Chekhov's Mistress
Is There Such a Thing as Poetic Osmosis?
It has been an expletive filled month around here as we have been searching for an apartment. In New York, that is a difficult process, to put it nicely. So the deed is done and within a week or so we will be moving to Ft. Greene Brooklyn, the home of BAM, beautiful Ft. Greene Park and a lot of really cool restaurants.
Ft. Greene was the home of Marianne Moore (right down the street from us), and Walt Whitman lived in the area and championed the park that is the center of the community. Paul Auster says…
“Actually Brooklyn has a long literary history, and we shouldn’t forget it, Walt Whitman being the most important. Quite a few of the great 20th century poets, the Objectivists, lived in Brooklyn, Louis Zukovsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, and probably one of the great 20th century poems, The Bridge, written by Hart Crane, was composed in Brooklyn. In fact there are few places in America with a greater poetic tradition than Brooklyn.”
(thanks to Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn for the quote). But will it, can it, rub off on we wannabees?
If things are a bit slow around here, please forgive, we all know how time consuming a move can be. I’m still taking every opportunity to keep up with the writings of our betters on Newsgator, fit in a few pages of T. Recs and some other interesting things. So I’ll try to get in a post or two, but soon-soon there will be more life at Chekhov’s Mistress.
p.s. Any of you from Brooklyn? – love to here about eats (drinks) and bookstores. I’ve been to Park Slope Books, which is a good used bookstore and Community Bookstore, also in the slope, but that’s it and I would love to hear about more – I’m up for exploring.
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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Hi there - I’m a relative newcomer to both your blog and brooklyn, but thought i’d offer up a few words of advice. If you ever get tired of the stroller traffic in the Slope, I’d recommend making Prospect Heights, next door, your second home. Not much in the way of bookstores, but you really can’t beat the Museum, the wonderful Public Library, the botanic gardens, and, most importantly, Tom’s Restaurant (washington and sterling, the best place to eat in our fare borough). All relatively obvious suggestions, I know, but for good reason - and somehow the neighborhood continues to feel quiet, friendly, open, and beautiful.
– Pack Bringley (02/20 at 07:27 PM)
Good luck with the move! I have high hopes for Brooklyn: Jersey City has a far less storied rep (though I do plan to check out a couple recently touted novels of parochial school ed & growing up in the ‘hood) & it’s already (since my move from the midwest in August) done miracles for my writing. Imagine what Brooklyn will do for you! (No bookstores, alas, in downtown Jersey City.) Best, Anne
– Anne (02/22 at 11:05 AM)
Hi, I came across your blog while searching for a list of independent bookstores. Park Slope has a good monthly reading series, first Sunday of every month (& I’m reading there in March). It’s called the Atomic Series & it’s at Lucky 13 Saloon. Details at http://www.cherylb.com.
Nice blog, by the way!
– Avra (02/23 at 09:23 PM)
You’re just gonna have to check out Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn - otbkb.com
every day for tips on the coolest stuff to do in the borough and lots of links. I will keep you in mind when I’m writing…
Thanks for putting the Auster quote in. That’s a great one.
– (03/01 at 09:41 AM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 15, 2005
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