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Literary Brooklyn : the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life
Title:
Literary Brooklyn : the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life
Author:
Hughes, Evan, 1975-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt & Co., [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
337 pages; 21 cm
General Note:
"A Holt Paperback."
Language:
English
Contents:
The grandfather of literary Brooklyn : Walt Whitman -- The street was everything : Henry Miller -- Out of the fray : Hart Crane and Marianne Moore -- A long way from New York : Thomas Wolfe -- The longest journey : Daniel Fuchs, Bernard Malamud, Alfred Kazin -- The great migration : Richard Wright -- The birth of Brooklyn cool : "February house" and Truman Capote -- The shadow of the war : William Styron and Sophie's choice -- Underground rumbles : Norman Mailer -- The postwar chill : Arthur Miller, Pete Hamill, Hubert Selby, Jr -- Into the thickets of urban crisis : Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis, Paula Fox -- A hint of things to come : Paul Auster, a renaissance in Fort Greene -- A literary capital : the Brooklyn of today.
ISBN:
9780805089868
Format :
Book