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  • How the Brooklyn Literary Scene Is Striving to Be More Inclusive

    An oral history of the struggle to make space for women writers and writers of color in Brooklyn

    Aug 17 - Anu Jindal
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    Brooklyn’s DIY Literary Spaces

    An oral history of how Brooklyn readings, events, and literary festivals came together with nothing but can-do spirit

    Aug 10 - Michael J Seidlinger
    brooklyn letters

    How to Build Your Own Small Press in Brooklyn

    This installment of our oral history project looks at DIY presses and magazines in the Brooklyn literary scene

    Aug 9 - Michael J Seidlinger
    brooklyn letters

    Brooklyn Literary Spaces That Have Survived Gentrification

    Writers explore where the borough’s artistic roots still thrive in part 2 of our oral history on gentrification in literary Brooklyn

    Aug 3 - Jennifer Baker
    brooklyn letters

    How Gentrification Changed the Brooklyn Literary Scene

    Brooklyn-based writers discuss what’s been lost to demographic and cultural change in this oral history

    Aug 2 - Jennifer Baker
    brooklyn letters

    What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Brooklyn Writer’?

    What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Brooklyn Writer’?Members of the Brooklyn literary scene try to figure out what “the Brooklyn literary scene” even is, in part 2 of our oral history

    Jul 27 - Anu Jindal
    brooklyn letters

    How Do Writers Who Grew Up in Brooklyn Feel About Its Literary Makeover?

    Transplants and natives talk about the early days of literary Brooklyn in the first installment of our oral history

    Jul 26 - Anu Jindal
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