AM NEW YORK // Bronx Book Festival latest in borough’s renewed push for literary prowess
The Bronx has a rich literary tradition, with classics such as E.L. Doctorow’s “Billy Bathgate” and Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin” set in a borough that’s been home to everyone from Edgar Allan Poe to Mary Higgins Clark.
But the borough itself is not traditionally known as a hot spot for local bibliophiles, in the fashion of areas in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Yet over the past few years, Bronx locals have begun writing a new chapter in that story.