“all the writers are in brooklyn these days”
thought you might like to see this piece by colson whitehead in this sunday’s nyt book review section. here, he discusses what it means to be a writer living in brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Whitehead-t.html
Cityscapes in Literature & Film 
March 3, 2008 at 8:01 pm
My mom emailed this to me.
March 4, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I don’t care what anyone says, Colson Whitehead is a good writer…
Is that part about “a tart in a toga” perchance a reference to an obscure and rather misleading movie called…err… (someone’s name, can’t remember it)’s Cool Ideas. Its a crap movie about a kid who writes cool ideas into a book, and a nymphomaniac girl steals it during a toga party. and all this stuff.
I call it misleading because it was very pseudo intellectual. Cool ideas are… well cool, but people hyping them… makes them… well, less cool..?
I digress, it was an unimportant reference.
March 5, 2008 at 2:15 am
dude Ben – my mom sent this to me too!
March 5, 2008 at 1:04 pm
i emailed this to my mom.
March 5, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Holy shit– We have the same mom!
March 5, 2008 at 2:06 pm
haha yeah that’s really fucking weird!
March 7, 2008 at 10:10 am
I read the book Subway Chronicles : Scenes From Life in New York and I looked at all of the bios and was surprised to learn that all of the writers’ bios went like “so and so lives in Brooklyn”. (and yes, our dear Mr Whitehead is in there)
also lol @ your moms, they so hip
March 12, 2008 at 12:14 pm
i don’t have a mom so I didn’t get this email.
March 13, 2008 at 12:37 am
Aw vigilante 😦