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Brooklyn Was Mine

Brooklyn Was Mine( )
Author: Steiker, Valerie
Knutsen, Chris
ISBN:978-1-59448-282-3
Publication Date:Jan 2008
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Riverhead Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.00
Book Description:

A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers. Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though its literary history runs deep-Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer are just a few of its storied inhabitants-in recent years the borough has seen a growing concentration of bestselling novelists,...
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Steiker, Valerie (Author)
Valerie Steiker grew up in New York City & attended Harvard College. She has lived in Paris - where she worked on the curatorial staff of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - & has studied acting at Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Before becoming a reviews editor at ArtForum, she was on the editorial staff of the New Yorker, where she wrote book reviews & covered the local arts scene in the "Goings on about Town" section. Her writing has also appeared in ArtNews, Metropolis, The Forward, The New York Times Book Review & Departures. She currently lives in New York.

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