Sitting Down with Prospect Park West Penner
The Times gets up close and personal with Prospect Park West author and Park Slope resident Amy Sohn today, talking playground politics and parenting roles. The book has garnered its fair share of attention, not only because it was snapped up by Sarah Jessica Parker who plans to turn it into the Brooklyn version of…
The Times gets up close and personal with Prospect Park West author and Park Slope resident Amy Sohn today, talking playground politics and parenting roles. The book has garnered its fair share of attention, not only because it was snapped up by Sarah Jessica Parker who plans to turn it into the Brooklyn version of Sex in the City, but because it plays with and on so many of the stereotypes that abound about Park Slope. From The Times…
“The attractive female characters deem themselves too cool for the neighborhood (one thinks of it as Park Slob), while those who embrace the area are often characterized as smothering and semi-pathetic, reading self-help books like Great Sex For Moms: Ten Steps to Nurturing Passion While Raising Kids. Park Slope’s liberal values are also lampooned; a controversy erupts at the local food co-op over racial profiling.
Other true-to-life tidbits—like the ad for swingers posted on the Park Slope Parents message board—also make it into the book, which is sure to make it a guilty pleasure for anyone who loves, or loves to hate, the Slope. Anyone actually read the thing? Sounds like guilty-pleasure, end-of-summer reading to us.
A Park Slope Novel Seems a Little Too Real [NY Times]
Photo by Robert Catalano
i wasn’t breastfed cuz it’s not cool to give newborns alcohol and drugs lol
*rob*
fsrq: cute. perhaps they can generally read as well as men, but can they specifically read as well?
I was never breast fed… My mother told me she just wanted to be friends.
For Rob…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-YGLnoELQ
I’m reading it right now. It’s fun for me to see so many places from the ‘nabe, but it’s not the Park Slope that I inhabit at all. The main characters all are toxic, loathsome, and stereotypical. Not a single redeeming trait among them. That doesn’t enrage me like it will some Slopers, but it does get a bit boring for me. The book is occasionally funny, but the writing is poor and choppy and – since they are so loathsome – I just don’t care about any of the characters.
According to Property shark, less than 1/4 of all Park Slope households have children living at home…. a small minority. I admit I do find it annoying when the myth that “everyone” in this neighborhood is a yuppie parent is asserted over and over and over….
well im pro-formula fsgr.
*rob*
i disagree – that seems kinda sexist – broads can generally read as well as men.
Your sitting in a restaurant where (generally) you and/or others are eating pieces of dead farm animals, often along with milk products that come from a dirty cow teet, and if there is seafood, people are eating whole scavangers, shit and all….and you find a young (or youngish) women breastfeeding nasty??
Its about you……
BTW – I love all the ‘nasty food’ described above and more.
they excerpted the book on gawker. i don’t mind guilty pleasures, but i just can’t read ones that are so poorly written that i’m cringing every other sentence. maybe it was dumbed-down for broad appeal, but it really is sad.
I’m an ex-Sloper always in search of a fun beach book and a good laugh, so will certainly give it a read. Who wants a steady diet of Dostoevsky?