Bibliograph

Literary Brooklyn, the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life, Evan Hughes

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Literary Brooklyn, the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life, Evan Hughes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Literary Brooklyn

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

704557073

Responsibility statement

Evan Hughes

Sub title

the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life

Table Of Contents

The grandfather of literary Brooklyn : Walt Whitman -- The street was everything : Henry Miller -- Out of the fray : Hart Crane and Marianne Moore -- A long way from New York : Thomas Wolfe -- The longest journey : Daniel Fuchs, Bernard Malamud, Alfred Kazin -- The great migration : Richard Wright -- The birth of Brooklyn cool : "February house" and Truman Capote -- The shadow of the war : William Styron and Sophie's choice -- Underground rumbles : Norman Mailer -- The postwar chill : Arthur Miller, Pete Hamill, Hubert Selby, Jr -- Into the thickets of urban crisis : Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis, Paula Fox -- A hint of things to come : Paul Auster, a renaissance in Fort Greene -- A literary capital : the Brooklyn of today

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