Book Shopping at the St. Marks Bookshop
Yesterday, Book Boroughing swung by the St. Marks Bookshop in the East Village. Located on Third Avenue between 8th and 9th, St. Marks has been a fixture since 1977. When you first walk in there’s a...
View ArticleTalking with Shalom Auslander, author of “Hope: A Tragedy”
Having come onto the literary scene with his darkly funny short story collection, “Beware of God,” and then later publishing the much-praised memoir “Foreskin’s Lament,” Shalom Auslander is now a...
View ArticleBrooklyn Author Myke Cole on Social Media, Publicity, and Local Writing Spots
In their review, the popular science fiction website SF Signal called Myke Cole’s debut novel, Shadow Ops: Control Point, “A promising start with a new take on fantasy and military fiction.” Mixing his...
View ArticleSpying on CoverSpy
In October 2009, after the opening of Greenlight Books, the idea for CoverSpy was hatched. Soon “a team of publishing nerds” were running around New York, chronicling the city’s public reading habits....
View ArticleBook Boroughing’s PEN World Voices Picks
PEN World (International PEN) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in 1921 “to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers everywhere; to emphasize the role of literature in...
View ArticleMemorial Day Weekend at Community Bookstore
If you’re not familiar with Community Bookstore‘s backyard, drop everything and get down there immediately. It might just be the quietest place in Brooklyn. Plus, you might just see a few turtles....
View ArticleJuly Book Clubs
Don’t delay, there are some great book club reads for July at your local indie. In date order: WORD Fiction Book Club Saturday, July 7, 12:00pm Book: The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert...
View ArticleLiterary BFFs with Matt Dojny and John Wray [with audio]
On Wednesday, June 27th at McNally Jackson, Brooklyn authors and long-time friends Matt Dojny and John Wray kicked off Book Boroughing’s new literary series, “Literary BFFs,” a conversation between...
View ArticleAugust Book Clubs
Get started now, these book clubs for August are coming up fast! WORD Fiction Book Club Saturday, August 4, 12pm Book: Zombie by J.R. Angelella Conversation with author and editor Jeremy is fourteen,...
View ArticleSeptember Book Clubs
September book clubs are approaching fast. Get started now! WORD Fiction Book Group Saturday, September 1, 12pm Book: Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat Meet Aurorarama, the first in series...
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