Now that Brooklyn has been officially sanctioned as “hip” and “literary”—and you’ll excuse me for a second here while I roll on the floor in a spasm of ironic hilarity—it is high time for the bridge-and-tunnel literati to turn its gaze Verrazano Bridge–ward and begin discovering one of that borough’s most intriguing and authentic homegrown talents. Sorrentino’s Bay Ridge deserves to be appreciated alongside Malamud’s Crown Heights, Arthur Miller’s Coney Island, Henry Miller’s and Betty Smith’s Williamsburg, Hamill’s and Auster’s Park Slope, and Lethem’s Boerum Hill. Time to get on that Fourth Avenue local.
http://www.bookforum.com/archive/feb_06/howard.html
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Now that Brooklyn has been officially sanctioned as “hip” and “literary”—and you’ll excuse me for a second here while I roll on the floor in a spasm of ironic hilarity—it is high time for the bridge-and-tunnel literati to turn its gaze Verrazano Bridge–ward and begin discovering one of that borough’s most intriguing and authentic homegrown talents. Sorrentino’s Bay Ridge deserves to be appreciated alongside Malamud’s Crown Heights, Arthur Miller’s Coney Island, Henry Miller’s and Betty Smith’s Williamsburg, Hamill’s and Auster’s Park Slope, and Lethem’s Boerum Hill. Time to get on that Fourth Avenue local.
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