Brooklyn writers bloc

The zine maker and host of “The C-Word” podcast has no time for shame.

The New York Magazine nightlife columnist needs to bone up on Nora Ephron — and requires another glass of cold bubbly.

“The human race is consistently awful, naive, hilarious and kind,” the poet reminds us in our summer writer interview series.

In the fourth installment of our summer series of chats with Brooklyn writers, we meet a novelist with a piercing eye.

In the third installment of our summer series about the habits of Brooklyn scribes, we meet a cultural critic and erotic fiction writer.

In the second installment of our summer reading series, we meet freelance food and culture writer Aliza Abarbanel.

Part one of a regular series in which we ask borough writers about what they’ll be reading, drinking and daydreaming this summer.