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.
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The Bay Ridge Canon: Lawrence Block Crime Novels (Interview)
Talking to the lauded crime writer about the Matthew Scudder books set in Bay Ridge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An Introduction to Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino’s Bay Ridge
A little context for the life and work of our greatest homegrown writer.