Literary Brooklyn
Subtitle: the story of an American place
By: Evan Hughes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780805089868
Subjects: Homes and haunts; In literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; American Authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The grandfather of literary Brooklyn : Walt Whitman; title: The street was everything : Henry Miller; title: Out of the fray : Hart Crane and Marianne Moore; title: A long way from New York : Thomas Wolfe; title: The longest journey : Daniel Fuchs, Bernard Malamud, Alfred Kazin; title: The great migration : Richard Wright; title: The birth of Brooklyn cool : "February house" and Truman Capote; title: The shadow of the war : William Styron and Sophie's choice; title: Underground rumbles : Norman Mailer; title: The postwar chill : Arthur Miller, Pete Hamill, Hubert Selby, Jr; title: Into the thickets of urban crisis : Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis, Paula Fox; title: A hint of things to come : Paul Auster, a renaissance in Fort Greene; title: A literary capital : the Brooklyn of today.