FStop Brooklyn, a new Prospect Lefferts Gardens based photography group, presents its first show at our local wine store, 65 Fen (between Flatbush and Bedford Aves.). The show is sponsored by PLGArts, and features the work of local PLG photogaphers: Grahame Conibear, Matthew Donohue, Sheryl Foster, Marcia Lloyd, Bob Marvin, David Medieros, and Paul Morin. The show will run through January 10, 2012 at 65 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn, NY 11225.
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The February issue of the Lefferts Manor Echo newsletter is available now for downloading. It is full of great articles on our neighbors and area businesses that make PLG and Lefferts Manor a great place to live. Congradulations to editor Milford Prewitt on another great issue. You can pickup a paper copy at K-Dog & Dunebuggy.
PLG resident, Emma Straub‘s debut short story collection, “Other People We Married” will be published in February by Five Chapters Books. It is a collection of stories Emma has written over the past few years, and it also includes her novella “Fly-Over State.” The book has received some great early reviews.
“Other People We Married is a revelation. In these stories of grief, love, loss, and transplantation, Emma Straub demonstrates her brilliance, her humor, her sharp observational powers, as well as her lyrical gifts and affection for the world, She is a terrific new talent.” –Lorrie Moore
“Emma Straub has such a graceful, brittle, subversive voice that it takes a moment after you surface from her stories, drugged with pleasure and ringing with sharp insight, to realize how deeply she loves and understands humanity. Other People We Married is a terrific collection of stories, and Emma Straub is a joyous marvel of a writer.” –Lauren Groff
There will be a launch party for the book this Thursday, January 27th at 7PM at Brooklyn’s own BookCourt, where Emma also works. BookCourt is at 163 Court Street (between Pacific & Dean), 718-875-3677. There will be also be a reading at McNally Jackson in Soho on February 16th at 7PM.
Noted photographer and Lefferrs Manor resident Robert Marvin has a new exhibit of his photography at K-Dog & Dunebuggy.
The show is entitled Texture, Tone & Detail: Landscape Photographs. This exhibit features Bob’s beautifully classic black & white work. The photos are being shown as Silver Gelatin Fine Prints.
The show runs through February 15, 2011. The K-Dog & Dunebuggy Cafe is located at 43 Lincoln Road (between Flatbush and Ocean Avenues) The cafe is just east of the Prospect Park Q & B Station’s Lincoln Road Entrance.
There will be an Opening Reception on Thursday, January 27th between 6:30 and 9:00 PM.
The New York Times visits PLG again today, with an article about the Rutland Road Readers on their City Room Blog. In the post, several of the group’s sixteen members, all of whom live on Rutland 2, discuss how they joined the group, how it works, and the sense of community they have found with it.
Emma Straub says,
I grew up on the Upper West Side and didn’t know more than a handful of people. After a month on the block, I know everybody.
Pam Glaser tells how she was asked to join before she had even moved in during a going-away party for the departing owners.
When I had just gotten into the party I was already being told: ‘We’re reading “Anna Karenina“; you better get started. It’s a long book.‘
The idea for the book club came up during the annual Rutland 2 block party in 2005, while sharing their block-long potluck supper. The group had their first meeting (On Beauty by Zadie Smith) a couple of months later, and has been meeting almost monthly ever since.
Photo by Martin Friedman.