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Originally written in 1939 by the author for a special issue of Fortune but rejected by the magazine, an evocative study of the borough of Brooklyn paints a literary portrait of its diverse neighborhoods and the people who live there.
Not so much travel notes as a windy and winding prose-poem. I didn‘t understand a great deal of it but it was occasionally interesting and mercifully brief. 3/5