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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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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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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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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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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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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Bronx Roots: Successful Bronxites Share Their Stories
The best people grew up in the Bronx. Okay… maybe that was a bit too broad of a statement. What
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The Pygmy in the Bronx Zoo
In the early twentieth century, a human was exhibited in the same cage as monkeys in the Bronx Zoo. The
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“Cause You Can’t Stop the Hustle”: Liz Murray’s Bronx Success Story
In Liz Murray’s memoir Breaking Night (2010), the author gives a vivid portrait of her life in the Bronx, growing
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Peggy Robles-Alvarado: The Courage of a Bronx Latina Poet
In the poetry collection Conversations with My Skin (2011), Peggy Robles-Alvarado shares her resilient story of becoming pregnant at fifteen
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