The Brooklyn Reader 30 Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough Author:Andrea Wyatt Sexton (Editor), Alice Leccese Powers (Editor) From Coney Island to the Heights, from the 1850s to the present, here is the essence of Brooklyn. This diverse anthology includes the work of such notables as Truman Capote, Cristina Garcia, Spike Lee, William Styron, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe. — (From) Southeast of the island: Travel notes by James Agee -- (From) Side effects by Woody Allen... more » -- Sunday dinner in Brooklyn by Anatole Broyard -- A house on the heights by Truman Capote -- (From) Unbought and unbossed by Shirley Chisholm -- The great Manta by Edwin Corle -- To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane -- A painter on a planet of blind people by Michael Disend -- Love in Brooklyn by Daniel Fuchs -- (From) Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia -- (From) The gift by Pete Hamill -- (From) Do the right thing: Production notes by Spike Lee --
(From) The assistant by Bernard Malamud. The making of a writer: From the poets in the kitchen by Paule Marshall -- Brooklyn Bridge by Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Brooklyn is my neighborhood by Carson McCullers -- (From) At weddings and wakes by Alice McDermott -- The fourteenth ward by Henry Miller -- The camperdown elm by Marianne Moore -- (From) The harbor by Ernest Poole -- (From) Under the boardwalk by Norman Rosten -- Borough of Cemeteries by Irwin Shaw -- (From) Brighton Beach memoirs by Neil Simon --
A wedding in Brownsville by Isaac Bashevis Singer. (From) A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith -- (From) Sophie's choice by William Styron -- (From) Keystone kids by John Tunis -- A letter from Brooklyn by Derek Walcott -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman -- Only the dead know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe« less