You may have guessed it from all the grilled cheese trucks clogging the streets, but Brooklyn is increasingly popular with white people. Out of the 25 zip codes in the country with the biggest increases of white population over the past 10 years, Brooklyn has four, according to The Awl. Read More
Biographers: Yes. (“If you believe that God is in the details — and all biographers do,” says Kitty Kelley, “then Twitter will be a godsend!”)
William Styron: Yes. (“The author of Sophie’s Choice and Lie Down in Darkness has been tweeting [and re-tweeting] for more than a week…. Styron has been Read More
She never thought she’d get married. In her own Park Slope living room. On a Friday night. Or that her mother, many miles away, would lecture her about her choice of groom: one of "them," an American. She never thought she’d have to keep so many secrets–from her family, from potential employers, from the U.S. Read More
Decades of so-called white flight from American cities, including New York, are ending, according to a Wall Street Journal article on Saturday by Conor Dougherty. This end has spawned a fresh set of clashes and challenges:
[I]n Brooklyn, in a majority African-American section of the borough, Councilwoman Letitia James says a handful of predominantly Read More
