re here to ask, what’s worth knowing about those who spend their lives in our fair city? Click through to learn more about how to submit your original non-fiction for this new series.
The ribbon cutting for Pier 1, the first section of Brooklyn Bridge Park to open, took place in the rain on Monday, March 22.
February, at least according to Hallmark, is the month of love. At BrooklynTheBorough.com, we’re willing to buy that, but we’re going to take a slightly more adult look at affairs of the heart. Enter Melissa Febos, author of the memoir Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press) out on March 2, which recalls her four years working at a midtown dungeon as a dominatrix. Publishers Weekly called it an “emotionally stark, excoriating work, [in which] Febos mines the darkest, most troubling aspects of human interaction.” Catch her reading, live, at the Franklin Park Reading Series on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Crown Heights.
