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Dead Man Walking Nun to Speak at Mary McDowell Friends Wednesday Evening

By on May 12, 2013 10:07 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Events, Literature, movies

Sister Helen Prejean, famous as the nun who became the spiritual adviser to a condemned criminal, a story popularized in the movie Dead Man Walking in which she is played by Susan Sarandon, will appear at Mary McDowell Friends Upper School, 23 Sidney Place, this Wednesday evening, May 15, starting at 7:00. Sr. Helen is [...]

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Author Jennifer Miller’s Novel Marketing Campaign For Debut ‘Gadfly’

By on April 29, 2013 7:43 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Bugle Sessions, Brooklyn Heights, Literature, News

It was last July when BHB reported about Brooklyn Heights author Jennifer Miller’s unique marketing strategy for debut novel “The Year of the Gadfly,” as she hawked the book via a “novelade stand” at Montague & Henry streets. That was then. Miller has now joined forces with Togather, which lends assistance to connect authors with [...]

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Brooklyn Heights Resident Julie Sarkissian Celebrates Publication of First Novel

By on April 22, 2013 11:04 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Events, Literature

As reported by the Eagle, neighborhood resident Julie Sarkissian will celebrate the publication of her first novel, Dear Lucy, tomorrow (Tuesday, April 23) evening at BookCourt, 163 Court Street, starting at 7:00. According to the store’s website, the “Docket” includes: “Release Party”; “Reading”; “Audience Q&A”; “Book Signing”; “Live Music”; and “Food & Drinks Served.”

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Brooklyn Public Library President Addresses Future Of Cadman Plaza Branch

By on April 18, 2013 11:22 am in Brooklyn Heights, Education, Literature, News

Linda E. Johnson, President & CEO of the Brooklyn Public Library, sent an email to patrons Wednesday about “our efforts to create a better branch in Brooklyn Heights.” In it, she addresses her take on “innovative solutions to help us provide the service Brooklynites deserve” by “constructing a new, modern branch in Brooklyn Heights.” The [...]

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Brooklyn Public Library Eyes E-Book Sales As New Income Resource

By on April 16, 2013 2:02 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Education, Literature, News

The Brooklyn Public Library has inked a deal with Simon & Schuster to make the publisher’s complete collection of electronic books available at branch libraries, in which BPL will then get a 2% cut of profits from each book sold. The money raised is being eyed as a way to help fund the more than [...]

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Brooklyn Heights-Based InsideClimate News Wins Pulitzer

By on April 16, 2013 1:47 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Literature, News

Brooklyn Heights-based independent nonprofit news agency InsideClimate News—which focuses on climate change and energy issues, has won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The award-winning story is “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” about the “dangers of oil pipelines.” InsideClimate News is based at 16 Court Street, across from [...]

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Citizens Defending Libraries Keeps The Ball Rolling…

By on March 12, 2013 6:46 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Development, Events, Government, Literature

Brooklyn Heights-based Citizens Defending Libraries rallied in Manhattan last Friday to stop public policy of defunding libraries in order to sell real estate to private developers. The group has several upcoming activities to keep the ball rolling that local citizens can be involved in: • Wednesday, March 13, 10:00 AM: Join the District Council 37 [...]

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‘Citizens Defending Libraries’ Rallies In Manhattan To Protect Cadman Plaza Branch

By on March 8, 2013 9:26 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Education, Events, Government, Literature, News

Brooklyn Heights-based organization Citizens Defending Libraries rallied Friday during a hearing in Manhattan addressing the New York City Council’s Fiscal Year 2014 Preliminary Budget, and the Mayor’s Fiscal Year ‘13 Preliminary Management Report and Agency Oversight. The hearing was run by James G. Van Bramer, Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Relations. Testimony from [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on March 8, 2013 12:18 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Food, Literature, movies, Music, Theater

Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will be showing Emperor, starring Matthew Fox as Japan expert General Bonner Fellers and Tommy Lee Jones (Oscar nominee for his role in Lincoln) as General Douglas MacArthur, the two of whom, in the wake of victory, decide the fate of Emperor Hirohito. The Cinema is [...]

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Renowned Heights’ Resident Amity Shlaes Publishes New Bio On Calvin Coolidge

By on March 4, 2013 4:14 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Literature, News, Reader Profiles

Renowned author, columnist & Brooklyn Heights rez Amity Shlaes, whose 2007 book “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” was widely acclaimed, has just published “Coolidge,” a chronicle of the life of 30th president Calvin Coolidge. She tells webbie Woman Around Town, “Our ignorance of Coolidge hurts more than our understanding of [...]

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