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Description: Musings on springtime and the "Brooklynese" accent.
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Subject: Literature , Postcards, Weather
Creator: Lisa DeBoer
Date: 2009, 2009 April 2
Description: An author talk with Evan Hughes, author of Literary Brooklyn.
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Subject: Events, Literature
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 December 13, 2011
Description: The register of Coney Island's first hotel, Coney Island House, and some of its famous signatures, which may or may not be authentic.
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Subject: Coney Island, Literature
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 January 26, 2012
Description: A follow up post about the Coney Island House register.
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Subject: Coney Island, Literature
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 February 8, 2012
Description: Brooklyn Public Library and the Norman Mailer Center present a discussion of American writer Norman Mailer and his impact on the literary culture of Brooklyn.
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Subject: Events, Literature
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 July 9, 2013
Description: Documentation of the library's response to New York state declaring Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer "obscene," in honor of Banned Books Week.
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Subject: Library history, Literature
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2014 September 22, 2014
Description: Poet Hart Crane and his time in Brooklyn.
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Subject: People, Literature
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2015 April 27, 2015
Description: Guest post. Exploring the connection between the prominent Packard family of Brooklyn Heights and the poet John McCrae.
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Subject: People, Literature
Creator: Linda Granfield
Date: 2016, 2016 March 28
Description: A National Poetry Month tribute to Brooklyn poets Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and Paule Marshall.
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Subject: People, Whitman, Walt, Literature
Creator: Natiba Guy-Clement
Date: 2018 April 4, 2018
Description: The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's roots in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Literature , People
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2019, 2019 December 27
Description: Poetry by teens in the High School Newspaper Collection.
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Subject: Literature , Children, School History
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2020 December 31, 2020
Description: Brooklyn poet Marianne Moore was born on this day in 1887. For a birthday tribute, today's Photo of the Week is this striking portrait of her from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photo morgue.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Literature , People
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 November 15, 2021
Description: Did you know that in 1934, the Brooklyn Jewish Center founded the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books? Though it's little-remembered today, the initiative was championed by such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair, and was celebrated nationwide.
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Subject: Jewish history, Literature
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 July 1, 2022
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