02756cam a22004334a 4500 115950 20230410132626.0 110225s2011 nyu b 001 0deng 16666161 2011006652 015836973 Uk 9780805089868 0805089861 (OCoLC)ocn704557073 DLC DLC YDX YDXCP BWX UKMGB ABG COO IXA CDX PUL VP@ BDX DLC pcc n-us-ny PS 144 H893l 2011 810.9 Hughes, Evan, 1975- Literary Brooklyn : the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life / Evan Hughes. New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2011. x, 337 p. ; 21 cm. "A Holt paperback." Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Presents a literary history of Brooklyn that chronicles the New York City borough's literary origins while tracing its cultural beginnings in its regional literary traditions, citing the contributions of such major writers as Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, and Truman Capote. Authors, American Homes and haunts New York (State) New York. American literature New York (State) New York History and criticism. Los autores, los estadounidenses Hogares y guaridas Nueva York (Estado) Nueva York. Literatura americana Nueva York (Estado) Nueva York Historia y crítica. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) In literature. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2011006652-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2011006652-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2011006652-s.html lcc bk dpf 84885 84885 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PS 144 H893l 2011 00000103186 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk