Literary Brooklyn

Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. ... (more)

Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. With a dynamic mix of literary biography and urban history, literary critic and journalist Evan Hughes takes us on a tour of Brooklyn past and present and shows us 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 home on Willow Street, and Paula Fox's contested Boerum Hill is the story or more than a century of life in America's cities. Book jacket. (less)