Nov. reader Eve M. Kahn interviewed in Vogue about her book Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams www.vogue.com/article/mary...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Read an interview with @deenaelg.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com about her novel Dust Settles North electricliterature.com/a-story-of-f...

@shelf-awareness.com calls Laura Venita Green’s Sister Creatures an “ . . . arresting, unnerving, and wise debut novel.” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Ditmas Lit is Wed! Read an interview with @leahumansky.bsky.social about her poetry collection On Tyrant in @adroitjournal.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/2024/06/17/a...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Entertainment Weekly calls Anna Rasche’s novel The Stone Witch of Florence “A twisty, historical witchy escape.” www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! @nytimes.com raves that reader @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s novel Sacrificial Animals, “Establishes Pedersen as a future master of speculative fiction.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...

Check out Oct. reader Tierney Oberhammer’s short story Marquis published in “swamp pink” swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/mar...

Ditmas Lit is this Wed. 10/22! In their starred review, @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @megancummins.bsky.social novel Atomic Hearts “Impressive - works equally well as a gritty coming-of-age drama & an insightful story about the nature of writing.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780593875353

The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Thank you to our September readers Kerry Cullen, @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Allison C. Meier, and Patrick Ryan! We had a blast!

Tonight! Join us at The Urbane Arts Club for our September show with readings by @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Patrick Ryan, Kerry Cullen, and Allison C. Meier. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 9/24! We’re excited to welcome Kerry Cullen, Patrick Ryan, Allison C. Meier, and @cherrylousy.bsky.social! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Belle Ling’s poem This Little Fish in @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/this-...

Read an excerpt from @rubenwrites.bsky.social’s debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven in @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Read Anthony Thomas Lombardi’s poem “God loves everybody, don’t remind me” in Salt Hill salthilljournal.net/god-loves-ev...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 7/23! @electricliterature.com interviews reader Heather McCalden about her memoir The Observable Universe electricliterature.com/heather-mcca...

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 7/23 at The Urbane Arts Club! We’re excited to welcome Belle Ling, Heather McCalden, @rubenwrites.bsky.social & Anthony Thomas Lombardi! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! @autostraddle.bsky.social calls reader Mac Crane’s novel A Sharp Endless Need “ . . . vibrant and grimy and hot and poetic and aching.” www.autostraddle.com/a-sharp-endl...

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 6/25! In their starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls @jeannethornton.bsky.social’s A/S/L “A dazzlingly creative and heartfelt novel.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! Reader James Stewart III spoke with @chicagoreader.com about his debut novel Defiant Acts chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...

The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! We can’t wait to welcome @jeannethornton.bsky.social, Kristina Andersson Bicher, Mac Crane, and James Stewart III 📚🌈🌷 RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Thank you to our May readers Andrew E. Colarusso, @leilataylor.bsky.social , @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @briangresko.bsky.social! We had a blast!

Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader and Taylor and Co. bookstore owner Andrew E. Colarusso’s book Black Body Index, published by @bookworks.bsky.social bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

@shelf-awareness.com praises reader @shayneterry.bsky.social’s memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account, declaring it’s “. . . for any reader who has given birth, endured pain, or known someone who has (in other words: nearly everyone).” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Timothy Ree’s poem “Stations” in The Cortland Review www.cortlandreview.org/issue/68/ree...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls reader @joannanovak1986.bsky.social’s poetry collection Domestirexia “Propulsive . . . Thanks to Novak’s language, these pages overflow with life’s complexities, terrors, and fragmentations.” softskull.com/books/domest...

@therumpus.net calls April reader Anton Solomonik’s short story collection Realistic Fiction “Stellar . . . Solomonik spins fictions that feel like jokes before you realize you are devastated by them.” www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/reali...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 4/23! Check out reader @dianemehta.bsky.social’s essay On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante From the Wilderness in Harvard Divinity Bulletin bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/on-assignmen...

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

. @electriclit.bsky.social calls reader Tyler Wetherall’s novel Amphibian “A coming of age story both tender and sophisticated. Amphibian deftly captures the in-between of girlhood and womanhood.” www.tylerwetherall.com

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow! Check out reader Niv Sekar’s comic The Future Saints www.nivsekar.com/futuresaints

@newyorker.com calls reader Tracy O’Neill’s Woman of Interest a “Dark, deeply funny memoir . . . Dashell Hammett meets Fleabag.” www.tracyoneill.net

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 2/26! Check out reader Holly Baxter’s essay “How to Write a Divorce Book When You’re Happily Married” in Elle Magazine www.elle.com/culture/book...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 2/26! We’re so excited to welcome readers Tracy O’Neill, Holly Baxter, Niv Sekar, and Tyler Wetherall.

We had so much fun at our January reading! Thank you to Amanda Miller, @nicoletreska.bsky.social, Irvin Weathersby Jr, and Mateo Askaripour for sharing their work.

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Amanda Miller’s essay Saving Astro in @the-thievingmagpie.bsky.social thievingmagpie.org/amanda-mille...

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow! @readbookpage.bsky.social calls reader Irvin Weathersby Jr.’s In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space “indispensable”. www.bookpage.com/reviews/in-o...

Kirkus Reviews calls January trader @nicoletreska.bsky.social’s memoir Wonderland “A poignantly affecting memoir about surviving and thriving.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Ditmas Lit is next Wed. 1/22! Kirkus Review calls reader Mateo Askaripour’s latest novel The Great Hemisphere “Propulsive . . . A page-turning vision of the future made all too plausible by our volitile present.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713716...

Our first show of 2025 is on Wed. Jan. 22nd! We’re excited to welcome @nicoletreska.bsky.social, Mateo Askaripour, Amanda Miller, and Irvin Weathersby Jr.

In their review of her debut novel, @nytimes.com calls reader Jenny Xie’s Holding Pattern “exquisite and wise”. www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/b...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Kirkus Reviews calls reader Ledia Xhoga’s novel Misinformation “Thrilling . . . this debut novel explores the ways traumas of the past can impact how we experience the present.” www.lediaxhoga.com/home

Reader Joan Larkin’s 6th poetry collection Old Stranger was published in August by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. Eileen Myles says, “There’s so much masterpiece here . . . this is why one is a poet all their life. To make this.” www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/ol...

We’re so excited for our 8th anniversary show this Wed. 12/18!In their starred review, Kirkus Review calls reader Nina St. Pierre’s memoir Love is a Burning Thing “An exhilarating, heart-rending, familial portrait.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The 8th anniversary of Ditmas Lit is Wed. Dec. 18th! We’re excited to welcome readers Joan Larkin, Nina St. Pierre, Ledia Xhoga, and Jenny Xie ☃️❄️