{"product_id":"literary-brooklyn-the-writers-of-brooklyn-and-the-story-of-american-city-life-9780805089868","title":"Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hughes, Evan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780805089868.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, here is Brooklyns story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers.\nLike 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 Whitmans Fort Greene Park, Hart Cranes Brooklyn Bridge, the raw Williamsburg of Henry Millers youth, Truman Capotes famed house on Willow Street, and the contested streets of Jonathan Lethems Boerum Hill is the story of more than a century of life in Americas cities.\nLiterary Brooklyn is a prismatic investigation into a rich literary inheritance, but most of all its a deep look into the beloved borough, a place as diverse and captivating as the people who walk its streets and write its stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949971238965,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805089861","price":59.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805089868_72939cb4-177d-4704-843b-cebc2709da43.jpg?v=1781286075","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/literary-brooklyn-the-writers-of-brooklyn-and-the-story-of-american-city-life-9780805089868","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}