Author at the Library: "Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life," with Evan Hughes, literary critic and journalist.
Date and Time
January 5, 2012
Event Details
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, the author 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.