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.
A crew of fantastic queer creatives is set to launch Salacious Magazine and it’s a lot of work. From soft to hardcore, the titillating first edition features artists from all walks of life that rouse and entertain. I quizzed founder, editor and comic artist Katie (Megaphone) Diamond, 25, about her motivations for Salacious and got the low down.
Shelly Oria’s final contribution this month 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.
Author Rick Moody appeared at the Franklin Park Reading series in November and read from his latest novel The Four Fingers of Death.
Our guest contributor Shelly Oria’s third contribution is an essay about returning to Tel Aviv to visit her sister.
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.
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.
