Thursday Links
A Brooklyn Loft Transformed on a Budget [NY Times] Building a Sukkah with Jonathan Safran Foer [Forward] Brooklyn Family Keeps Latino-Jewish Traditions Alive [CNN] Robot Monkey Fighting Comes to Brooklyn [NBC New York] 8 Million Stories: Brooklyn’s Own Delphi [NY Press] D.A.’s Office Welcomes Attorneys from City’s Biggest Firms [Brooklyn Eagle] Photo by Several Seconds,…
A Brooklyn Loft Transformed on a Budget [NY Times]
Building a Sukkah with Jonathan Safran Foer [Forward]
Brooklyn Family Keeps Latino-Jewish Traditions Alive [CNN]
Robot Monkey Fighting Comes to Brooklyn [NBC New York]
8 Million Stories: Brooklyn’s Own Delphi [NY Press]
D.A.’s Office Welcomes Attorneys from City’s Biggest Firms [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Several Seconds, Brownstoner Flickr pool
I’ve purchased at least 3 Murakami books, each time hoping I’d “get” the hype and never did. His kind of story-telling never did anything for me.
PS, if anyone starts up a book club, let me know. I’d be in.
Thank you so much CG!!!
cg ups, big fan of kazuo ishiguro, but it’s tough to recommend some of his novels(they can be brutal), especially “never let me go” which is now being made into a film. Life of Oscar Wao had some slow parts but overall a great read.
we should have a brownstoner book club 🙂
Great photo.
Auster, Murakami, Chabon–three of my absolute favorites, with Murakami holding the top spot.
Hi Mopar. check yesterday’s OT. it was discussed in great detail including a respectful counterprotest headed up by bxgrl and MM.
i’ve heard good things about the Life of Oscar Wao. I have a lot of books waiting for purchase on my amazon wish list. thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
AB’s Dry is one of the most memorable, humorous books I’ve ever read.
You guys might enjoy Junot Diaz. “Drown” is an amazing bunch of short stories, and the subsequent “Life of Oscar Wao” received a lot of praise, although I didn’t like it.
Did anyone see the story about the supposed Baptist group that’s planning to picket Brooklyn shuls on Saturday before Yom Kippur? So unbelievably creepy.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/38/32_38_gk_beth_elohim_protest.html
AB (#1) is light, but every now and then he has a turn of phrase or an observation which is genius.