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February 23, 2008
Borough of Writers: Q&A: Paul La Farge
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brad Lockwood
Born in Manhattan, author and hyper-creative journalist/historian/urbanist Paul La Farge is now based in Boerum Hill after a stint on the West Coast. A Guggenheim Grant and Bard Fiction Prize winner, La Farge’s works include the novels The Artist of the Missing and Haussmann; or, the Distinction, and most recently, The Facts of Winter.
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Where are you now?
Boerum Hill, right around the corner from Jonathan Lethem, I think.What’s your view on the Atlantic Yards development?
I should know more than I do. But the things I do know make me pretty unenthusiastic about it. What they did to the original Times Square was bad enough and I don’t see the need for another one of those. It’s just overburdening the transportation infrastructure and breaking up the flow of the streets and moving all these people out of the neighborhood that have been living there happily. It just doesn’t seem so great.
Posted by amy at February 23, 2008 11:57 AM