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KingsbridgeVan Cortlandt Village
January 30, 2024 Beth Adelman

Scenes from Childhood, 1965

In this memorable short story, an independent-minded girl comes of age in the 1960s in Van Cortlandt Village

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Entire Borough
April 20, 2023 Simi Raji

Uptown & The Bronx: A Review of BX Writers Anthology, Volume 1

Through the contributions of Bronxites, this 2019 anthology amplifies the heartbeat of the borough

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ConcourseSouth Bronx
February 16, 2023 Rodney Torreson

“Lofty Geometries”: Poetry of the Bronx Bombers

Walt Whitman once said, “I see great things in baseball.” Seventy years later, at seven years old, I saw great things in the New York Yankees

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Portrait of author Afua Ansong
Morrisania
July 22, 2022 The Literary Bronx

“I Really Do See the Bronx as a Second Ghana”: An Interview with Afua Ansong, Author of Black Ballad

Afua Ansong’s recent chapbook, Black Ballad, explores Black female experience and Ghanaian identity in New York City

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Highbridge
April 21, 2022 G.R.

Crossing Highbridge: Faith and Storytelling in the Irish Bronx

In her 2001 memoir, Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America, traditional Irish songs are the constant backdrop to family conversations and home life.

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Rodriguez portrait
South Bronx
February 3, 2022 Kelly Golden

In the Land of No Good Choices: Rereading Abraham Rodriguez’s Debut Collection Thirty Years On

Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.’s short-story collection The Boy without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx (1992)—which this year celebrates its

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Detail from book cover of My Life as a List
West Bronx
July 14, 2021 Kristina Boyer

My (Bronx) Life as a List

In a spirited, unconventional memoir written in the form of a list, Linda Rosenkrantz explores her Jewish childhood in the Bronx

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Norwood
April 20, 2020 Davaughn M. Riley

Noel Quiñones: The Poetry of an Afro-Boricua from the Bronx

“The Bronx been burning and you’re all pr-pr-prone to Alzheimer’s!” (Quiñones, “The Get Down,” 1:28). Whenever people think of the

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Morrisania
April 1, 2020 Jeremy Forbes

The Black Bronx: Realizing “A Dream Deferred”

Local residents and people all around the world have identified the Bronx as the city’s “worst” borough for decades. When

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Hunts Point
March 17, 2020 Sara LaMattina

A Spray-painted Response to Nuyorican Poetry in Hunts Point

If you’ve ever heard of Hunts Point in the Bronx, New York, there’s a good chance you associate it with

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