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Subject: "Brookland", and its author Emily Barton
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:38:17 EST

There is an article about "Brookland", a novel about early Brooklyn, and its
author Emily Barton, in today's (Sunday, March 12) NEWSDAY:

http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-bktalk4655134mar12,0,45071.sto
ry?coll=ny-features-print

According to Emily Barton, "That was the name for everything from the ferry
landing at old Fulton Street to the foot of Clover Hill, which is where we are
right now," the writer explains. "Brookland was never an official name, it was
just something people called this area. I used it for the title because it
was very close to the name as we know it, but not the same. It allowed me to
say, 'This is Brooklyn when it was a different place, with a different topography
and different rules.'"

I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.

Happy Purim*,

Walter Greenspan
Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

* One-day celebration of Purim begins at sunset on Monday, March 13.

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