Writers Unite to Lose Their Chainstores
Just when the fight over Atlantic Yards threatened to devolve into a detailed dissection of whether Brownstone Brooklyn was blighted or not, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn has decided to bring back a little star dust. It looks like the celebrity advisory board, appointed last spring just to sit around and get picked apart by the project's proponents, is going to do a little work for once: next Wednesday, Jhumpa Lahiri and Jennifer Egan are going to crash Tillie's in Fort Greene with a reading, the highlight of a weeklong warm-up for the opposition group's walkathon Oct. 21. The cafe's website says, "Come one, come all, and bring your laptops." That goes for you too, Jason Kidd!
-Matthew Schuerman
c'mon matthew. that's the sort of lazy, snark-assed potshot i thought you were above. perhaps you could rouse your fingers to do the walking, dial the phone and actually find out who's doing what.