Today at the BBF

Today at the Brooklyn Book Festival I saw Chris Lehmann (Rich People Things) speak about the role of debt in our current politics. The best points were more political than historical. The talk was held in the beautiful Brooklyn Historical Society and hosted by a...

The Brooklyn Book Overload (Festival)

This year’s Brooklyn Book Festival is so popular that it is actually impossible to attend a party, and will probably be impossible to go to any of the panels because of the wall of bodies.  Does this mean that literature is making a come back?  I think that will...