Here’s a fun Park Slope event. There’s going to be a 10th Anniversary Reading o f the Union Writer’s Group at the Old Stone House tomorrow, June 11 at 8PM. (That’s between Fifth Avenue and Fourth Avenue at Third Street in J.J. Byrne Park.) Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn’s Louise Crawford writes about the event, in which she is involved:
Playwright Rosemary Moore is bringing a bunch of actors to read two scenes of a new play. Barbara Ensor is reading an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Thumbelina. Marian Fontana is reading from her hilarious new memoir about dating.
–I’m reading from a story called, “Halloween Blonde.”
–Mary Crowley is reading a set of beautiful poems.
–Wendy Ponte is reading a section from her novel about a woman in search of her Portugese heritage.
–Rosemary Moore is presenting two scenes from a new play.
–Barbara Ensor is reading from her forthcoming “young adult book, Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride.”
–Kevin McPartland is reading from Brownstone Dreams, a novel about gangs in Park Slope in the early 1960’s.
–Marian Fontana is reading from her new memoir about dating.
Check it out.
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1 Henry // Jun 10, 2007 at 6:25 am
Thanks so much for putting this up. Kevin McPartland’s novel, Brownstone Dreams, is about gang life in Park Slope in the early 1960’s. It’s like West Side Story meets Scorcece. This is pre-gentrfied Park Slope with a vengence and McPartland lived it first hand.
A must hear, must read for everyone –especially for those interested in Brooklyn in the early 1960’s when it was a vastly different place.