Thursday, September 20, 2012
Brooklyn's Iconic Books, in One (or Two!) Sentences
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by Paul Legault
on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM
Paul Legault's delightful work as an "English-to-English translator" and poet of the condensed work has long been a favorite of ours. His
book of Emily Dickinson's poems, each condensed into a sentence or two, is deceptively affecting and impossible to put down. So we asked him to do the same to some of Brooklyn's great literature...
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