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Chargement... Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Lifepar Evan Hughes
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Brooklyn has been a Mecca for writers of all backgrounds for decades. This non-fiction book looks deeply at the writers who have flourished in the great neighborhoods in Brooklyn. At times the pace feels slow, but the information provided is interesting. I think it would be beneficial to read this at the same time as a few other Brooklyn based books, like The Great Bridge and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I also think it would be a great book to pick up before visiting the bourough. It’s such a diverse area and it’s full of bookstores. Reading this before you go would give you an even deeper appreciation for the literary city. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The writers of Brooklyn are an interesting lot as presented in this history, starting with Walt Whitman and through present day. Having lived in Brooklyn (Cobble Hill with some contacts in Prospect Park), and with a daughter presently in Red Hook, it was fascinating to track the writers to places I know. However, this is not a general history of Brooklyn, only of the specific neighborhoods where the chosen writers lived. Some of the choices are solid (Whitman, definitely) and some are almost whimiscal (a summer spent in Brooklyn is enough to be commented about). The author also occasionally interjects himself or his opinions into the narrative and I found that jarring. Overall, this is a solid study of the men and a few women who have lived and worked in Brooklyn. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This was an interesting book, and overall, I enjoyed it. I've always found Brooklyn a fascinating place, even though I've only been there once or twice. So I found this history of its literary inhabitants very enjoyable. I have just one niggling criticism, having to do with the title: It really isn't "The Story of American City Life" as the subtitle says. Hughes does deal with city life, of course; but that title lays claim to a much broader study than this book really delivers. OK, as I said -- niggling. But it bothered me. Aside from that, I thought the book was a good introduction to an intriguing subject -- informative and very readable. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 Brooklynis 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Brooklyn has provided many writers with the “tame excitement” that comes with being separated from “the world’s greatest city” by a river, albeit one now easily traversed by one of the world’s most well-known bridges. To many writers Manhattan has been “better appreciated when seen from across the water.”
From “The Grandfather of Literary Brooklyn,” Walt Whitman, to Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Truman Capote, Paul Auster, and many others, Hughes tells how they lived and documented some of Brooklyn’s history. ( )