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Literary Brooklyn

2011-08-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-08-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Literary Brooklyn by : Evan Hughes

Download or read book Literary Brooklyn written by Evan Hughes. This book was released on 2011-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The New Brooklyn

2017-01-22 Political Science
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Release : 2017-01-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The New Brooklyn by : Kay S. Hymowitz

Download or read book The New Brooklyn written by Kay S. Hymowitz. This book was released on 2017-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough “1 percenters” to draw the Occupy Wall Street protests across the Brooklyn Bridge. “Tres Brooklyn,” has become a compliment among gourmands in Parisian restaurants. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the dramatic transformation of the once crumbling borough. Devoting separate chapters to Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hymowitz identifies the government policies and young, educated white and black middle class enclaves responsible for creating thousands of new businesses, safe and lively streets, and one of the most desirable urban environments in the world. Exploring Brownsville, the growing Chinatown of Sunset Park, and Caribbean Canarsie, Hymowitz also wrestles with the question of whether the borough’s new wealth can lift up long disadvantaged minorities, and the current generation of immigrants, many of whom will need more skills than their predecessors to thrive in a postindustrial economy. The New Brooklyn’s portraits of dramatic urban transformation, and its sometimes controversial effects, offers prescriptions relevant to “phoenix” cities coming back to life across the United States and beyond its borders.

The Last Bohemia

2012-08-07 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-08-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Last Bohemia by : Robert Anasi

Download or read book The Last Bohemia written by Robert Anasi. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former resident describes the transformation of Williamsburg, Brooklyn which went from a gritty industrial district, to an artist's colony, to housing members of the dot-com boom, to an area now known for hipster culture and real-estate development.

Jews of Brooklyn

2002 History
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Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 034/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jews of Brooklyn by : Ilana Abramovitch

Download or read book Jews of Brooklyn written by Ilana Abramovitch. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.

A Meaningful Life

2010-07-21 Fiction
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Release : 2010-07-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 945/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Meaningful Life by : L.J. Davis

Download or read book A Meaningful Life written by L.J. Davis. This book was released on 2010-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he finds a job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his marriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful crumbling mansion in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn, and against all advice, not to mention his wife’s will, sinks his every penny into buying it. He quits his job, moves in, and spends day and night on demolition and construction. At last he has a mission: he will dig up the lost history of his house; he will restore it to its past grandeur. He will make good on everything that’s gone wrong with his life, and he will even murder to do it.

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