The writer Harlan Ellison had a long, wide-ranging career that spanned science fiction short stories (such as “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”), television scripts (like the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”), and post-apocalyptic novels (including “A Boy and His Dog”). However, few know about his first novel, “Web of the City”—a gritty, realistic novel about […]

Shortly after author Sally Frances moved into Carroll Gardens in the early 1990s, a neighbor told her about overhearing a fight between an adult brother and sister in the backyard of their shared brownstone next-door. “The sister says, ‘You can’t hit me—I’m not your wife!’” Complex family dynamics lie at the heart of Frances’s debut novel, Carroll Gardens Story. Set […]