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Tag: books

This is what $10,000 worth of tattoos looks like?

In a new book, heavily inked Williamsburgians reveal the high price of a calligraphed pelvis.

Micro-swaponomics at Prospect Height’s tiny free library

At the intersection of Neat and BAWWWWWW in Prospect Heights sits the Little Free Library, one of those good-faith-in-your-fellow-neighbors community…

Inside the Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society

Have you guys noticed that it's been really effing hot lately? Like, so hot you just want to walk around…

This author says going vegan can save you $4,000 a year

Harlem-based author Victoria Moran talks about how to go vegan without blowing your budget on soy cheese and meat substitutes.

In your 20s and crashing with mom and dad? Congrats, you’re a literary trend!

If Jay McInerney had written The Great New York Novel 30 years later, it would have been called Bright Lights,…

Get your Fatty ‘Cue for free tonight

There's an event tonight in Dumbo that no self-respecting brokavore is going to want to sit out: Zak Pelaccio's cookbook launch, featuring…

BK Public Library eBooks: extremely easy and incredibly free

if you haven't partaken of the Brooklyn Public Library's eBook catalog, you're missing out on the deeply satisfying experience of…

25 gifts under $25, No. 9: Missed connections, lost and found

Missed Connections fascinate because they say something about the nature of urban love, optimism and the need to believe the…

‘Literary Brooklyn’ book giveaway and party

Brokelyn is giving away three copies to Literary Brooklyn, Evan Hughes' new chronicle of the borough's writer's scene, from Walt…

Shush up your fines: April library amnesty

Been hiding your shame by stuffing that overdue copy of Mocking Jay under your bed for two months? Suck it…