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February 26, 2008
Read Alert
Having fed your bellies, flooded your shopping bags, and filled your ears, we figured it would be a logical time to feed your mind too. A Public Space, the esteemed literary journal based in Boerum Hill and founded by former Paris Review editor Brigid Hughes, will be at the Flea every week, making available its five quarterly issues as well as books by writers it likes. Contributors include heavyweights like Jonathan Lethem, Anna Deavere Smith, William Vollman, and Rick Moody, so this is serious stuff. They'll also be giving away copies of Brooklyn is A Public Space, a collection of local scribes' literary ruminations on our fair borough.
The Housing Works crew will also be opening the shelves of its Crosby St. bookstore in Manhattan every week at the Flea (in addition to selling their coveted antiques and furniture), which means even more page-turning to be done. It's not the banks of the Seine (yet), but if we can organize the Sunday-afternoon readings at the Masonic Temple we've been scheming about (sale on reading lamps!), it'll certainly be a moving foreword.
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I welcome Housing Works to the flea. I like shopping there and this gives me another way to do that. Of course, they are a very worthwhile organization and hopefully they will also be taking donations there.
Posted by: LM at February 26, 2008 3:27 PM
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