Every Sunday in Roosevelt Park, a bunch of former bike messengers get together to play bike polo. The game is simple and the teams are always changing. It seems to be a great way to while away a Sunday afternoon.

Brooklyn has become known recently for it’s writing scene, having even been compared to 1920s Paris by The Huffington Post earlier this year. But maybe the literary history of the borough isn’t so new. That’s what Evan Hughes focuses on in his new book Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life, which just came out in August.

In The New York Times review of the book, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts says, “Urban history and literary history often brush up against each other to profound effect” in the book, but that “it is the inner terrain, rather than Brooklyn itself, that Hughes conquers with greatest force.”

We caught up with Hughes and talked to him about how he decided to write the book and what he discovered about Brooklyn’s best writers while working on the book.

Have you ever been curious about what it feels like to run a marathon but aren’t sure you are interested in finding out first hand? Check out “Endure,” a one-woman show opening in Prospect Park this weekend that takes you on an immersive journey through the thoughts of a marathon runner.

The BK Buzz went to an early performance of “Endure” this summer, which starts at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, winds its way through Prospect Park, and ends near the picnic house in the long meadow, and got a chance to talk to creator Melanie Jones, who has run four marathons, about her experiences running as inspiration for the show and how the immersive and experimental style of “Endure” allows the audience and the performer to challenge the traditional conventions of performance.

Iviva Olenick was walking home to Boerum Hill one night when she came up with a creative idea for telling Brooklyn love stories, which soon became The Brooklyn Love Exchange. Olenick, who teaches embroidery at the Pratt Institute and at Etsy at 3rd Ward, began documenting love stories gathered from all over the borough in embroidered pieces.

Producer Shannon Geis deals with moving out of her childhood home in Nebraska for good and the memories of her father that still haunt the property.