24 Sep 2019 The Bay Ridge Canon: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (interview) Talking to the author of one of the year’s buzziest books about its use of Bay Ridge as one of many settings. ByHenry Stewart119Views10 minRead time
03 Jan 2017 The Bay Ridge Canon: Lawrence Block Crime Novels (Interview) Talking to the lauded crime writer about the Matthew Scudder books set in Bay Ridge. ByHenry Stewart46Views8 minRead time
19 Sep 2016 The Bay Ridge Canon: The Narrows by Kenneth H. Brown (Interview) An interview with the author of the best Bay Ridge novel you never read. ByHenry Stewart35Views7 minRead time
19 Oct 2015 The Bay Ridge Canon: Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby, Jr. The novelist rarely wrote explicitly about his native Bay Ridge. Except in his short stories. ByHenry Stewart44Views15 minRead time
05 Aug 2015 The Bay Ridge Canon: Virgin With Child by Tom McDonough (Interview) The cameraman-turned-novelist talks to us at length about growing up in the neighborhood and then leaving it and writing about it. ByHenry Stewart54Views44 minRead time
24 Jul 2015 The Bay Ridge Canon: Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille An ongoing study of books and movies set in the neighborhood. This time, bestselling popular fiction about a post-Vietnam court martial set at Fort Hamilton. ByHenry Stewart46Views8 minRead time
06 Jul 2015 Did a Cult Writer Grow Up in Bay Ridge and Then Lie About It? Novelist, Digger and counterculture hero Emmett Grogan grew up on 79th Street and Fourth Avenue. Not that he ever admitted it. ByHenry Stewart50Views11 minRead time
07 May 2015 An Introduction to Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino’s Bay Ridge A little context for the life and work of our greatest homegrown writer. ByHenry Stewart58Views9 minRead time
