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Bay Ridge Canon

The Bay Ridge Canon: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (interview)

September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 Henry  Arts, Culture  Ask Again Yes, Bay Ridge Canon, Mary Beth Keane

Talking to the author of one of the year’s buzziest books about its use of Bay Ridge as one of many settings.

Lawrence Block Bay Ridge

The Bay Ridge Canon: Lawrence Block Crime Novels (Interview)

January 3, 2017February 12, 2018 Henry  Arts, Culture  A Walk Among the Tombstones, Bay Ridge Canon, Colonial Road, Lawrence Block, novels, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

Talking to the lauded crime writer about the Matthew Scudder books set in Bay Ridge.

The Narrows novel

The Bay Ridge Canon: The Narrows by Kenneth H. Brown (Interview)

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 Henry  Arts, Culture  Bay Ridge Canon, books, Kenneth H. Brown, novels, the Narrows

An interview with the author of the best Bay Ridge novel you never read.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

The Bay Ridge Canon: Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby, Jr.

October 19, 2015September 14, 2016 Henry  Arts, Culture  Bay Ridge Canon, Bay Ridge Theatre, Hubert Selby, short stories, Song of the Silent Snow

The novelist rarely wrote explicitly about his native Bay Ridge. Except in his short stories.

Tom McDonough novelist

The Bay Ridge Canon: Virgin With Child by Tom McDonough (Interview)

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 Henry  Arts, Culture  Bay Ridge Canon, cinematography, Light Years, Our Lady of Angels, Tom McDonough, Virgin with Child

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

July 24, 2015September 14, 2016 Henry  Arts, Culture  Bay Ridge Canon, Denyse Wharf, Fort Hamilton, Fort Hamilton army base, Fort Hamilton High School, Harbor Defense Museum, Nelson DeMille, Verrazano Bridge, Word of Honor

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.

Emmett Grogan

Did a Cult Writer Grow Up in Bay Ridge and Then Lie About It?

July 6, 2015October 23, 2015 Henry  Arts, Culture  Bay Ridge Canon, Dean Street, Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, Royal Poinciana

Novelist, Digger and counterculture hero Emmett Grogan grew up on 79th Street and Fourth Avenue. Not that he ever admitted it.

Gilbert Sorrentino books about Bay Ridge and elsewhere

An Introduction to Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino’s Bay Ridge

May 7, 2015September 14, 2016 Henry  Arts, Culture, History  Bay Ridge Canon, Gilbert Sorrentino, Hubert Selby, Steelwork

A little context for the life and work of our greatest homegrown writer.

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