Brooklyn author Hane Selmani has launched her official website and opened pre-orders for her debut memoir, A Country Called Brooklyn, releasing May 1, 2026.
The book reexamines the 1981 murder of her sister in Brooklyn — a case that exposed the intersection of heroin addiction, cultural honor codes, and silence within an immigrant community.
Drawing from court transcripts, interviews, and decades of investigation, Selmani reconstructs the hours leading up to the killing and examines how addiction, rumor, and patriarchal codes shaped the narrative.
Early reviews from Kirkus, Clarion, BookLife, and IndieReader have praised the memoir’s emotional depth and cultural insight.

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The OMNI Ensemble is pleased to announce the conclusion of its 43rd season at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on Saturday evening, May 2, 2026 at 8:00 pm. Music Director/Flutist David Wechsler will host an evening of woodwind quintet and piano music. Compositions are Karel Husa’s Serenade for woodwind quintet and piano, Valerie Coleman’s Afro Cuban Concerto for wind quintet, Chen Yi’s Woodwind Quintet, and David Wechsler’s Divertimento
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The OMNI Ensemble is a chamber music created to perform programs of enormous variety, with music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, including Western classical music, jazz, and electronic and improvised music, all designed to provide their audience with a musical experience not ordinarily encountered in a single music event. Since its inception in 1983 the group has featured many guest artists including multi instrumentalist/composer David Amram, performance artist John Kelley, Singer Erika Banks, Kumongo player Jin Hi Kim, Saxophonist Roy Nathanson, Mezzo Sopranos Catherine Ciesinski and Charlotte Hellekant, Harpsichordists Gerald Ranck and Rebecca Pechefsky, and keyboardist Marco Benevento. The group has commissioned works by David Lang, Lee Hyla, Allen Shearson, &amp; Michael Bushnell, and performed new pieces by Jim Lahti, Eric Klein, and David Wechsler. 



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