false 1764907 1 <b>A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers.</b> <br/><br/> 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, memoirists, poets, and journalists. It has become what Greenwich Village once was for an earlier generation: a wellspring of inspiration and artistic expression. <br/><br/> <i>Brooklyn Was Mine</i> gives some of today's best writers an opportunity to pay tribute to the borough they love in 20 original essays that draw on past and present to create a mosaic that brilliantly captures the quality and diversity of a unique, literary landscape. <br/><br/> <b>Contributors include: Emily Barton, Susan Choi, Rachel Cline, Philip Dray, Jennifer Egan, Colin Harrison, Joanna Hershon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, Elizabeth Gaffney, Lara Vapnyar, Lawrence Osborne, Katie Roiphe, John Burnham Schwartz, Vijay Seshadri, Darcey Steinke, Darin Strauss, Alexandra Styron, Robert Sullivan, Michael Thomas</b> 1762952 2 1 2008 Brooklyn Was Mine total:113|5:16|4:31|3:47|2:14|1:5| 113 378 188 34 0 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 12:20:09 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 12:23:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Feb 07 21:58:14 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 21:58:14 -0800 2008
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