The Literary Bronx

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

Orchard Beach, also known as the Bronx or Puerto Rican Riviera, is a man-made beach situated along the Long Island

In a tense moment early in Tom Wolfe’s satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Sherman McCoy speeds through

Going back to the 1970s, the Bronx, especially the southern part of the borough, was looked upon by many as

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