{"id":129367,"date":"2018-09-18T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=129367"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:11:40","slug":"redux-brooklyn-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/redux-brooklyn-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Brooklyn Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfnx3y2sMXUtu-ZwAQeTN1iAYh_S21I2df71FY0mU5GxosjAw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-4-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the staff of\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0was at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynbookfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D0bdb7c6db0%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEO_MpSrHBz-g3GxJVYysZhOxZe5g\">Brooklyn Book Festival<\/a>, hawking our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wares<\/a> and slinging\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=31fb85b77b&amp;e=22801f508d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D31fb85b77b%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEsTG3n_voRjVdNVYNZCT7pPQyIiw\">subscriptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who live too far away to have stopped by our booth, we bring you\u00a0David McCullough\u2019s 1999\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/894\/david-mccullough-the-art-of-biography-no-2-david-mccullough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Db95adeda0d%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFcP6_lo6genklYH9vZJJFsvNWINA\">Art of Biography interview<\/a>, where he recounts how he began writing his\u00a0book\u00a0<em>The Great Bridge<\/em>;\u00a0Jonathan Lethem\u2019s story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/947\/tugboat-syndrome-jonathan-lethem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3De891d4206b%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhkPkCx0QA_r8Kh9wIbtYki2mFDA\">Tugboat Syndrome<\/a>,\u201d whose protagonist \u201cgrew up in the library of St. Vincent\u2019s Home for Boys in downtown Brooklyn\u201d; and\u00a0Pam A. Parker\u2019s\u00a0poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2018\/brooklyn-crossing-pam-a-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dec5598592d%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGJVnATbZy74zKxkpAVAOt7_elOYQ\">Brooklyn Crossing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/894\/david-mccullough-the-art-of-biography-no-2-david-mccullough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D7e5b23203a%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHN4NAzA_rB05hlQW1Rl8gmc6HPLw\">David McCullough, The Art of Biography No. 2<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 152 (Fall 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One day I was having lunch in a German restaurant on the Lower East Side with an architect-engineer and a science writer. They started talking about what the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge\u00a0<em>didn\u2019t know<\/em>\u00a0when they started it. The more they talked, the more I realized I had found my subject. I had lived in Brooklyn Heights and walked over the bridge many times; the Roeblings came from my part of Pennsylvania and I knew something about them because they plotted the course of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Johnstown. I left the restaurant and went straight to the Forty-second Street library and climbed those marble stairs to the third floor as if I had a jet engine on my back. There were over a hundred cards on the Brooklyn Bridge, but none described a book of the kind I had already begun blocking out in my mind. I went to Peter Schwed, my editor at Simon and Schuster, and said, I\u2019ve got my next book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-2-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/947\/tugboat-syndrome-jonathan-lethem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D69ac53e4d6%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804618000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEEH8vKfbxW_7Tnsrv8OIHqjYyIuw\">Tugboat Syndrome<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jonathan Lethem<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 151 (Summer 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I grew up in the library of St. Vincent\u2019s Home for Boys in downtown Brooklyn, on a street which serves as the off-ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge. There the Home faced eight lanes of traffic, lined by Brooklyn\u2019s central sorting annex for the post office, a building that hummed and blinked all through the night, its gates groaning open to admit trucks bearing mountains of those mysterious items called letters; by the Burton Trade School for Automechanics, where hardened students attempting to set their lives dully straight spilled out twice a day for sandwich-and-beer breaks, overwhelming the cramped bodega next door; by a granite bust of Lafayette, indicating his point of entry into the Battle of Brooklyn; by a car lot surrounded by a high fence topped with wide curls of barbed wire and wind-whipped fluorescent flags, and by a red-brick Quaker meetinghouse that had presumably been there when the rest was farmland. In short, this jumble of stuff at the clotted entrance to the ancient, battered borough was officially Nowhere, a place strenuously ignored in passing through to Somewhere Else. Until rescued by Frank Minna I lived, as I said, in the library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-3-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-3-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-3-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2018\/brooklyn-crossing-pam-a-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dd359597cad%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537186804619000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9D8ZdKcxv75QtVC1275znJzIrFw\">Brooklyn Crossing<\/a><br \/>\nBy Pam A. Parker<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 125\u00a0(Winter 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The masts are mostly gone, Walt. Pleasure-sailors<br \/>\nply the harbor, piloting fiberglass forty-footers<br \/>\ndown from the North Shore, one at the wheel,<br \/>\none to haul sail and sit, staring over the water\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>A swimmer, strong and lucky, might make it,<br \/>\ncutting an angle across the current, ebb up, flood down.<br \/>\nJumpers, too, are rare, these days: a train is more reliable,<br \/>\nthat third, electrified rail, half-covered, always visible \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like what you read,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=EDTNS17&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get a year of<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u2014<em>four new issues, plus instant access to everything we\u2019ve ever published.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, the editors of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. 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