Thankfully YouTube has allowed our account to upload more than 15 minutes at a time because this is seriously a great video. Last but not least in our Book Fest video series this year came from the last and likely largest panel of the day featuring Dan Savage.
September 28, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Video
Towards the end of Brooklyn Book Fest we headed over to the Brooklyn Historical Society’s gorgeous old library for “Power to the People: Grassroots Revolution in the Post-Hope Era.”
September 25, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
In this video, Hayes takes a really long time just to tell us that OWS and the Tea Party have enough in common to be friends.
September 24, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Locals, The Read, Video
At this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival authors Baratunde Thurston, Rebecca Walker and Wesley Yang discussed “The Politics of Identity—Do They Still Matter?” moderated by Amitava Kumar.
September 24, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Author Jhumpa Lahiriwas was honored with a Bobi Award today at the 6th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival, for a body of work that exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn and has had a broad impact on the field of literature.
September 18, 2011 Authors Speak, Digital/Read, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Shelly Oria’s final contribution is about a man who wanted to be a better man—the kind of man who’s not a prisoner of his own anatomy, the kind of man who saves a life if he can, expecting nothing in return.
November 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, The Locals
Author Rick Moody appeared at the Franklin Park Reading series and read from his novel The Four Fingers of Death. Moody described the novel, narrated by one Montese Crandall, to the Washington Post as “a 900-page comic novel about a disembodied arm set in the desert in 2026.” Put off? Listen in here and find out where the narrator’s name originated.
November 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Video
Our guest contributor Shelly Oria’s third contribution is an essay about returning to Tel Aviv to visit her sister.
November 17, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, The Read
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he has brought us two extra chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the final installment.
November 16, 2010 Guest Authors
Our November guest contributor Shelly Oria is also a playwright, and has contributed this excerpt of her original work, Emma’s Undoing. Meet Sergey, Emma and Barco, and their Russian humor.
November 10, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, Theater
The following clips – it’s a long story, there are two – feature Jennifer Egan reading from her latest novel A Visit from the Goon Squad.
November 8, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, The Read, Video
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he will bring us the final two chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury.
November 3, 2010 Classic, Multi/Media, Photo, Read Features
Shelly Oria’s first contribution is Documentation, about a series of kisses.
November 2, 2010 Guest Authors
Shelly Oria reads “Fully Zipped” live in Crown Heights. Shelly’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Quarterly West, cream city review, and fivechapters among other places and she curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in Manhattan.
November 2, 2010 Authors Speak, Guest Author, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, Video
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the fourth chapter.
October 27, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the third chapter.
October 18, 2010 Guest Authors
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the second chapter.
October 13, 2010 Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the first chapter.
October 6, 2010 Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
This year’s 5th annual Book Festival at Borough Hall was a hit once again, despite the rainy weather, and we were fortunate enough to catch a lot of great authors. Watch our video for a taste of the fest.
September 13, 2010 Authors Speak, Digital/Read, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, Read Features, The Locals, The Read, Video
Elizabeth Streb is a special force. She has jumped through glass, set herself on fire and has undertaken the equally dangerous feat of writing a book, Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero, published by the Feminist Press in 2010. Owner of the performance company Streb and the S.L.A.M (Streb Lab for Action Mechanics) studio in Williamsburg, Streb will appear at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival.
September 10, 2010 Classic, Read Features
On the eve of Greenlight Bookstore’s one year anniversary – actually next month – Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting, the Fort Greene duo who founded the shop, are also set to ring in their first year at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On Friday from 7:30-9PM they’ll host one of the festival’s bookend events, The Brooklyn Indie Party, featuring locals like Melville House and Akashic’s own Johnny Temple, the night’s resident DJ along with music writer Dave Tompkins. We caught up with Jessica to talk birthdays and books.
September 10, 2010 Read Features
Intelligent, wry and hilarious writing make Kate Christensen a serious wordsmith and a PEN/Faulkner fiction award winner. Her titles include Trouble (Doubleday, 2009), The Great Man (Doubleday 2007), and The Epicure’s Lament (Anchor, 2005). Her characters, often set in Brooklyn, are fun to read and incredibly believable; her human portrayals of gay and lesbian characters is also a plus. She will appear at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival on the Me…In The World panel.
September 9, 2010 Classic, Read Features
T Cooper’s The Beaufort Diaries, released by Melville House in July, reads more like a grown-up picture book than a graphic novel. Cooper will appear at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival, on a panel titled How Things Shake Out.
September 9, 2010 Read Features
This year’s Brooklyn Book Festival on September 12 is bigger than ever with two days of “Bookend” events and all-star authors like Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, and Gary Shteyngart. We caught up with Johnny Temple, president of the Brooklyn Literary Council, to talk about Akashic Books, how music and literature connect, and who he’s most excited to see at the festival.
September 8, 2010 Classic, Read Features
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.
September 7, 2010 Classic, Read Features, Video
Aryn Kyle tells a great story about what it’s like to date another writer, especially around these parts. Aryn was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her debut novel, The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007) was an international bestseller.
August 16, 2010 Classic, Local/Readings, Video
Jon Friedman is a writer, comedian and producer living in Brooklyn and currently writing and blogging for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for which he won an Emmy. Watch as he shares rejected Late Night jokes with the crowd, and addresses a letter to his upcoming blind date.
August 11, 2010 Authors Speak, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Greenlight Books and Feminist Press staffer Natalie Peart recommends her favorite queer literature for summertime reading.
August 3, 2010 Classic, Queer Life, Read Features
In the acknowledgments of A Thread of Sky, I list several books that figured in my research. Here are eight more books that helped shape A Thread of Sky.
July 29, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors
In this excerpt from A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei, the family tour of China is half over, and Irene Shen is starting to give up the hope she’s harbored of finally reconnecting with her daughters, her sisters, and her mother in their ancestral home. Now, just when they arrive in the famed city of Hangzhou, said to be China’s most beautiful, they step off the tour bus into a torrential rainstorm.
July 23, 2010 Guest Authors
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