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 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 MultiMedia, Read Features, Read Multimedia, The Read, Video
Aryn Kyle’s debut novel, The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007) was an international bestseller and the winner of many awards. Listen to Aryn read at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights.
August 16, 2010 Franklin Park Reading Series, MultiMedia, The Read, 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 Franklin Park Reading Series, MultiMedia, The Read, Video
Your weekly listing of readings and literary events around Brooklyn: a comic artist lands at Desert Island, a funny girl from the Bronx stops in DUMBO, and runner-extraordinaire Christopher McDougall shares advice at WORD.
August 9, 2010 The Book Seen
Greenlight Books and Feminist Press staffer Natalie Peart recommends her favorite queer literature for summertime reading.
August 3, 2010 Queer Life, Read Features
An author’s debut book takes us behind the red curtain of Manhattan’s exclusive nightclubs, sports lovers get their literary fill at Gelf’s Varsity Letters, and Franklin Park brings us a night of Hilarity and Heartbreak — just a few of the book events happening this week in Brooklyn.
August 2, 2010 The Book Seen
Nowhere in Brooklyn is there a more foreign enclave than Brighton. Under the elevated tracks of the B and Q, caressed by sea breezes, the sidewalks of Brighton Beach Avenue vibrate with a cacophony of voices: the Russian of women hawking pastries, the English of sand-seeking day trippers, the hum of shoppers hailing from Omsk to Kiev.
Our weekly tip sheet on where to see what in the Brooklyn art world. This week’s featured listing is Klompching Gallery’s: “Phillip Toledano: A New Kind of Beauty,” opening Wednesday, September 8, 6-8pm. Click through to read more.
You decide! Are these famous folks tragic or groundbreaking? It’s up to debate. Each note-worthy figure is paired with an …
Your weekly listing of readings and literary events around Brooklyn: a comic artist lands at Desert Island, a funny girl from the Bronx stops in DUMBO, and runner-extraordinaire Christopher McDougall shares advice at WORD.
