A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

A 1950s and 1960s BROOKLYN CHILDHOOD

Martin Lemelman, Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Childhood (New York: Bloomsbury, 2010) (From the bookjacket: "Martin Lemelman's elegiac and bittersweet graphic memoir Two Cents Plain collects the memories and artifacts of the author's childhood in Brooklyn. The son of Holocaust survivors, Lemelman grew up in the back of his family's candy store in Brownville during the 1950s and '60s, as the neighborhood, and much of the city, moved into a period of decline.").