more about: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Dear Bookies, I didn’t remember much of Books Four and Five from the time I read them at age 11. The first reading was all about the period details, like petticoats and Jewish rye. But this [...]

Dear Bookies: Yesterday, December 15, would have been Francie Nolan’s 110th birthday. Oh, Francie, what would you think today of your beloved Williamsburg, where the old Sicilian bakery is now a comic-book shop? I [...]

Dear Bookies: Okay, first, an open letter to my mother: I’m a grown woman now, and I’m ready to hear the truth. Did you tear Book Two out of my childhood copy of A [...]

Hi, Bookies! I hope Book One flew by for you the way it did for me. It’s easy to see why A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was such a phenomenal best-seller when it was [...]

Hi, everybody! I’m Amy Maclin, a deputy editor here at Real Simple, and I’ll be leading the book club next month. (I’ve never been in a book club, real or virtual, so I’m pretty [...]