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June 15, 2010
Modern Day Page Surfing
The Wall Street Journal
by Steven Kurutz
Jennie Egan, author and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn advisory board member, has just published a new novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Ms. Egan spent her youth attending punk rock shows at San Francisco's legendary Mabuhay Gardens. She moved to New York in 1987, and has published a story collection and four novels, including the National Book Award finalist "Look at Me." In recent years, Ms. Egan has chronicled old Brooklyn (she interviewed women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II for an oral history project) and defended the current version (she publicly opposed the Atlantic Yards project and its centerpiece basketball arena).
...WSJ: Did the opposition to the Atlantic Yards project affect the final plans?
Ms. Egan: What was accomplished was a gigantic delay. I guess they're going to build this monstrous stadium, which no longer even has an interesting design or architecture. It's going to be a box.
Posted by eric at June 15, 2010 9:46 AM