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 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
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
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
Local educator Zetta Elliot admitted early in her presentation at Franklin Park that she isn’t quite accustomed to late night readings at bars – usually she is presenting her work earlier in the day as an educator, in schools and libraries. However, she persevered and read an eloquent excerpt from her novel A Wish After Midnight (above), the tale of a young woman in Brooklyn transported back in time to the Civil War era. Ms. Elliot is a poet, essayist, playwright and the author of children’s books and is currently writing a sequel to A Wish After Midnight.
July 21, 2010 Authors Speak, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, Video
Rakesh Satyal, friend of BrooklynTheBorough.com and author of the novel Blue Boy (Kensington, 2009), recently won the Gay Debut Fiction Award at the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Upon being presented with the award, he broken into song – something that he’s well known for doing – and this time he caught the attention of the New Yorker. We caught up with the Fort Greene-based author about the award, his speech and what’s in store for a potential second, musical career path.
June 24, 2010 Authors Speak, Classic, Local/Readings, Queer News, Read Features, Video
Writer Heather Kristin reads a story only a native could tell, live in Crown Heights in 2010. Besides being a native of this fair city, Heather is a memoirist, novelist, playwright, violinist, composer, ex-actress, former subway performer, and mom.
June 2, 2010 Authors Speak, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Author David Goodwillie reads from his novel American Subversive at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights.
May 11, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Storyteller Ryan Britt at the Franklin Park Reading Series on April 12, 2010.
April 21, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
In the video enclosed author Mary Gaitskill reads “The Astral Plane Nail and Waxing Salon” at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights. This fictional story about Ashley Dupre and Silda Wall, Elliot Spitzer’s tryst and wife respectively, originally appeared in New York Magazine last fall and deals – intensely – with the dichotomy of Eve and Lilith. The tale features cameos by Elizabeth and John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. It’s a long one – three parts – but we’re sure you’ll enjoy the ride.
April 15, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, VideoStephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby and The Adderall Diaries, reads at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn.
April 1, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine and writes fiction primarily and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and the Washington Post. Here, he reads a short story called Debt.
March 22, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Marie Claire blogger Maura Kelly tells the story of her year living flirtatiously at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn on March 8, 2010.
March 15, 2010 Authors Speak, Classic, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Matthue Roth is the author, most recently, of Losers, a geek-punk novel about Russian Jewish immigrant hackers, and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go. Here he reads a poem called “Good Thing I Don’t Touch Girls Or I’d Touch You” at at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights.
March 9, 2010 Authors Speak, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press), which recalls her four years working at a midtown dungeon as a dominatrix. Her writing has been featured in The Southeast Review, Redivider, The Rambler, Storyscape Journal, and Bitch Magazine, among others. She co-curates and hosts the Mixer Reading and Music Series at Cake Shop, teaches at SUNY Purchase College, The Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and New York University, and hangs her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in Brooklyn. Watch and listen as she reads live from her memoir.
February 9, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, Multi/Media, The Read, VideoWelcome to our newest literary feature, Live From the Franklin Park Reading Series. Our first installment of video from this series, which runs the first Monday of the month at Franklin Park in Crown Heights, features storyteller Jake Goldman, and the (very) amusing tale of how he used his screenplay writing degree (read: useless) working for a (ahem) new media company here in New York. Mr. Goldman is co-host of True Tales of College, a monthly storytelling series that was highlighted in the New York Times. We’ll feature one local reading from this series per week, so get excited, and join us live the second Monday of the month for a comforting beverage and some great stories.
January 26, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Last night Amy Sohn crossed Brooklyn’s psychic divider – Flatbush Avenue – into Crown Heights. At Franklin Park’s Reading Series, the Park Slope maven read from her book Prospect Park West, which has caused a stir among the swanky slope set.
After reading a passage from her novel that takes place at Southpaw – whose investors also own Franklin Park – she read a passage that references a character’s fixation on Roman Polanski, which was written and released before the 76 year-old director was jailed recently on a 30 year old charge of statutory rape. Sohn made sure the crowd knew she doesn’t share that fixation with her character. Watch the video after the jump.
November 17, 2009 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
The unofficial present-day Bard of Brooklyn stopped by Greenlight Bookstore last night to christen the borough’s newest independent bookshop. Jonathan Lethem, author of such notable Brooklyn titles as Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude, read a portion of his new Manhattan-based novel, Chronic City, to a packed house as latecomers squeezed through the door like rush-hour riders on the 4 train. Watch our exclusive video from the event after the jump.
November 6, 2009 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
“Great reporting and great journalism have always been the exception to the rule,” Carl Bernstein said after a screening of All The President’s Men at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday night. For more of the discussion, click through to watch a short video clip.
September 14, 2009 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Culture, Film, Multi/Media, Video
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