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Check Out Ditmas Lit, The Best Reading Series In Town

Rachel Lyon (R) and Sarah Bridgins at Ditmas Lit. (Photo by Debra Pearlman)On a frigid, rainy Tuesday in January, Ditmas Parkers squeezed into the cozy faux-log-cabin outpost perched in Sycamore’s backyard. Huddled around a crackling “fire” and heat lamps, this devoted literary crowd gathered for Ditmas Lit, the

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Hear Ye: Poets & Writers To Read Saturday, July 11 At The E. 4th Street Community Garden

Photo courtesy of E. 4th Street Community Garden, Anney FreshThis Saturday, July 11th at 3:30 pm, the East Fourth Street Community Garden welcomes all to a free reading by four Brooklyn poets and writers. On a mid-July afternoon, listen to these authors read their works and expect to be

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Writer Amy Shearn Launches New Author Discussion Series At The Park Slope Library

Park Slope is one of the best neighborhoods in the city to hear authors talk about their work, and it’s about to get even better. Brooklyn-based author Amy Shearn is bringing her skill for gathering talented writers, and her infectious charm, to a new interview series at the Park

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Paz Pardo On Moving From NYC To Buenos Aires, Acting Vs Directing & Her Newest Work, “Perpetual Motion”

Photo by Sam BurbankPaz Pardo is a prolific writer, actor, and director whose name you might recognize from her play Duct Tape Girl and Fetish Chick Conquer the World, performed in Park Slope living rooms in early 2013. With her one-woman show Perpetual Motion (which takes on “the ephemeral communities

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Sip & Listen Next Tuesday During Write Night At Frank’s

Need a little spoken word in your life (and perhaps a drink or two while you’re at it)? Then stop by Frank’s Cocktail Lounge (660 Fulton Street between Lafayette Avenue and South Elliot Place) next Tuesday, November 18 for this month’s Write Night event, where you’ll

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Check Out Free Readings & Performances Tomorrow Night At Pratt

Pratt will be hosting Now Before And After Is Not Enough, an evening of no-cost public performances and readings tomorrow (Thursday, August 28) to celebrate the launch of their new MFA writing program. From 6-7:30pm, audiences will be treated to work by scribes who tackle poetry, fiction, play writing,

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News From Neighbors: Scott Organ, Cuddle Magic, Lucius & The National

It’s no secret that Ditmas Park is an oasis for talented and ambitious New Yorkers in all sorts of industries. Here are a few neighbors with news to share: The National is playing tonight at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The show is sold out, but you can always camp

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Join Local Author Kathy McDonald For A Talk About Lorraine Hansberry At The Cortelyou Library

This Saturday, March 29, neighbors are invited to the Cortelyou Library (1305 Cortelyou Road on the corner of Argyle Road) for a talk by CUNY professor and writer Kathy McDonald. Kathy will be discussing Lorraine Hansberry, the essayist/playwright who famously penned A Raisin in the Sun, both in the

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Lit At Lark Returns October 20 With Carolyn Turgeon, Stephanie Lehmann & Patty Chang Anker

September 15 was the debut of Lit at Lark, and it went so well that Kari, Lori, and neighbor/author Amy Shearn are teaming up with a new trio of authors to do it again. The next Lit at Lark event will be Sunday, October 20 at 5pm at Lark

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Matthue Roth On Legos, All His Best Plans & The Exception That Is Ditmas Park

Matthue Roth has been living in Ditmas Park with his family for three and a half years. The author of Never Mind the Goldbergs, Candy in Action, Losers, and Yom Kippur A Go-Go was inspired to write his latest work, My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents, and Giant Bugs, after witnessing

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Meet Novelist Clay McLeod Chapman & Attend His Reading At The Cortelyou Library This Saturday

If there’s ever a sighting of neighbor Clay McLeod Chapman asleep, please let us know about it – because we just don’t think it’s possible. A recent transplant to Ditmas Park, Clay is long known in New York by downtown theater fans as the originator of The Pumpkin

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KCC Student Named NYC’s “Young Poet Laureate”

Psha, screw the crusty old intelligentsia of Park Slope. New York City’s 2012 Youth Poet Laureate is a Kingsborough Community College student. Nineteen-year-old Ishmael “Ish” Islam snagged the title with his winning poem “Daydreaming at the Voting Booth” (above), tallying the most votes in a poetry slam competition at