TONIGHT, 7PM: Join us at @crowninnreadings.bsky.social Emerging Writers Night, an offshoot of Franklin Park Reading Series, for readings by Annabelle Allen, Carissa Chesanek & Stephanie Leke + featured authors @aaantons.bsky.social,Tenacity Plys & Devyn Defoe! 724 Franklin Ave. #crownheights #free

The countdown is on! Only 12 days left to submit your work to our Annual Poetry Contest: www.narrativemagazine.com/eighteenth-a...

We had a blast at Franklin Park on Monday, celebrating the release of Scott McClanahan’s novel Fights! Huge thanks to Scott and our other stellar readers, @geoffrickly.bsky.social, Michael Seidlinger, David Simmons, Hallie Elizabeth Newton, and Kathy Joyce! 🗓️Our next event is Aug. 10!

TONIGHT, 8PM: At the Franklin Park Reading Series, we’re celebrating lit legend Scott McClanahan’s new novel Fights! and hosting trailblazing indie press stars @geoffrickly.bsky.social, Michael Seidlinger, David Simmons, Hallie Elizabeth Newton, and Kathy Joyce! Free Admission! 618 St. Johns Pl, BK

This is this Sunday!

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 4w ago

The pilot I wrote for my first novel, The Survivalists (black lawyer falls in with black brooklynite doomsday preppers) will be performed live on 7/19 at dynasty typewriter in LA & Molly from Insecure is playing Aretha! I am deceased! Tickets: calendar.dynastytypewriter.com/shows/no-not...

NBCC board member Rebecca Morgan Frank covered seven July poetry collections for Literary Hub:

Break to Sing: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in July

“Elegy, sing the bones to break / the cycle. The cycle: Sing to Break. Break to Sing.” –Philip B. Williams’ Lift Every Voice * This month, we see poets collaborating and conversing beyond words on …

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THIS MONDAY, JULY 13, 8PM: Franklin Park Reading Series celebrates Scott McClanahan and his new novel Fights! He'll be joined by @geoffrickly.bsky.social, Michael Seidlinger, David Simmons, Hallie Elizabeth Newton & Kathy Joyce. #Free! 618 St. Johns Pl, #crownheights www.facebook.com/share/1EAi1x...

New episode of Books Up Close out with THEE @garthgreenwell.bsky.social! 💙https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-37-garth-greenwell-small-rain/id1792209740?i=1000776247022

Evil Dead Burn is a horrifying family drama before all the undead even get involved. @leahschnelbach.bsky.social reviews the latest addition to the iconic series, where no traumatic backstory can save you from an open dishwasher 🍴

Evil Dead Burn is an Extreme, Gruesome, Darkly Fun Addition to the Series - Reactor

It turns out there are a LOT of uses for fountain pens.

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Monday’s Franklin Park Reading Series Summer Launch was a blast! Huge thanks to our mesmerizing readers, Camille Perri, @catfitzpatrick.net, Natalie Adler, M Lin, Chiwan Choi, and Honor Jones, and lots of ❤️ to our anazing audience! 🗓️Next event is July 13!

A student is asking me about open mic reading series in the NYC area—any recommendations?

TONIGHT, 8PM: We're launching our summer season at Franklin Park Reading Series w/stellar authors Camille Perri, @catfitzpatrick.net, Natalie Adler, M Lin, Chiwan Choi & Honor Jones! Drink specials + raffle for books & merch! #Free! 618 St. Johns Pl, #crownheights. www.facebook.com/share/14gMwT...

I had a great time talking to Betsy Crane for Episode 32 of Radio Free Mike @elizabethcrane.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

"To write this novel, I built out a four-hour-long playlist that tracked the plot, beat for beat. Musical cues helped me escalate tension, or keep the energy at a simmer..." @Natalie Adler shared a playlist for her debut novel Waiting on a Friend largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/29/n...

*️⃣Please note: Due to tonight’s 🏀Knicks game, this month’s Franklin Park Reading Series event has been pushed off to June 22, when we’ll be hosting Camille Perri, @catfitzpatrick.net, Natalie Adler, M Lin, Chiwan Choi, and Honor Jones! www.facebook.com/share/1D6Bmg...

I talked to to Hannah Lillith Assadi about writing PARADISO 17, a novel inspired by the life of her Palestinian father who was expelled during the Nakba and traveled the world searching for home. countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Processing: How Hannah Lillith Assadi Wrote Paradiso 17

The author on writing through grief, the ghost of setting, and adding a layer of dream to reality

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TONIGHT, 7-9PM: Join us at the Crown Inn for our first Poets Night, featuring @ceciliakcecilia.bsky.social, Abi Pollokoff, Natalya Sukhonos, Andres Cordoba, and Marielena O. Gomez! 724 Franklin Ave. #crownheights #free

dive into the summer book proposal generator—now enrolling bb!!!! 📚☀️ register here: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/summ... @shipmanagency.bsky.social

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll interviewed Adrian Nathan West about translating two of Mario Vargas Llosa's novels for Vol. 1 Brooklyn:

Adrian Nathan West on Translating Mario Vargas Llosa

What does it mean to translate the work of a Nobel laureate? That’s a task that writer and translator Adrian Nathan West has had to consider: among his body of work are translations of two no…

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Huge thanks to Monday's phenomenal Franklin Park Reading Series stars, Xochitl Gonzalez, @emilynemens.bsky.social, Monika Ostrowska, @zachpowers.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, and Kevin Sampsell, and lots of ❤️ to our amazing audience! 📆Next event is June 8!

THIS MONDAY, 7-9PM: Join us at the Crown Inn for Poets Night (every 3rd Monday)! Enjoy readings by poets @ceciliakcecilia.bsky.social, Abi Pollokoff, Natalya Sukhonos, Andres Cordoba and Marielena O. Gomez, drink specials & backyard vibes! 724 Franklin Ave., btwn Sterling & Park #Free #crownheights

TONIGHT, 8PM: The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts acclaimed authors Xochitl Gonzalez, @emilynemens.bsky.social, Monika Ostrowska, @zachpowers.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, and Kevin Sampsell for a night of fresh fiction and poetry! www.facebook.com/share/18KcUw... #Free #crownheights

. @theflytrapmedia.com republished my piece for Bitch from a few years ago about postpartum psychosis in The Upstairs House by @finejuli.bsky.social and Nightbitch by @rachelyoder.bsky.social, now with added updates about the movie adaptation, and Die My Love www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst...

Mother Monsters

"Nightbitch," "The Upstairs House," and "Die My Love" bring postpartum psychosis and depression to the big screen.

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Huge thanks to Tyler Wetherall for featuring tonight’s @crowninnreadings.bsky.social launch in her excellent Reading the City newsletter! readingthecity.substack.com/p/126-readin... #crownheights

TONIGHT, 7PM: Launch of Crown Inn Reading Series for emerging writers, cohosted by Franklin Park Reading Series! Readers: @deirdrekoala.bsky.social @jtprice.bsky.social & Wil Turner + featured authors @ellomelissa.bsky.social @sashafletcher.bsky.social. Beer specials, custom cocktails! #crownheights

Met Gala? No gracias. Go buy my horror novel TINY THREADS about fashion, predators, and capitalism. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723976...

Tiny Threads by Lilliam Rivera: 9780593600498 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In this sinister, slow-burn novel of supernatural suspense, a young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of high-stakes fashion. “Lilliam Rivera...

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"A lot of what I find very worthwhile are pursuits that are full of friction... This notion that everything is supposed to get more and more convenient simply because it can is really poisonous to the development of taste and the work of making art."

Book editors and Hagfish co-publishers Julia Ringo and Naomi Huffman on the joy of discovery – The Creative Independent

Book editors and Hagfish co-publishers Julia Ringo and Naomi Huffman discuss reading as a communal and private pleasure, making a commitment to the people you work with, and feeling empowered by indep...

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At the MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp exhibit, what all the works on display share “is a disregard for capital and for the way it shapes or encroaches on artistic practice, corrupting the freedom of the mind,” Hilton Als writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yzOn0t

The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp

How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.

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So pumped for this!

Penina Roth@peninaroth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

⭐Monday, May 11, 8pm⭐:Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series to hear fresh fiction & poetry from Xochitl Gonzalez, @emilynemens.bsky.social, Monika Ostrowska, @zachpowers.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social and Kevin Sampsell! #Free www.facebook.com/share/1Ajm3H... 618 St. Johns Pl #crownheights

This Monday, May 4, 7pm: Join us for the launch of our emerging writers/poetry series at the Crown Inn in #crownheights! #Free!

Crown Inn Reading Series@crowninnreadings.bsky.social · 4mo ago

MONDAY, MAY 4, 7-9pm: Join us for the @crowninnreadings.bsky.social inaugural Emerging Writers Night! Readings by @deirdrekoala.bsky.social, @jtprice.bsky.social and Wil Turner + featured authors @ellomelissa.bsky.social and @sashafletcher.bsky.social. #FreeAdmission, custom cocktails! #crownheights