By Sabrina Jaszi
Books: For one weekend in November, Brooklyn will become the center of the comic universe.
Comment.
By Will Yakowicz
Books: There’s nothing better than a reading about suicide at Brooklyn’s best boneyard.
Comments (1).
By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Books: The bard of Boerum Hill has turned his attention to the Upper East Side.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Books: Esteemed Brooklyn scribe Jonathan Lethem’s new book is all about Manhattan, but it’s not just any part of that god-forsaken borough — it’s about the Upper East Side!
Comment.
By Gersh Kuntzman
Checkin’ in with: Meet a man who wrote the book on war.
Comments (1).
By Meredith Deliso
Books: The Bed-Stuy-based writer goes back to her Trinidad roots for her latest book.
Comment.
By Wendy Ponte
Books: Who knew there was a wild boar residing on Garfield Place? It just doesn’t seem like the place for such a beast — or maybe it does.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Books: The Beep invites you to his fourth annual book festival.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Books: Here’s our guide to the must-hear authors.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Books: Love Park Slope so much you only read books (or watch movies) where it’s a central character? Here’s a list for you!
Comments (1).
By Louise Crawford
Books: The author of the new chick-lit classic, “Prospect Park West,” has a lot to learn about the neighborhood she pans.
Comments (10).
By Ben Muessig
Books: Cobble Hill author Arthur Phillips is poised to join the most elite strata of novelists — those with money.
Comment.
By Robin Riskin
Books: Fort Greene’s pen-wielding luminaries — we’re talking Colson Whitehead, Toure, and Nelson George — will be leaving their fortresses of literary solitude for the Summer Literary Festival next Saturday.
Comments (1).
By Jared Foretek
Books: Move over, Su Doku! Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley has a new mind game: pawn mowers.
Comments (1).
By Gersh Kuntzman
Checkin’ in with: What makes something funny? And, more important, how can you get your screenplay made? Find out here.
Comments (1).
By Gersh Kuntzman
Books: Park Slope may be battling Prospect Heights for the title of the most writer-friendly community in Brookyn, but the entire borough continues to stake its claim to national literary prominence.
Comments (1).
By Gersh Kuntzman
Books: It doesn’t get much bigger than this in Park Slope: Ira Glass is coming to town! And it’s for a good cause!
Comment.
By Meredith Deliso
Books: Meet Colm Toibin, author of “Brooklyn,” his sixth book.
Comment.
By Evan Gardner
Books: Ben Greenman, an editor at the New Yorker, set out to write a biography of Sly Stone and ended up with a serious novel about an entirely made up funk rock legend.
Comment.
By Gersh Kuntzman
Books: Not so loud, but incredibly close: Jonathan Safran Foer sits down and talks to The Brooklyn Paper.
Comments (2).
By Paula Roth
Books: Suzanne Guillette collected stories of sadness — and found a way out of her own.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
Checkin’ in with: Our reporter interviews Mara Altman, author of a new book about her inability to reach certain heights.
Comments (4).
By Ben Muessig
Books: Two decades of romantic ups and downs left author Giulia Melucci with a broken heart — but never an empty stomach.
Comments (2).
By Aisha Gawad
Books: Former Park Slope Civic Council President and local writer Lydia Denworth is back with a new book.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Books: Everyone wants to get to second base with Alyssa Milano, which makes sense because the sexy star loves baseball, too. She’ll be reading from her new baseball book next week in Bay Ridge.
Comments (3).
By Ben Muessig
Books: For some novelists, the fourth time’s the charm — especially if they win a new prize being offered to fourth novelists by St. Francis College.
Comment.
By Ben Muessig
Books: There’s a new chapter in the never-ending war between graffiti writers and the police — a book penned by a retired cop has sparked outrage in the scribbling community.
Comments (1).
By Aisha Gawad
The Brooklyn Paper / Emily Lavin
Books: The writing on the wall — “Building sold!” — scared some book lovers, but the good news is that Heights Books will live on.
Comments (1).
By Evan Gardner
Books: Millions of Muslims want him dead — but you can see Salman Rushdie live in Brooklyn Heights next month.
Comment.
By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Books: A prominent black bookstore and publisher in Fort Greene will close next month, its owner says, because the Department of Education cancelled a lucrative deal to buy textbooks from it.
Comments (7).
By Zeke Faux
Books: Williamsburg hipster chicks will eat you alive, says this graphic artist in a new collection of comic stories.
Comments (1).
By Zeke Faux
Books: Ben Karlin, a former “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” writer, will read from his book about bad breakups on Feb. 13 in DUMBO.
Comment.
By Zeke Faux
Books: Call him the anti-Salinger. Call him a shameless self-promoter. Hey, just call him — he’ll show up at your book club!
Comment.