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Literary Brooklyn The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life

Paperback • 2011 • English

Literary Brooklyn The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life

By Evan Hughes

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About the book

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 flour...Show more

Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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ISBN

9780805089868

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Literary Brooklyn The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life

Format

Paperback

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