The Literary Bronx

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

In Liz Murray’s memoir Breaking Night (2010), the author gives a vivid portrait of her life in the Bronx, growing

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