Acclaimed author Evan Hughes' book, "Literary Brooklyn" has drawn praise and acclaim for its remarkable illumination of the lives of Brooklyn writers and their collective impact on the world of literature.
“Smart… [Hughes] has perceptive things to say about Brooklyn’s tangled relationship to American lit. He traces the way writers have absorbed Brooklyn’s scruffy, somewhat persecuted mindset… Literary Brooklyn is at its best in the details and quotations Mr. Hughes plucks from Brooklyn writers’ lives; his book becomes a pleasure-delivery system.”—The New York Times“
In a way, the literary history of Brooklyn is like a literary history of America itself — not because America is like Brooklyn, which it isn't, but because it is a story of a certain set of writers describing what they knew as America came into being, as the country invented a literature of its own... [Hughes] lays in the facts and brightens them with solid literary critique.”—Los Angeles Times
St.
Francis College in partnership with the Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival will
present a two-part Brooklyn literature program titled, "Literary
Brooklyn."
Acclaimed author, Evan Hughes will discuss his
recent book “Literary Brooklyn: The
Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life” and take us into
the lives of Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Richard Wright, Jonathan
Lethem, Thomas Wolfe, and other great Brooklyn-based writers.
Author Tim McLoughlin, a fifth-generation
Brooklynite and editor of the Brooklyn-Noir series will read from his work and
speak about the legacy of Brooklyn-centric literature and the underlying
Brooklyn-inspired stories and motifs found in the work of writers past and
present.
The
second part of the program will be readings of Brooklyn non-fiction stories by several
participants of the 2012 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize.
2012 Brooklyn
Non-Fiction Prize Finalists
“Home”
(An excerpt) - Kaya Arnoux
“Tour de Ralph Avenue” – Denise Di
Fulco
“The Fine Line”
– Cherry Lou Sy
"Death in
Brooklyn" – Christine Benvenuto
“The Burning of Brooklyn” - Daphne
Horton
“The Bridge” – Troy Longmire
“Date Night” - Matthue Roth
“Flavor on the 5” – Jonathon Segal
The winner of the 2012
Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize will be announced at this event.
Date: Friday, December 14th,
2012
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00 pm.
This
program is Free. Open to the general public.
Location: St. Francis College, Maroni Theater (Room 7402), 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201.
No comments:
Post a Comment