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Our area’s rich literary history will continue at 2pm on Saturday, August 23 with the 2014 Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival [http://nywriterscoalition.org/2014/07/17/6963/], to be held at the Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument. This year’s lineup includes Master of Ceremonies (and Rolling
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You may know Valerie D’Orazio [http://valeriedorazio.com] from her work on Marvel’s X-Men and Punisher comics [http://marvel.com/comics/creators/9643/valerie_dorazio], or from her Occasional Superheroine [http://occasionalsuperheroine.blogspot.com] blog. However the Ditmas Park native’s most recent project, Beyond: Edward Snowden [http:
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This Saturday, March 29, neighbors are invited to the Cortelyou Library [http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/locations/cortelyou] (1305 Cortelyou Road on the corner of Argyle Road) for a talk by CUNY professor and writer Kathy McDonald [http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/Kathlene-McDonald.cfm]. Kathy will be discussing Lorraine Hansberry
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We’re very sad to hear about the death of Ned Vizzini [http://www.nedvizzini.com], a Park Slope native who is perhaps best known for his semi-autobiographical book It’s Kind of a Funny Story [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248704.It_s_Kind_of_a_Funny_Story]
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Writer and Park Slope local Jane Kelley [http://www.janekelleybooks.com/Home.html] find plenty of inspiration in our neighborhood, which has found its way, in some part, into her previous middle-grade novels Nature Girl [http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Girl-Jane-Kelley/dp/0375856358] and The Girl Behind the Glass [http://www.
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Matthue Roth has been living in Ditmas Park with his family for three and a half years. The author of Never Mind the Goldbergs [https://sites.google.com/site/matthue/store#goldbergs], Candy in Action [http://candyinaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/candy-shop.html], Losers [https://sites.google.com/site/matthue/
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You know what they say about plans: Man plans and God laughs. Bensonhurst resident Tina Panariello knows this better than most. She just wanted to be an actress, and set out to realize that dream. But, instead, she embarked on a life journey that took her from stage, to home-business
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One of neighbor Jake Siegel’s short stories was just published in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War [http://www.fireandforgetbook.com/], an anthology of fiction written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, and a non-fiction piece about his time in Iraq ran today in the New York
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For comic book writer David Gallaher [http://www.davidgallaher.com], supporting the businesses in our neighborhood is important. That’s why for his new book, The Only Living Boy [http://www.the-only-living-boy.com/], he’ll be doing a signing not at a comic book shop or a bookstore someplace else
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Source: JSmith Photo/FlickrThe following is from our friends at the Shorefront YM-YWHA (3300 Coney Island Avenue). On a side note, I had the opportunity to meet with the three playwrights, as well as the backers of this initiative, yesterday. Three truly interesting people working on an awesome project that
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This week’s Manhattan Beach Community Group meeting will host Dan Feldman, a former New York State Assemblyman and author of a new book on Albany politics. Feldman, a Manhattan Beach resident, was elected to the Assembly in 1980. According to his staff profile at Fordham University [http://law.fordham.
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Ever wondered about those big ol’ houses you pass on your way to the train station? Curious about the famed Sheepshead Bay race tracks? Ever wanted to know how our neighborhood, so unique from the rest of Brooklyn and New York City, came to be the way it is? Joseph