News: From The New York Times: For a Brooklyn Tale, and Its Author, a Second Chance at a First Impression
For a Brooklyn Tale, and Its Author, a Second Chance at a First Impression
By Eric Konigsberg
So woefully forgotten are L. J. Davis’s novels of Brooklyn that not even he has copies on hand in his apartment. Boxes of the unsold books, along with the rest of his collection 5,000 or so volumes by other authors, were relegated to storage two years ago, when Mr. Davis sold the Boerum Hill town house that had been his home since 1965 and moved into a postwar condominium around the corner.
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Rebeca Schiller is the editor of Alvah's Books. She reviews literary fiction and non-fiction.