E.L. Doctorow, one of the most accalimed writers of contemporary American fiction, whose novels include Ragtime (1976 National Book Critics Circle Award; a 1981 movie version starred James Cagney as a police commissioner and Norman Mailer as the architect Stanford White), World’s Fair (1986 National Book Award), and, most recently, Homer & Langley (2009), a […]
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Norris Church Mailer Dies at 61
Norris Church Mailer, Brooklyn Heights resident and widow of Norman Mailer, who died three years ago, died today at her home. The cause was cancer. The New York Times: Norris Church Mailer, a woman bred in the rural poverty of Arkansas who married Norman Mailer and managed his career and family life over three decades […]
Paging Maury Povich: Michael Mailer Leaves Wife
The late Norman Mailer’s son, Michael, is telling friends that he and his wife Dominique “Sasha” Lazard have separated. The NY Post reports that Lazard gave birth to another man’s child in June, surprising Mailer who believed the child was his. The couple’s marriage, now worthy of an appearance on The Maury Show, had a […]
BHA Sponsors “Literary, Artistic and Cinematic” Walking Tour This Sunday
This coming Sunday, June 27, the Brooklyn Heights Association, as part of its continuing centennial celebration, will present a walking tour of Brooklyn Heights focusing on the neighborhood’s heritage in literature, the visual arts, and film. The tour will be led by the BHA’s newly inaugurated President, Jane McGroarty, an architect and thirty year Heights […]
Mailer’s Son Looks at New Orleans Through the Eyes of Strippers
John Buffalo Mailer, the son of the late Brooklyn Heights based author Norman Mailer has published a new ebook which looks at the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of strippers. Music, Food, and Death – The State Of New Orleans Through The Eyes Of The Strippers is available via Smashwords […]
Peter Hedges Talks (and Walks) The Heights with the NY Daily News
Boerum Hill resident/ Brooklyn Heights based author Peter Hedges is featured in today’s NY Daily News. He gives a walking tour of Brooklyn Heights and talks about his nabe-based novel The Heights. Tickets for Homer Fink’s Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour on 3/27 are on sale now!
Eagle: Cutting Den Dudes Give Thumbs Down to Play Based on Shop
Tommy and Rocky of the Cutting Den in the Hotel St. George subway station are giving a play based on their shop a big thumbs down, according to the Brooklyn Eagle. The Cutting Den, now playing at the Soho Playhouse and written by long time Brooklyn Heights resident and former NYS Athletic Commission honcho Ron […]
New Walking Tours of the North and South Heights Coming 2/28
BHB pal Rich at GothamSideWalks tells us he’ll be conducting two tours of the Brooklyn Heights on 2/28: 11:00, North Brooklyn Heights: Writers & Religion Explore this community’s controversial past through inspiring 19th church architecture, and the equally moving words of resident writers like Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer. Meet under the Columbus […]
Remembering Mailer Two Years Later
Brooklyn Heights resident, former NYC mayoral candidate and world renown author Norman Mailer died two years ago today from acute renal failure. We thought it appropriate to remember the cantankerous writer with this clip from his 1968 appearance on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.
Gotham Sidewalks Tour Sunday of Brooklyn Heights
Our pals at Gotham Sidewalks host their “Writers and Religion in Old Brooklyn Heights” tour tomorrow at 12:30 pm. For more info check their website. Writers & Religion in Old Brooklyn Heights Explore this community’s controversial past through inspiring 19th church architecture, and the equally moving words of resident writers like Walt Whitman, W.E.B. Dubois, […]
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