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...call Rubin once I arrive, and we go to his room. Rubin and I are from the part of Brooklyn that isn’t hipster yet, but it’s feeling the urges, and Rubin has on tight jeans and a white v-neck. His room is below ground in one of the sophomore dorms (you could say the basement) but it’s fantastic, a full lounge with couch and an enormous sound system, single bedrooms sprouting off to the side. Rubin’s own room is filled with music equipment; he?...
...teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed to look up friends in Brooklyn and stumbled upon Mapplethorpe, sound asleep. "He was pale and slim with masses of dark curls, lying bare chested with strands of beads around his neck. I stood there. He opened his eyes and smiled." Instant bliss--she'd given up one baby and found another...
Almost at once they moved in together in a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they worked on their art in penniless contentment. "We hadn't much money but we were happy," she writes. (Reader, beware--Smith has a weakness for mannered prose.) But poverty is easier to bear when you see everything through the lens of art, when a blue rayon dress is your "East of Eden outfit" and you go to your job in a bookstore dressed all in black like Anna Karina in a Godard movie...
...really multicultural. My mom is from Haiti. My dad's from Puerto Rico. I was born in Brooklyn. I read Proust. Your heritage is your heritage, but your soul is truly...
...nearly robbed her of both parents, you know Shapiro has a heightened sense of drama. She is wiser now but still can't stop obsessing over what could have been, whether it be a medical crisis her son survived as an infant or a terrorist attack. (She put her Brooklyn brownstone on the market a few days after Sept...