Tag Archives: Brooklyn
Midnight in the Snow
Last night another foot of snow fell on Brooklyn. When I was a kid in Maryland, on a night when it snowed my mom would bundle my sister and brothers up (and my dad, sometimes, too), and we’d walk from our house along Riva Road to the tiny convenience mart that we always called simply “the little store.” There, we’d provision up in the hopes that we’d be snowed in the next day. Even after I moved to New York, [...]
Halloween, Odd Trail Style
I am a nerd for history and a nerd for weird stuff. I like the forgotten, I like the lost. I like things that have the feeling of the vaguely strange and secret. And I love, love, love my borough of Brooklyn, which has been home to me now for almost ten years. So this year for Halloween, Nathan and I decided to do something we’d been meaning to do for a while. We signed up for a tour of [...]
Brooklyn Book Festival Schedule is Up, and I Am On It!
I am so excited about this I can barely take it. The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming in just a little over a week, and this year I get to play with the big kids. I’ll be part of a panel called “Making It” in the Youth Stoop Series, joining the incredible Mitali Perkins and the awesome Francisco X. Stork to discuss stories of survival. Mark your calendars and come out and play–the Festival has events running Friday through Sunday [...]
My Book, for Really and for True, or: The Best Reason I Ever Had for Going to Pieces in Public
When I was in first grade and got picked as Central Elementary School’s “Writer of the Week,” I was pretty sure that, with a little hard work, I would be published before I graduated to middle school. I’m sure I’m not the only one with something like this in his or her past. I’ve wanted to write a book ever since I was little. For a while, in high school and college, I wrote plays instead, and for a while [...]
Bookish Treasures: Today’s Weird Used Book Finds
A couple days ago I was hauling home my most recent bagful of Amazing Stuff found at SoHo’s Housing Works Bookstore and it occurred to me that my used bookstore finds might make for some interesting posts. Here, therefore, is the first installment of Bookish Treasures, featuring the incomparable Sprocket, who likes to curl up with a good book so much she often finds it necessary to actually lay on or near them, especially if I am trying to take [...]
Save the City Reliquary!
Calling all people who like weird, cool stuff. One of my favorite museums, the City Reliquary, needs help right away to stay afloat. I know there are a lot of organizations asking for money right now, but bear with me and think about setting aside, I don’t know, your Starbucks money or something for a couple days and donating it to a great cause that isn’t likely to get a lot of press. The City Reliquary is a cabinet of [...]
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I wrote this book. Daniela Volpi took this picture.
Messing around on Pinterest
