The New York Times chats with Miral al-Tahawy about her book Brooklyn Heights: A Modern Arabic Novel: NYT: The central character in the book, “Brooklyn Heights,” is a single mother named Hend. She has one son and struggles with loneliness, exhaustion and depression. The award-winning book, recently released in English, weaves together a life in […]
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70s Flashback: The Queens of Montague Street
Both NY Times writer Sam Sifton (@samsifton) and BHB pal/Brooklyn Heights resident Teresa Genaro (@bklynbackstretch) tweeted today about a great piece by author Nancy Rommelmann called “The Queens of Montague Street.” For St. Ann’s alums of a certain age this serves as a trip down memory lane. But for anyone who grew up in New […]
DUMBO Arts Festival This Weekend
The DUMBO Arts Festival returns this weekend, with plenty of treats for eye, ear, and mind, and perhaps even for your backside if you choose to perch on one of the rocks upholstered by Elizabeth Demaray, an artist and Rutgers professor with a background in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, shown here working on a project […]
Busy Sunday in Brooklyn Heights: Summer Space and Book Festival
Karl is on hand with cam to catch all the action, from opera by Martha Cardona Theater to the BHA’s Dog Show to palmistry to yoga to great photos at Summer Space on Montague Street, then to the Brooklyn Book Festival on Borough Hall Plaza, starting with literary troubadours covering the 1961 Tokens hit “The […]
BHS Hosts 9/11 Program
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), in conjunction with the Brooklyn Community Foundation, will mark the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks this Sunday, September 11, starting at 2:00 p.m., with a program on the topic “Doing Good in a Post 9/11 World”. The Foundation has supplied these details: […]
Reminder: St. Ann’s Church to Commemorate 9/11 This Sunday Afternoon
As we previously reported, the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, at Clinton and Montague Streets, will host “Sanctuary STILL” this coming Sunday afternoon, September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. The Church has provided the following details about the event: On Sunday, […]
Columbia Heights “America’s Most Literary Street”
According to Evan Hughes, in the Daily Beast’s “Book Beast”: Columbia Heights, a short street in Brooklyn, just might be the most literary street in America. Columbia Heights is the closest street to the water in the quiet, leafy Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, and the authors who have lived there, if they were lucky, enjoyed commanding […]
St. Ann’s Church to Hold 9/11 Memorial Event
Sunday, September 11 will be the tenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, and on that day, starting at 3:00 p.m., St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, at Clinton and Montague streets, will host “a community event to honor the spirit of Brooklyn and its particular perspective on our nation’s loss, […]
Caesar Stabbed, Buried in Brooklyn Heights Coffee Shop
“Tazza” sounds like it could be the name of a character in Two Gentlemen of Verona, so perhaps it’s not odd that the Clark Street location of this shop has become the venue for a weekly reading of Shakespeare. Eagle writer Mary Frost was present for Julius Caesar last week, and found out how this […]
Brooklyn Heights Resident Laszlo Jakab Orsos Profiled in New York Times
The New York Times profiles PEN World Voices Festival director Laszlo Jakab Orsos via its Asked and Answered feature: NYT: One of the least pretentious people circulating in the literary world, Orsos is determined to show, with this festival, that literature is an everyday occurrence. (Guests at the Standard this week, for example, will find […]
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