Joan Didion is a well-covered subject, but Wilkinson’s book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories,” approaches Didion’s work with a fresh perspective.
Leonard Riggio, who transformed Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller, has died at age 83.
Joan Didion is a well-covered subject, but Wilkinson’s book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories,” approaches Didion’s work with a fresh perspective.
Leonard Riggio, who transformed Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller, has died at age 83.
Alissa Wilkinson is a film critic at the New York Times and recently announced her second book which is about Joan Didion.
The Brooklyn Book Festival and Brooklyn Literary Council recently revealed the expansive list of writers participating in this year’s Festival Day and Literary Marketplace (Sunday, Sept. 29), Children’s Day (Saturday, Sept. 28) and Virtual Festival Day (Sunday, Sept. 22). The Festival additionally announced renowned cartoonist Roz Chast as recipient of the 2024 Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) Award, to be presented
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The Center for Brooklyn History hosted a discussion on Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter and author Dana Mattioli’s new book, “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” It documents Amazon’s relentless pursuit to dominate industries and reshape the global economy. The Q-and-A, moderated by WSJ reporter Emily Glazer, took place
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The Center for Brooklyn History recently hosted a discussion on Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter and author Dana Mattioli’s new book, titled, “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” It documents Amazon’s relentless pursuit to dominate industries and reshape the global economy. The one-on-one Q-and-A, moderated by WSJ reporter Emily
In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country’s first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by Isaiah Thomas & Company, is widely cited as something momentous: the first American novel. Around 100 pages long, Brown’s narrative tells of two young New Englanders
Teddy Wayne is an award-winning author and Cobble Hill resident who recently published “The Winner.” The novel, which is being developed into a film, is about Connor — a tennis coach in Cape Cod — and the moral quandaries he encounters from pandering to the rich. “I had, from the very inception, the idea that Connor would be there as
Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77. Auster’s death was confirmed by his wife and fellow author, Siri Hustvedt, who said that Auster died Tuesday at their home in Brooklyn. He had been diagnosed with
In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions.” “I loved it. It takes seriously a subject that is scoffed at in popular culture, that a lot of people see
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Tuesday may have been Brooklyn’s snowiest day in two years, but it was a case of nor’easter be damned for the launch of best-selling author Eric Klinenberg’s highly anticipated nonfiction book “2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.” Indeed, it was standing room only in the Great Hall at the Center for Brooklyn History
Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting was harrowing. One day at school, Adams was hanging out with a group of friends when someone showed up with a gun, according to his 2009 book, “Don’t Let It Happen.” Still a child
Book publishing in 2023 was a story of cooling sales and rising conflict, marked by legal action, protests, censorship and the impact of forces well beyond the industry. Print book sales continued to recede following the pandemic-era surge, but fiction remained strong, thanks in part to the young readers on BookTok. Colleen Hoover, one of BookTok’s signature authors, continued her reign
SUNSET PARK — Brooklyn Public Library and Fifth Avenue Committee cut the ribbon on the new Sunset Park Library and Apartments. The historic project, the first of its kind in New York City, establishes a new development model under which the creation of 100 percent affordable housing is paired with new and expanded public library facilities. The project is part