Franklin Park

Last night I gave a reading at Franklin Park, a new lounge in Crown Heights that hosts a monthly reading series.  The wonderful organizer, Penina Roth, met me at the door and checked in throughout the night to make sure I was ok…you see, I don't drink and I can count on one hand the number of times I've been in a bar.  So doing a reading at a bar (which the Brooklyn Paper dubbed "booze and books") made me a little anxious.  Fortunately, my good friend Stefanie was there to prop me up, and...