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Richard Grayson's New Book: I Hate All of You On This L Train

The Brooklyn-based indie publisher Canarsie House has announced the publication of a new book of selected stories by OTBKB fave Richard Grayson, I Hate All of You on This L Train. It features some of the best stories from five previously published Richard Grayson books from the '70s, '80s, '90s and 21st century. This 94-page collection of selected stories is available online for $7.00 plus shipping and handling. Or, for those who don't want to carry it on the subway, the book is available for free downloads and online reading at Scribd.

What a Line-Up

The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store (aka 826nyc) continues to amaze. All you Park Slope writers will not want to miss the following event:

February 17, 2005—Adult Seminar on Writing and Publishing the Novel
Panelists include Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity), Paula Fox (Desperate Characters), and Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude).

6:30-9:30pm
826NYC, 372 5th Avenue, Brooklyn
$50.00
To reserve your place, give them a call: (718) 499-9884

 

It'd Take a Guy a Lifetime...

Curious about the name of this new blog. Here's an excerpt from Thomas Woolfe's masterful short story called: "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" written in thick Brooklynese:

Dere's no guy livin' dat knows Brooklyn t'roo an t'roo, because it'd take a guy a lifetime just to find his way aroun' duh goddam town.

"So like I say, I'm waitin' for my train t' come when I sees dis big guy standin' deh -- dis is the foist I eveh see of him. Well, he's lookin' wild, y'know, an' I can see dat he's had plenty, but still he's holdin' it; he talks good an' is walkin' straight enough. So den, dis big guy steps up to a little guy dat's standin' deh, an' says, 'How d'yuh get t' Eighteent' Avenoo an Sixty-sevent' Street?' he says..."

and

"Jesus! What a nut he was! I wondeh what evah happened to 'm, anyway. I wondeh if someone knocked him on duh head, or if he's till wanderin' aroun' in duh subway in duh middle of duh night with his little map! Duh poor guy. Say, I've got to laugh, at dat, when I t'ink about him! Maybe he's found out by now dat he'll never live long enought to know duh whole of Brooklyn. It'd take a guy a lifetime to Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo. An even den, yuh wouldn't know it all."