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January 10, 2008
Inspired writing
Who woulda thunk it? Crain's Cleveland Business carried a short item on "Brooklyn Was Mine."
Forest City Ratner Co.’s controversial $4 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn has inspired a lot of things — anger primary among them for residents — but now it has inspired something else: a book.
“Brooklyn Was Mine” features 20 original essays by Brooklyn writers who “draw on past and present to create a mosaic that brilliantly captures the quality and diversity of a unique, literary landscape,” according to the book’s description on Amazon.com.
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Proceeds from the book are being donated to the anti-Atlantic Yards legal fund established by a group called Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.
Posted by lumi at January 10, 2008 8:10 PM