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February 2, 2008

Classic Brooklyn Writer Recipe

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brad Lockwood tells you the steps you need to take to become both a Brooklynite and a writer:

Once famous, find a cause: Walt Whitman saved Fort Greene Park from developers.

-Jonathan Lethem and others are trying to do the same for the neighborhoods surrounding Atlantic Yards.

Find another cause, however provocative. Joseph McCarthy had a thing for “Red-loving” Brooklyn writers, including Arthur Miller, Richard Wright, John Dos Passos and W.E.B. du Bois.

-Bruce Ratner can relate. But where’s the Coney Island Concerned Writers Group or Keep Gowanus Canal Stinking Scribe Committee?

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Posted by amy at February 2, 2008 1:44 PM