Writers in the slippery Slope

Are you kidding? This is from the NYT 10 years ago ...

Colin Harrison, author and editor, lives with his wife, Kathryn Harrison, novelist, in a brownstone a block from Thomas Boyle, writer of thrillers, who lives in a brownstone a block from Luc Sante, writer, and his wife, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, the same.

Mary Morris, novelist and travel writer, lives with her husband, Larry O'Connor, editor and writer, in a brownstone across the street from Penny Kaganoff, senior editor, not far from Paul Auster, novelist, and his wife, Siri Hustvedt, ditto.

Ms. Kaganoff found her dry cleaner in Park Slope through Mr. Harrison's last book. Jennie Fields's block in Park Slope is the hero of her new novel. Gail Hochman, literary agent, says one in every 20 book proposals she is sent these days hails from the same place: Her neighborhood, Park Slope. "I think I'm the only person in Park Slope who hasn't published a novel with a major publishing house," mused David Ravel, who, as manager of the Community Bookstore on Seventh Avenue in the heart of "the Slope," is in a position to know.

AND, here's a list of current authors who live here ...

Paul Auster
Bruce Brooks
Jonathan Safran Foer
George Hagen
Pete Hamill
Joshua Keating
Jim Knipfel
Nicole Kraus
Jonathan Lethem
David Rees (cartoonist)
Elizabeth Royte
Jon Scieszka
Katy Sparks
Mo Willems
Libba Bray
Lynn Harris

Coffee shop writing is American as writing is coffee shops ...

http://thinkingwriter.com/?p=68

Livetotravel wrote: Jonathan Lethem

I think Lethem is a resident of Cobble Hill or Borum Hill

i thought you had to move to PS once you got a book deal? I know of many freelance magazine writers who make the neighborhood their home as wwell, and most of the "big names" have been checked off the list already. i will add my personaly favorite PS resident/author&media critic, Douglas Rushkoff, who i saw read at Community Books recently. Wi fi coffee shops are a boon to the profession![/i]

stacey - a little "6 degrees of separation" for fun ...

Seth Kushner's tile for his recent photgraphic work is "Brooklynites"

"Brooklynites" by Brooklyn group Soul Coughing is a song on the sound track of "Blue in the Face"

"Blue In The Face" was written and co-directed ny Park Slope resident Paul Auster

Companion film "Smoke" was shot at the same time and also written by Auster.

In an interview about Smoke and Blue in the Face, Auster described Park Slope as "one of the most democratic and tolerant places on earth."

And now back to the thread on race and racism

L & D

RE Brooklyn's Writers Space - "writers must submit an application, resume, and three professional references which may include agents, publishers, editors, teachers, and associates who can speak to the applicants seriousness."

"Writers need not be published but must show serious intent."

I had professors who used to spew such shit!

Sheesh - and pay a fee too! What a deal. Is there a blood test? Does membership bestow writerhood?

Not all the people you see are writers.

A friend of mine is a web designer and he hangs out in coffee shops during the day working also-he says he prefers it to sitting in his hosue alone.

dailyheights wrote: In addition to that list, there are in fact thousands of work-a-day writers, editors, copyeditors, fact-checkers inhabiting the slope and the heights.

And book indexers. Well, me, anyway.

Does the library have any kind of brooklyn authors forum? It'd be cool to have an event where neighborhood authors are there to meet each other & the public.