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The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life
Holt Paperbacks
August 2011
On Sale: August 16, 2011
352 pages ISBN: 0805089861 EAN: 9780805089868 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the
eyes of its greatest storytellers. Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village,
Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural
boom. In recent years, writers of all stripes—from Jhumpa
Lahiri, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead to Nicole Krauss
and Jonathan Safran Foer—have flocked to its patchwork of
distinctive neighborhoods. But as literary critic and
journalist Evan Hughes reveals, the rich literary life now
flourishing in Brooklyn is part of a larger, fascinating
history. With a dynamic mix of literary biography and urban
history, Hughes takes us on a tour of Brooklyn past and
present and reveals that hiding in Walt Whitman's Fort
Greene Park, Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge, the raw
Williamsburg of Henry Miller's youth, Truman Capote's famed
house on Willow Street, and the contested streets of
Jonathan Lethem's Boerum Hill is the story of more than a
century of life in America's cities. Literary Brooklyn is a prismatic investigation into a rich
literary inheritance, but most of all it's a deep look into
the beloved borough, a place as diverse and captivating as
the people who walk its streets and write its stories.
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