Book night in DUMBO: Jonathan Lethem’s launch for ‘Lucky Alan’
Brooklyn BookBeat
Jonathan Lethem is one of Brooklyn’s brightest literary stars. So what if he doesn’t live here now?
The author of “Motherless Brooklyn” left his home turf of Boerum Hill for a professorship at Pomona College in Southern California a half-decade ago. But one of the stories in Lethem’s new book “Lucky Alan” takes readers back to his old neighborhood, now a nice place full of nannies, dog-walkers — and yuppies who mutter mean things about the main character, Stevick.
“Procedure in Plain Air” spins a chilling yarn about what happens one day when Stevick, while sitting outside a café, sees workers dig a hole in the street and put a prisoner in it.