Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 2/25 with @brendancbyrne.bsky.social, @theladyaye.bsky.social, Jonathan Dixon, Nhu An Do, and guest co-host @colindickey.com! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit
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Monthly reading series at the Urbane Arts Club in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn hosted by Sarah Bridgins and Lena Valencia. https://www.ditmaslit.com/events
Ditmas Lit is next Wed. 1/28 with readers Simona Blat, @carolinehagood.bsky.social, Francisco Márquez, and Keith Newton + guest host Ben Lasman! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Tonight! Celebrating 9 years of Ditmas Lit! There might even be cupcakes 🧁👀 www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
The 9th anniversary of Ditmas Lit is in 1 week, Tue. 12/16! We can’t wait to welcome back guest host Rachel Lyon, and readers Josh Boardman, Ry Cook, Xochitl Gonzalez, and Anne-E Wood! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
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Nov. reader Eve M. Kahn interviewed in Vogue about her book Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams www.vogue.com/article/mary...
American Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams Finally Gets the Recognition She Deserves
But “do not feel sorry for her,” says biographer Eve Kahn in a new book about the revolutionary artist.
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Ditmas Lit is tonight! Read an interview with @deenaelg.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com about her novel Dust Settles North electricliterature.com/a-story-of-f...
A Story of Family's Grief Set Against Political Upheaval in Egypt - Electric Literature
In Deena ElGenaidi's "Dust Settles North," characters witness the crumbling of government and family systems
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@shelf-awareness.com calls Laura Venita Green’s Sister Creatures an “ . . . arresting, unnerving, and wise debut novel.” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...
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Ditmas Lit is Wed! Read an interview with @leahumansky.bsky.social about her poetry collection On Tyrant in @adroitjournal.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/2024/06/17/a...
A Conversation Between Melissa Fite Johnson and Leah Umansky
Melissa Fite Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, HAD, Whale Road Rev…
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Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Entertainment Weekly calls Anna Rasche’s novel The Stone Witch of Florence “A twisty, historical witchy escape.” www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9...
The Stone Witch of Florence - Harlequin.com
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Ditmas Lit is tonight! @nytimes.com raves that reader @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s novel Sacrificial Animals, “Establishes Pedersen as a future master of speculative fiction.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...
3 New Horror Novels Full of Terrors That Are All Too Real (Published 2024)
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Check out Oct. reader Tierney Oberhammer’s short story Marquis published in “swamp pink” swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/mar...
Marquise – swamp pink
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Ditmas Lit is this Wed. 10/22! In their starred review, @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @megancummins.bsky.social novel Atomic Hearts “Impressive - works equally well as a gritty coming-of-age drama & an insightful story about the nature of writing.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780593875353
Atomic Hearts by Megan Cummins
Cummins’s impressive debut novel (after the collection If the Body Allows It) follows two lifelong friends who bonded while stru...
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The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
urbanebrooklyn.com
Thank you to our September readers Kerry Cullen, @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Allison C. Meier, and Patrick Ryan! We had a blast!
Tonight! Join us at The Urbane Arts Club for our September show with readings by @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Patrick Ryan, Kerry Cullen, and Allison C. Meier. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 9/24! We’re excited to welcome Kerry Cullen, Patrick Ryan, Allison C. Meier, and @cherrylousy.bsky.social! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
urbanebrooklyn.com
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Belle Ling’s poem This Little Fish in @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/this-...
This Little Fish by Belle Ling
Our faces in water bearing us like mirrors watchingfrom the depth of a void, where I hear a call:Here, I am here— Turning, my fish, her swirls and twines hardly break...
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Read an excerpt from @rubenwrites.bsky.social’s debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven in @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
BOMB Magazine | Alternate Histories of El Salvador or Perhaps the…
From the debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven , two pieces of flash fiction imagine new narratives for El Salvador.
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Read Anthony Thomas Lombardi’s poem “God loves everybody, don’t remind me” in Salt Hill salthilljournal.net/god-loves-ev...
God loves everybody, don't remind me - Anthony Thomas Lombardi — Salt Hill Journal
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Ditmas Lit is Wed. 7/23! @electricliterature.com interviews reader Heather McCalden about her memoir The Observable Universe electricliterature.com/heather-mcca...
Heather McCalden on Using Fragments to Write About Loss, Viruses, and the Internet - Electric Literature
Her memoir "The Observable Universe" is an album of grief about orphanhood
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Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 7/23 at The Urbane Arts Club! We’re excited to welcome Belle Ling, Heather McCalden, @rubenwrites.bsky.social & Anthony Thomas Lombardi! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit is tonight! @autostraddle.bsky.social calls reader Mac Crane’s novel A Sharp Endless Need “ . . . vibrant and grimy and hot and poetic and aching.” www.autostraddle.com/a-sharp-endl...
'A Sharp Endless Need' Lives in the Intersection of Sex and Basketball
At their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.
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Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 6/25! In their starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls @jeannethornton.bsky.social’s A/S/L “A dazzlingly creative and heartfelt novel.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
A/S/L | Kirkus Reviews
Three queer women discover that the internet really is forever.
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June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...
Writing Is Like Finding Which Window to Open
Exilé Sans Frontières talks to Kristina Andersson Bicher about poetry, translating Marie Lundquist, and how her own writing comes to life.
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Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! Reader James Stewart III spoke with @chicagoreader.com about his debut novel Defiant Acts chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
The defiant acts of the working class - Chicago Reader
Defiant Acts, the debut novel by James Stewart III, recounts fictionalized stories from the perspectives of his family members.
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The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! We can’t wait to welcome @jeannethornton.bsky.social, Kristina Andersson Bicher, Mac Crane, and James Stewart III 📚🌈🌷 RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Thank you to our May readers Andrew E. Colarusso, @leilataylor.bsky.social , @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @briangresko.bsky.social! We had a blast!
Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...
Sick Houses by Leila Taylor: 9781915672636 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home. Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Go...
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