Join us at the Brooklyn Book Festival Kick-Off!
Raise a glass as the Brooklyn Book Festival kicks off at Pioneer Works on Monday, September 10
Raise a glass as the Brooklyn Book Festival kicks off at Pioneer Works on Monday, September 10
“to hear the arabic phrases i haven’t heard since mama died, and to remember so much from them. to feel loved because i feel seen.”
My husband liked her because her ears looked like Yoda’s.
“Hoping if these days feel dark to you (as they often do to me), there are also sparks and blazes and fragments of light to stay with you.”
“There are so many ways to tell any story, just as there are thousands of ways to play a Mozart melody.”
Soft Skull is hosting five of our authors for a free evening of readings, drinks, music, and revelry!
“My father is the first thing I think about when I consider the importance of not being silent.”
“Preserving a child’s viewpoint while attending to the adult reader seemed like a fun challenge.”
“The story had always been about two halves of a couple using each other to get what they want.”
“Writing these letters is my way of laying siege to the silences that I have learned to harbor.”
“I like to think of the people I personally know placed in deep history.”
“I wrote almost euphorically, allowing my memories, my knowledge, and my imagination to meld endlessly, freely.”
“Writing can be a lonely endeavor, and it is wonderful to now be connected to these other emerging writers.”
Last month on WMFA, a podcast where writers talk writing
“I wanted to write about the experience of my first language, about learning how to ask through hands before words.”
“A story comes to me like a match and I’ll write the first draft frantically until it burns out.”
“I was fascinated by the isolation of musher life, and the loneliness that often accompanies it.”
James Kelman’s new novel is on sale today, and we have the perfect music to go along with it.