Stacy Horn

I don’t update this blog very frequently, but people sometimes email me to ask me what I’m up to. I’m still writing books. The paperback for my most recent book, The Killing Fields of East New York, came out this year, and I’m working on the proposal for my next book. If I get to write it, it will still be a criminal justice book, but like nothing I’ve ever done before and in many ways the book I’ve had in the back of my mind for decades. I’m so exhilarated about it. And terrified.

I also work a few days a month at the ASPCA Animal Hospital where I have to constantly stop myself from adopting a cat or dog. Seriously, every day I work there I have to have a hard talk with myself. I mean look at these things! (Pictured below.) You try not taking one of these babies home. But I already have three cats, and one is home on palliative care for cancer. From now on, no more than two pets at a time, and when I adopt it will be an older animal.

Echo, the social media site I started in 1989 and opened to the public in 1990 is still up and running! 37 years!! It’s older than our new and wonderful mayor, Zohran Mamdani (who started a food pantry to help people feed their animals).

Finally, I still sing with the Choral Society of Grace Church and our Christmas concert is coming up! I think that’s my life these days, mostly.

September 25, 7:00PM
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Shortlist Readings
My book, The Killing Fields of East New York, is nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and this is an event where the six nominees will be reading from their books. Details here.

October 8, 2026, 6:00PM
Village Story Salon
New York Public Library, Hudson Park Branch, 66 Leroy Street
Each month there is a theme and the theme for October is: Blood. Leroy Street is one of my favorite blocks in the West Village, and I encourage you to take a walk along the block before or after the reading. Details about the reading and other readers to come at this link.

October 9, 2026, 7:00PM
Kew and Willow Books Conversation
Marie Carter, author of Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers, and I will be talking about our books. Details here.
81-63 Lefferts Blvd, Kew Gardens

My book made the non-fiction shortlist for the Brooklyn Library Book Prize!! Woohoo! This is very exciting for me. I did my best to do right by Brooklyn, and it is an honor to learn that Brooklyn thinks I did okay. There are three events associated with the Prize, on 9/15, 9/25 and 9/27, details here.

I’m giving a talk tonight, June 8, 2026, at 6:30PM, sponsored by The Roosevelt Island Historical Society at the Roosevelt Island Public Library, 504 Main Street. Details here.

This is a picture I took of the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. Come early and you can explore this before my talk!

I took a picture from my roof yesterday and thought, “There’s a lot more buildings around the Empire State Building, isn’t there?” This is a view from my roof in 2012. The picture I took yesterday is right below it. I wish I could make them same size but I forget how. If you scroll down I included a fuller view of what I see when looking uptown.