Local Salvadoran-American Author Releases New Book About Racism, Sexism, and Shame

Christine Sloan Stoddard new book explores issues of social inequality and personal identity through poetry and prose.

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Local Salvadoran-American Author Releases New Book About Racism, Sexism, and Shame

Christine Sloan Stoddard new book explores issues of social inequality and personal identity through poetry and prose.

Books Are Not Dead at This New Bed-Stuy Bookstore-Coffee Shop Hybrid

Bushwick secondhand bookstore expands into Bed-Stuy.

Longtime Local Creates Small Community Library on Knickerbocker Avenue

This small library bench is meant to educate and teach the community to share.

A New Reading and Music Series Hits Our Wicked Lady after 10 Years at Cake Shop

The MIXER Reading and Music Series is all about pairing emerging writers, established writers, and musicians.

With Weekly Fundraisers, Molasses Is Taking a Stand Against the Looming Presidential Administration

Ten percent of all bar and book sales every Friday night will get donated to progressive causes.

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.

Newly Open Spoonbill & Sugartown Bookstore in East Williamsburg Brings a Ton of Singular Book Events

Augmented reality, vagina art, high school yearbooks. Spoonbill & Sugartown has it all.

New Explosive Novel Explores How Far Are Millennials Willing to Go to Make a Buck

Would you work as a human breast pump? How about a professional cuddler of strangers?

An “Orgasm Brunch” Reading Is Coming to House of Yes This Sunday

Barmack's new book "Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality" investigates and attempts to demystify women's sexuality and the female orgasm.

Four Approaching Fests Will All Celebrate Bushwick’s Zinesters

The next three weekends are a zine enthusiast's paradise as North Brooklyn becomes the home of multiple festivals dedicated to the DIY art form.

Represent Bushwick on Brooklyn’s Inaugural Bookstore Crawl

Bookstore sales are up across the country for the first time since 2007, and we can't think of a better way to celebrate than with the Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl on April 30th (which also happens to be Independent Bookstore Day)

Local Stripper Releases Memoir About Her (and Her Beaver’s) Travels

Okay, to be clear, when the book first opens, a man called Jim, looking earnestly into Jacqueline’s anus on her very first day as a stripper, is a client