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Brooklyn Book Festival: Brooklyn Quarterly—Narrating the Divide

Narrating the Divide: An evening of storytelling and social transformation from The Brooklyn Quarterly

In a recent op-ed for CNN, novelist and local business owner Tanwi Nandini Islam wrote: “Brooklyn is a borough that’s divided, but not only between rich vs. poor, old vs. young, liberal vs. progressive…It’s divided between the Brooklyn that is celebrated and the Brooklyn that is neglected and ignored.”

To narrate a divided city—in all its flawed dimensions—can be an act of revolution, rupture, or reconciliation. To celebrate the third year of The Brooklyn Quarterly and the Brooklyn Book Festival, this event (free and open to the public) will be an evening of readings, provocations, and festive mingling around the question of how to tell the story of a divided borough (and increasingly divided cities across the country) and the impact those stories can have on the everyday lives we live.











When: Wed., Sep. 14, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: BookCourt
163 Court St., Brooklyn

Price: Free
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Narrating the Divide: An evening of storytelling and social transformation from The Brooklyn Quarterly

In a recent op-ed for CNN, novelist and local business owner Tanwi Nandini Islam wrote: “Brooklyn is a borough that’s divided, but not only between rich vs. poor, old vs. young, liberal vs. progressive…It’s divided between the Brooklyn that is celebrated and the Brooklyn that is neglected and ignored.”

To narrate a divided city—in all its flawed dimensions—can be an act of revolution, rupture, or reconciliation. To celebrate the third year of The Brooklyn Quarterly and the Brooklyn Book Festival, this event (free and open to the public) will be an evening of readings, provocations, and festive mingling around the question of how to tell the story of a divided borough (and increasingly divided cities across the country) and the impact those stories can have on the everyday lives we live.

Buy tickets/get more info now