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October 13, 2006
Writers Unite to Lose Their Chainstores
The NY Observer
It looks like the celebrity advisory board, appointed last spring just to sit around and get picked apart by the project's proponents, is going to do a little work for once: next Wednesday, Jhumpa Lahiri and Jennifer Egan are going to crash Tillie's in Fort Greene with a reading, the highlight of a weeklong warm-up for the opposition group's walkathon Oct. 21. The cafe's website says, "Come one, come all, and bring your laptops." That goes for you too, Jason Kidd!
NoLandGrab: While the press sits around to take pot shots at the DDDB Advisory Board, the literatti serving on the board have contributed more than Jonathan Lethem's open letter to Gehry. A big-time celebrity novelist was working the T-shirt table at the rally this summer (probably to get a free shirt, right?), another serves as a Block Captain (fancy term for lowly volunteer who fliers their own block each month). If any reporters really want to know what these guys have been up to, they could just ask.
Posted by lumi at October 13, 2006 6:42 AM