The Brooklyn Ink

Brooklyn As Muse: Why So Many Writers?

In the beginning there was Walt Whitman’s “Brooklyn Ferry.” Then came Henry Miller’s Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Bridge was Hart Crane’s, the Brooklyn accent Thomas Wolfe’s.   Truman Capote and Paula Fox wrote their version of the [...]

The Spirit of Brooklyn in Writing

A quiet escape from the raucous pounding of urban life. A trove of cheap rents and spacious dwellings. A flawed and unpredictable muse. An embattled ground where American life thrives and decays. A creative retreat for literary rebels of the day.