Books: For one weekend in November, Brooklyn will become the center of the comic universe. Comment.

Books: There’s nothing better than a reading about suicide at Brooklyn’s best boneyard. Comments (1).

Books: The bard of Boerum Hill has turned his attention to the Upper East Side. Comment.

Books: Greenlight Bookstore is here at last! Comments (5).

Checkin’ in with: Meet a man who wrote the book on war. Comments (1).

Books: The Bed-Stuy-based writer goes back to her Trinidad roots for her latest book. Comment.

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.

Books: The Beep invites you to his fourth annual book festival. Comment.

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).

Books: Cobble Hill author Arthur Phillips is poised to join the most elite strata of novelists — those with money. Comment.

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).

Books: Move over, Su Doku! Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley has a new mind game: pawn mowers. Comments (1).

Checkin’ in with: What makes something funny? And, more important, how can you get your screenplay made? Find out here. Comments (1).

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).

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.

Books: Meet Colm Toibin, author of “Brooklyn,” his sixth book. Comment.

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.

Books: Not so loud, but incredibly close: Jonathan Safran Foer sits down and talks to The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (2).

Books: Suzanne Guillette collected stories of sadness — and found a way out of her own. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: Our reporter interviews Mara Altman, author of a new book about her inability to reach certain heights. Comments (4).

Books: Two decades of romantic ups and downs left author Giulia Melucci with a broken heart — but never an empty stomach. Comments (2).

Books: Former Park Slope Civic Council President and local writer Lydia Denworth is back with a new book. Comment.

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).

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.

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).

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).

Books: Millions of Muslims want him dead — but you can see Salman Rushdie live in Brooklyn Heights next month. Comment.

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).

Books: Williamsburg hipster chicks will eat you alive, says this graphic artist in a new collection of comic stories. Comments (1).

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.

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.