Blog Posts tagged as: Brooklyn authors

Author Interview: Max Gross

Liza

I’m always excited when an author agrees to participate in an interview for Off the Shelf, so when Max Gross, author of rave-reviewed The Lost Shtetl, agreed to sit for an interview and join the New Utrecht branch for a discussion of his debut novel, let’s just say I was exceedingly happy. Gross’s book is an attentively crafted thought experiment on what might happen if a Polish shtetl slipped away from the outside world, unwittingly escaped the Nazi’s warpath, then collided with modern society. The catalyst for this “lost'' shtetl's reconnection with the modern world? The suspected…

POTW: Happy Birthday Marianne Moore

Dee Bowers

PORT_0606, Marianne Moore, 1949, black and white silver gelatin print. Photographs from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, BCMS.0002. Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. 
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. This image appeared in the Eagle on June 3, 1951 alongside an announcement of Moore winning an honorary degree at the University of Rochester. That same year, Moore's Collected Poems…

Author Spotlight: June Jordan, Poet of the People

Rachel McGuire

Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Collection
I think you better join with me to agitate and agitate for justice and equality we can eat and pay the rent with NOW. June Jordan, "Jim Crow: The Sequel" On July 9th, 2020, we celebrate what would be the 84th birthday of June Jordan, whose writing is as relevant as ever. When the library closed in mid-March, June Jordan’s poetry took refuge in my apartment along with Mary Oliver, Maggie Smith, Gwendolyn Brooks and me. I’m not sure how many days I surrendered in this manner,…