While Brooklyn Heights doesn’t “crave to be on the front of the Daily Mail“, it doesn’t hurt that our humble neighborhood received some ink from one of England’s biggest newspapers today. Well, not so much. While the article touts our borough’s celebrity residents, it’s not so complimentary to the home of Giamatti and Byrne and […]
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Brooklyn Book Festival
I approached the Main Stage at Borough Hall Plaza for the 4th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival at around noon on Sunday— already a large group of people congregating on the court house steps. Chuck Schumer, our New York State Senator, entered the fray kissing babies, as he and Marty Markowitz, Borough President, took the stage to welcome everyone to […]
If Levin’s Such a Carpetbagger, Then Why is He the Frontrunner?
Oy to the vey with this 33rd District race – what with the overwhelming number of mailers coming into our mailbox, the claims of blogs being a front for candidates, commenters here posing as the bloggers allegedly shilling for a candidate who are in fact shills for another candidate themselves, people with clipboards knocking on […]
Eagle Profiles Mailer’s Son
The Brooklyn Eagle’s Brad Lockwood profiles John Buffalo Mailer, son of the late Norman Mailer: Brooklyn Eagle: John Buffalo Mailer…: It has been a year since Norman Mailer died, and John Buffalo is his youngest child. His mother, Norris Church Mailer, generously opened her Brooklyn Heights home to us recently, and the extraordinary literary history […]
Hoover’s FBI Obsessed with Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer, who lived in Brooklyn Heights for many years, was the target of investigations by J. Edgar Hoover‘s FBI according to a report in the Washington Post. The newspaper claims that the law enforcement titan had become obsessed with the author after he “mocked” former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis in an Esquire Magazine […]
Mailer Memorial at Carnegie Hall
Wednesday (4/9) at 4pm, the late Norman Mailer will be remembered at Carnegie Hall. PBS personality Charlie Rose will host the event, which is free to the public. Tickets will be made available beginning at 11am Wednesday morning at the Carnegie Hall box office. The author, who lived in Brooklyn Heights, died last year at […]
What is Mailer’s Legacy?
Algis Valiunas writes about how late Brooklyn Heights resident and author Norman Mailer, who died in 2007, should be remembered in the literary world at Commentarymagzine.com :