RiR Author | Brooklyn (The Borough)

Ryan Britt will spend the month of April writing one short fiction story per week set in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Ryan’s writing has been published with Nerve, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and is forthcoming in Opium, and Clarkesworld. He has performed stories on stage with The Liar Show, The Moth, Stripped Stories, and Heeb. Ryan’s plays have enjoyed staged readings and full productions in New York City with Collective Unconscious, The Longest Lunch Theatre Company and The Tank. From 2008-2009 he wrote a short story every day and posted them to his blog called “Side Affects,” He lives in Brooklyn.

April 1, 2010 RiR Author

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Movin’ On Up – To Flatbush

By Matthue Roth

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 Reader in Residence

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Crushes on Cities

By Matthue Roth

The way some writers obsess about relationships — whether it’s poets reading poems about how they want to sleep with another poet in the audience, or novelists writing thinly-disguised (or not-disguised) accounts of their trysts/flings/marriages — I obsess about cities.

March 23, 2010 Reader in Residence

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Matthue Roth

By Nicole Brydson

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. He’s also the co-creator of animated Torah video series G-dcast.com. His first screenplay, 1/20, is currently in postproduction. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and …

March 4, 2010 RiR Author

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Melissa Febos

By David Bukszpan

February, at least according to Hallmark, is the month of love. At BrooklynTheBorough.com, we’re willing to buy that, but we’re going to take a slightly more adult look at affairs of the heart. Enter Melissa Febos, author of the memoir Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press) out on March 2, which recalls her four years working at a midtown dungeon as a dominatrix. Publishers Weekly called it an “emotionally stark, excoriating work, [in which] Febos mines the darkest, most troubling aspects of human interaction.” Catch her reading, live, at the Franklin Park Reading Series on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Crown Heights.

February 3, 2010 RiR Author

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