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Literary Brooklyn : the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Evan, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New York (State) > New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > In literature.
American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
Table of 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.