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Jacqueline Woodson, Author of Evocative Bushwick Novel “Another Brooklyn,” Will Speak in Bed-Stuy

Woodson's 2016 novel draws inspiration from her childhood and adolescence in Bushwick.

By Emilie Ruscoe

Nov. 29, 2016 · 1 min read

Arts & Culture

Jacqueline Woodson, Author of Evocative Bushwick Novel “Another Brooklyn,” Will Speak in Bed-Stuy

Woodson's 2016 novel draws inspiration from her childhood and adolescence in Bushwick.

Emilie Ruscoe November 29, 2016Nov 29, 2016 · 1 min read

Jacqueline Woodson, whose powerful 2016 novel “Another Brooklyn” vividly evokes Bushwick in the 1970s, is scheduled to appear at Bed-Stuy’s Macon Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on Thursday, December 15 with Jason Reynolds, author of the Bed-Stuy coming of age book “When I Was the Greatest.”

Woodson and Reynolds’ event is part of the schedule of Gracie Book Club , the citywide reading initiative spearheaded by the city’s First…

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