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• Brooklyn Book Festival: Vu Tran, Andre Dubus III and Laura Lipman on Master Manipulators

  09-09-2015 21:12
  Sunday, September 20, 2015 1:00 pmBorough HallMaster Manipulators presented by the Brooklyn Public Library takes place at St. Francis College Auditorium. Vu Tran (Dragonfish), Andre Dubus III (Dirty Love), and Laura Lippman (Hush, Hush) explore the overt and covert ways characters bend others to their wills. An Oakland cop is blackmailed into tracking down his ex-wife, Suzy; men and women, driven by the desire for love, deceive themselves and their partners. A murderess shrewdly deceives a priva
  
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• Brooklyn Book Festival: Joseph E. Stiglitz on Unequal Societies

  09-09-2015 21:12
  Sunday, September 20, 2015 3:00 pmBorough HallBrooklyn Public Library presents Unequal Societies at Congregation Mt. Sinai. Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, and author of the Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them will be in a conversation about inequalities in the most successful country in the world and what is in the future ahead. Mr. Stiglitz will be in conversation with Darryl Pinckney, longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books.r
  
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• Brooklyn Book Festival: Jim Shepard, Mona Simpson, Asali Solomon: Young and Wise

  09-09-2015 21:12
  Sunday, September 20, 2015 4:00 pmBorough HallThis Brooklyn Book Festival Event takes place on the North Stage at Borough Hall. The narrators of Jim Shepard’s The Book of Aron, Mona Simpson’s Casebook and Asali Solomon’s Disgruntled are young, yet they face genocide, the spy’s conundrums, and a violent, stubborn exile. These indelible voices, crafted by three master writers, weave together innocence and experience as starkly as any poet or fabulist who came before them. M
  
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• Get a Fresh Start in Autumn with Blue Apron

  09-09-2015 20:00
  
  Sponsored By Blue Apron.Blue Apron offers fresh ingredients and great recipes delivered weekly to your home.Created By BlankSlateStuck in a summer cooking rut? You’re not alone. Summer socializing can make it hard to get your culinary act together. (We’ve barely been home since Memorial Day).
  At the moment it may feel too hot to turn on the stove, but autumn is only a few weeks away. Once cooler temperatures arrive, your kitchen will no longer feel like a sauna. Which means you
  
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• International Writers Series: Daniel Alarcón and Alejandro Zambra, hosted by Anderson Tepper

  09-09-2015 18:39
  Tuesday, November 10, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBorn in Lima, Peru and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Daniel Alarcón (pictured at left) has quickly established himself as one of the most important and influential of a new generation of Latin American writers, straddling both South and North America. He is the author of the novels Lost City Radio and At Night We Walk in Circles, and the story collection, War by Candlelight, from which his new graphic novel, City of Clowns (w
  
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• Your Ideal Week: September 10- September 16

  09-09-2015 17:22
  
  Pig out in a big way at Pig Island, which is landing in Red Hook this year on Saturday. Photo: Pig Island
  Well folks, it’s Wednesday again, and you know what that means: It’s time again for Your Ideal Week, our roundup of the best parties, shows, classes, readings, and other ways to keep yourself busy in and around Brooklyn for the next seven days. Although there’s never any shortage of action to cull from around here, it’s a big borough and there are boun
  
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• Deciders: Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism

  09-09-2015 16:52
  Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFrom the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, President Clinton’s former secretary of labor.read more
  
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• Deciders: Margo Jefferson on Negroland

  09-09-2015 16:52
  Tuesday, October 6, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAt once celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society.read more
  
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• Deciders: Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, and Melissa Harris-Perry on Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  09-09-2015 16:52
  Sunday, November 1, 2015 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterNearly a half-century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the octogenarian won the internet. Across America, people who weren’t even born when Ginsburg made her name are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute.read more
  
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• Deciders: Greg Grandin on Henry Kissinger

  09-09-2015 16:52
  Sunday, October 4, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterA new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current geopolitical stance. In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America—its never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home—we have to understand Kissinger.read more
  
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• Deciders: David Talbot on the CIA’s Allen Dulles

  09-09-2015 16:52
  Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFrom the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers, an explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the agency. Drawing on revelatory
  
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• Deciders: David Starkey on the Magna Carta

  09-09-2015 16:52
  Thursday, September 17, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAward-winning historian and television presenter David Starkey untangles historical and modern misconceptions about one of the founding documents of democracy, the Magna Carta. The demands made in the Magna Carta laid the foundation for the British constitution, influenced the American Revolution and the U.S. constitution, and continues to shape jurisprudential thinking about individual rights around the world today. Starkey is wel
  
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• BOROBEAT: Revelers shake their tail feathers at West Indian Day Parade

  09-09-2015 15:16
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Harry MacCormackBrooklyn DailyMore than a million people flocked to the Eastern Parkway on Monday to celebrate the borough’s Caribbean culture and community at the 48th annual West Indian American Day Parade.Revelers decked out in bright feathers and very little else danced to thumping music along the thoroughfare between Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Heights to Howard Avenue in Crown Heights, flanked by thousands
  
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• PARK SLOPE: Cops: Woman hurls chair at man

  09-09-2015 15:12
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Have a seatCops arrested a 24-year-old woman for hurling a seat at a man inside a Prospect Park playground off Empire Boulevard on Aug. 26.The victim told police that he was near Flatbush Avenue at 6:55 am when the woman handed flung the chair in his direction. Fortunately, the suspect’s aim was off, and the victim escaped without a mark, according to police.
  Panties pilferedA 6-foot-2 male lingerie lo
  
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• CRIME: Police: Woman attacks lady in robbery attempt

  09-09-2015 15:12
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Eric FaynbergBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateNot very lady-likePolice arrested a 25-year-old woman for allegedly assaulting an 18-year-old woman on W. 31st Street during an Aug. 31 failed robbery attempt.The arrested woman allegedly punched, kicked, and pushed the victim to the ground while trying to snatch the victim’s purse at 4:40 pm near Mermaid Avenue, police said. But the alleged robbery failed, and the
  
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• Cops arrest suspected hit-and-run driver in grizzly Boro Park crash

  09-09-2015 15:12
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyPolice arrested a Borough Park man who allegedly struck and killed a 59-year-old Borough Park woman with his minivan and then fled the scene on Sept. 6.The man was driving a white minivan on Ninth Avenue toward Green-Wood Cemetery at 12:26 am Sunday when he allegedly hit Marlene Zotti as she crossed the avenue mid-block, police said.The driver then allegedly turned onto 42nd Street and fled the scene, cops said.Emergency medical serv
  
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• CARROLL GARDENS: Violent cad punches woman in the head

  09-09-2015 15:12
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn Daily76th PrecinctCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red HookSockedA lout punched a stranger in the head after they got into an argument on Columbia Street on Sept. 5.
  The victim was between Nelson and Huntington streets in Red Hook at 10:30 am when the lummox started arguing with her and then punched her in the head, police said. Emergency medical workers took the woman to Methodist Hospital with cuts and swelling to the head, police said
  
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• BENSONHURST: Police: Robbery suspect beat store clerk

  09-09-2015 15:12
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachCable guyCops cuffed a man who they say stole an iPhone-4 cable from a New Utrecth Avenue store on Sept. 4, and then beat a guy behind the counter after he tried to stop the alleged thief.The victim told police that he was working the register between 70th Street and Bay Ridge Avenue at 9 am when he spotted the suspect fleeing with the phone cord. The victim tried his best to recover the sto
  
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• PROSPECT HEIGHTS: Jamaican me hungry! Eaters chow down in Caribbean patty-eating contest

  09-09-2015 06:00
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn DailyHe was the upper crust of the competition!An experienced competitive eater became the first ever Golden Krust Jamaican Patty Eating Contest champion in a chow-down in Prospect Heights on Sunday night, blitzing his five amateur opponents by ingesting a little over seven of the savory beef-filled hand pies in five minutes — and still leaving room for seconds, he said.“I feel great &mdas
  
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• NOT FOR NUTHIN’: Condemn Kim Davis, but for the right reasons

  09-09-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyState employees of Kentucky do not have the privilege of deciding who can get a marriage license or not based on their religious convictions.
  Kim Davis decided not to issue licenses based on her religious views when she refused to issue licenses to same sex couples. “God’s moral law conflicts with my job duties,” she told the federal judge at the hearing. “You can’t be separated from something that&
  
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• HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Lincoln tops Erasmus to start three-peat quest

  09-09-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyAbraham Lincoln’s 21 new starters watched the championship banner from last season get flipped over the end zone gate next to the one from 2013 before the season opener on Sept. 4.
  They proceeded to show they are a threat to add a third.
  The Railspitters football team overcame a slow start to turn back rival Erasmus Hall’s veteransquad 21–14 last Friday night in Coney Island. The game was a rematch of last ye
  
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