Lost And Found: Stories From New York

Lost And Found: Stories From New York, the latest anthology from Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood is now available at the following online booksellers and at your friendly neighborhood independent bookstore. Powells Amazon Barnes and Noble   Lost and Found, Volume II of the series, is a mosaic of voices, drawing on the diverse experiences of such […]

Reading Series 3/12

After conducting an extensive series of discussions with all of you, we have determined that Thursday, March 12 at 8:00 pm is the time that works best for all of our schedules. Friends of Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood ELLEN SCHECTER, CAROLINE HENLEY, and PATRICK GALLAGHER will read at that time. As usual, the place is Happy […]

Neighbors

I first went to the northernmost point in Brooklyn after reading an article in The New Yorker about the oil spill there – 17 million gallons, half again as big as the Exxon Valdez – which at a geologic pace, made its way from a long gone Standard Oil holding tank in the eastern part […]

I haven’t been on a bus with a toilet since I was fourteen and my parents took me to the Catskills that one memorable summer I learned how to French kiss from Flossie. Ah, Flossie, whose real name was Florence, how that name comes up still mixing memories with desire. She was the sixteen-year-old daughter […]

Before and After: Stories From New York

“Before and After: Stories From New York vividly captures the fissure of a place suddenly and utterly transformed… It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate or more moving collection of voices.” —San Francisco Chronicle This is a book of true stories about New York, written, for the most part, by the people for whom the […]

Before and After: Stories From New York

"Before and After: Stories From New York vividly captures the fissure of a place suddenly and utterly transformed… It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate or more moving collection of voices." —San Francisco Chronicle This is a book of true stories about New York, written, for the most part, by the people for whom the […]

Mr B at Mo Pitkin’s on Avenue A

It is our enormous pleasure to announce that Sunday, Nov. 12 at 8:00pm, four of the many outstanding contributors to Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood will be reading live at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction in the East Village. This is the first in a monthly series of collaborations between the Neighborhood and Mo Pitkin’s that will […]

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Story sent to Mr.Beller at Sat Oct 22 01:17:24 2005 —————————————– Name: Christian Lewis E-mail: —————————————– Where it happened: Lower Manhattan at large —- When it happened: Fall 2004 —- What happened: The Mountain of Manhattan by Christian Lewis It turns out Earth is flat. And there’s a mountain in Manhattan. I found out last […]

Frank Davidson

** Hasn’t Detroit suffered enough? Without being included in Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood? To that, we provide the simple answer that the purpose of the new Detroit-themed section of the website is not to draw attention to the ways in which the city has suffered in recent decades, which are well known. Anyone who has seen […]

“Athens has got ruins, Rome has got ruins. Ours are bigger, but there’s no guidebook to them.” —Lowell Boileau Part collage, part museum, part mausoleum, and all wrapped around a series of tightly-organized online “tours,” detroityes.com depicts Detroit’s past and present in a library of over 1000 vivid photographic images. For many, the centerpiece of […]