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<p class="null1">For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><i>Literary Brooklyn</i> 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 t

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Author

Hughes, Evan, 1975-

Publisher

Holt Paperbacks

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805089868

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.77 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14