Brooklyn Represents in Battle of the Boroughs
By Jason Orlovich
My Cousin, The Emperor is representing the Borough at WNYC’s “Ultimate Battle of the Borough” this Friday at 7pm at WNYC’s Green Space.
My Cousin, The Emperor is representing the Borough at WNYC’s “Ultimate Battle of the Borough” this Friday at 7pm at WNYC’s Green Space.
Welcome to the first installment of Reader in Residence on BrooklynTheBorough.com! Here we will feature contributions by authors, professors, journalists or book enthusiasts – basically anybody with interesting things to say about literature. We started out with the notion that a book club might be appropriate, but we know you probably don’t want, nor have the motivation, to sit through our boring assessments. Instead, we bring you ideas and excerpts from the authors themselves. These author contributions will appear weekly, building on ideas over the course of a month to prolong discussion in a digital space so often overlooked after the refresh button is pushed. Please share your thoughts and comments with us, we want to respond!
And so it is our great pleasure to bring you journalist and author Beth Fertig, a senior reporter on education for WNYC, New York’s NPR affiliate, and the author of Why Cant U Teach Me 2 Read?, an appropriate inaugural topic for this feature. Ms. Fertig’s book, out last year on FSG, dissects the successes and failures of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind act through the prism of three NYC public school students. Here she shares a short excerpt preceded by current policy planning efforts.
At WNYC’s new Jerome L. Greene Performance Space today, on the ground level of their new headquarters on Varick Street, Rosie Perez moderated a panel called The Places that Bind: Examining Preservation and Culture in a Changing City.
The Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg hosted a meet and greet with WNYC’s Soterios Johnson. The popular local Morning Edition host evidently sports a cult following, notably inspiring a musical score entitled Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance. Brooklyn The Borough asked Mr. Johnson about his Brooklyn listenership.
