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Original Storytelling: The Final Straw by Shelly Oria

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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
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: A Stroll Down Pitkin Avenue

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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
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Documentation

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Shelly Oria’s first contribution is Documentation, about a series of kisses.

November 2, 2010 Guest Authors
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: Back To Brownsville

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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
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Fortnight Journal’s New Media Millennials

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Fortnight Journal is a new web project that documents the promise of the millennial generation. On November 11, 2010 BrooklynTheBorough.com will partner with Southpaw to host a benefit performance to raise money for the project featuring rising Brooklyn singer Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, local rockers Outernational and the legendery Ms.Smtih with guitarist Lenny Kaye.

October 21, 2010 Classic, Culture, Fortnight Journal, In Brooklyn, The People
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: Writer’s Block

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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
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: The Critique

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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
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Graphic Novelist Martin Lemelman Illustrates His Brooklyn Boyhood

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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
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ASK ALLISON: On Getting The F@#k Out of the Way

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We proudly present our new advice series: ASK ALLISON! You send questions to our favorite Riot Grrrl Allison Wolfe, and she’ll serve you up an eye-opening, ear-bending dish of honesty. Trust us – she’s going to make you a better person. In this inaugural edition, Allison deals with the time honored tradition of telling folks to get the f@#k out of the way.

September 14, 2010 Allison Wolfe, Classic
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Sarah Silverman Gets Distracted from Writing by her Bed

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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
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Author and Adventurer Elizabeth Streb is a Modern Day Action Hero

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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
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Go Greenlight Go! Bookstore Celebrates First Anniversary

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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
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The Great Woman: Kate Christensen on Good Girls, Gay Men and Books to Read

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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
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Graphic Parallels: T Cooper on ‘How Things Shake Out’ at Book Fest

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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
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Keeping Your (Local) Cool: Kurt Andersen on Book Fest 2010

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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
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A Brooklynite’s Guide to Queer Literature

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Greenlight Books and Feminist Press staffer Natalie Peart recommends her favorite queer literature for summertime reading.

August 3, 2010 Classic, Queer Life, Read Features

Dispatches From The Cafe: Writing A Book in Brooklyn

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Like many denizens of our prolific borough, I wrote much of my novel in neighborhood coffee shops. Here are the cafes that should have received my acknowledgment.

July 8, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors
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Gaga at the Gala: Rakesh Satyal Wins Lambda Literary Award, Sings About It

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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
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The Brooklyn Waterfront Circa 1948: A Cesspool of Crime

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On this particular Thursday in April, 1948, City editor Ed Bartnett read a report of an incident in northern Manhattan from that morning that he thought echoed a similar crime related to the waterfront in the West Village the year before. If handled by the right reporter, an investigation might get at the possible links and wider causes of these dock wars. Mike Johnson got his hat.

June 17, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors
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Book It! Get Ready for the Biggest Brooklyn Book Festival

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The 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on Sunday, September 12. Big-name authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Harding, Dennis Lehane and Jonathan Lethem will read and take part in panel discussions. This year, the festival has expanded and will include new, special events. Click through for details.

June 3, 2010 Read Features
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Nathan Ward on Life on the Brooklyn Waterfront and the Death of Pete Panto

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On the afternoon of Friday, July 14th, 1939, Pete Panto left the Moore-Mack pier where he served as hiring foreman at five o’clock and headed home to his rooming house near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In his room on North Eliott Place he was shaving for a date later that evening with his fiancée, Alice Maffia, when her younger brother Michael came to the room with word that Panto had a telephone call at the corner cigar store. Panto wiped his face and made his way downstairs, but when he returned from his conversation his mood had darkened. He seemed uncharacteristically spooked as he told Michael he would be meeting “two tough mugs” or “men I don’t like” for an hour or so that night, warning “If I don’t get back by ten o’clock tomorrow morning, tell the police.”

June 3, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors
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Loss On Loan

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“Matt is impossible today,” his teacher said when she wearily passed him off to me. I could only see a 4-year-old whose large, frightened eyes were wet with tears. He looked lost and lonely and I immediately found myself wanting to shelter him. I was a 23-year-old kid myself, barely paying rent on a rundown railroad in Bushwick. This was the first real job I had landed, yet I was only a novice, an uncertified preschool librarian in Brownsville.

May 25, 2010 Featured Writers
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American Subversive: An Excerpt

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So here’s the thing: I live in Manhattan. I realize this admission may count as blasphemy in these parts, but I spend what seems like several night a week in Brooklyn, and well, there’s nothing like an outsider’s perspective to keep people honest. I also write about Brooklyn a great deal, in both my fiction and non-fiction, so why don’t we start there and see what happens.

May 5, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors
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Rent Control From Outer Space

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Throughout the five-boroughs, the aliens leveled all apartments, condos, townhouses, brownstones, high-rises, and houses systematically with top-of the line laser death-rays. Afterward, new buildings were constructed, and nearly everyone was relocated to a new apartment; a 10-foot by 10-foot living space with an incredibly low ceiling and a sliver of a window. That is, except for a few railroad apartments in Bushwhick.

April 15, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Writers, Fiction, Guest Authors

Facebook Deletes Author Fan Page for “Inappropriate Language”

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Lambda Literary Award nominee Frank Anthony Polito’s Facebook fan page for his book Band Fags! was deleted last Thursday by the social networking giant, for his use of “inappropriate language” in the title.

April 8, 2010 Queer News
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Constant Bliss at the Coop

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Life is tough working a shift at the Park Slope Food Coop.

March 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Writers

Movin’ On Up – To Flatbush

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We’re trading Brooklyns, moving from the thriving, throbbing 24-hour Crown Heights – where the noise of blasting reggae at 3 AM is matched only by the noise of blasting cantorial music at 3 AM – trading it in for the placid, tree-lined, and, yes, backyard-filled streets of Flatbush. My Hasidic friends think I’m selling out and moving to a Modern Orthodox neighborhood. My non-Hasidic friends think I’m selling out and moving to the suburbs.

March 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors

Tznius Envy

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There was a crazy Nor’easter over the weekend, and we had to go to Jersey – an activity rarely on any Brooklynite’s top ten list, and especially not on a rainy Saturday night. But there was a family bar mitzvah, and we are nothing if not devoted to the family.

March 15, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors

Progressive Revival of ‘Marx in Soho’ Pays Tribute To Howard Zinn

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Marx, performed by Brian Jones on March 6 at New York City’s Ethical Culture Society, appears to us after having accidentally ended up in Soho, New York City, instead of Soho, London. This Marx invites the audience to look beyond – deeper into the ethos surrounding Marx’s renowned socialist political theory within a contemporary context.

March 15, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
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The Sex Lives of Feral Cats

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DEPTH OF FIELD—I read on the internet the other day that Europeans brought the rat to Hawaii, and it took over the island in a New York minute. But what exactly it took over isn’t clear to me. Alleyways? The space between walls? Everyone has space between walls. That’s where the outside meets the inside and they find their balance, like in a decompression chamber. You don’t want to let the outside in.

February 18, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Writers
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