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The Brooklyn Reader

2011-07-20 Fiction
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Release : 2011-07-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 357/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Brooklyn Reader by : Andrea Wyatt

Download or read book The Brooklyn Reader written by Andrea Wyatt. This book was released on 2011-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no other place quite like Brooklyn. Not only has it inspired and nurtured many native writers, it has had a profound impact on those passing through. The Brooklyn Reader features a rich diversity of writings -- short stories, poetry, essays, novels, biographies, and plays -- that offer thirty writers' unique and colorful experiences of New York City's biggest borough. Ranging from warm, nostalgic memories of childhood to humorous tales of new arrivals adjusting to the American way, or just stories of life's unplanned adventures, this reading tour is a true delight. Contributors include: Anatole Broyard Cristina Garcia Henry Miller Betty Smith Derek Walcott Truman Capote Spike Lee Isaac Bashevis Singer William Styron Walt Whitman

The Brooklyn Reader

1995-11-29 Fiction
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Release : 1995-11-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 002/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Brooklyn Reader by : A. W. Sexton

Download or read book The Brooklyn Reader written by A. W. Sexton. This book was released on 1995-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brooklyn Reader

2009-07-01
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Release : 2009-07-01
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Brooklyn Reader by : Andrea Wyatt Sexton

Download or read book The Brooklyn Reader written by Andrea Wyatt Sexton. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular collection of some of the best short fiction and short stories ever written.

The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s

2014-12-09 Social Science
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Release : 2014-12-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s by : Mariah Adin

Download or read book The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s written by Mariah Adin. This book was released on 2014-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and juvenile delinquency, and the dystopia already in bloom amongst American youth well before the 1960s. Readers will be engrossed and horrified by the tale of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang whose shocking, front-page story could easily have been copy-pasted from today's online news sites. Author Mariah Adin takes readers along for a breathtaking moment-by-moment retelling of the crime spree, the subsequent interrogations, and the dramatic courtroom showdown, interspersed with expository chapters on juvenile delinquency, America's Jewish community in the post-Holocaust period, and the anti-comics movement. This book serves to merge the history of juvenile delinquency with that of the Great Comic Book Scare, highlights the assimilation of immigrants into America's white mainstream gone wrong, and complicates our understanding of America's "Golden Age."

Brooklyn Fictions

2014-11-20 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-11-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 767/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Brooklyn Fictions by : James Peacock

Download or read book Brooklyn Fictions written by James Peacock. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global. Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever with more canonical novels such as Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, this study draws on the work of a variety of theorists on community and globalization and uses Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of the complex relationship between romantic ideals of community and global economic forces. With cites often depicted as sites of conflict and fear, this is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the contemporary urban community and the ethical issues involved in conceptualizing and portraying it in literature.

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