I can confirm, based on my own reading list this spring, that there is no shortage of fiction set in Brooklyn. In fact, you could almost say that the Lethems and, more recently, the Lins have been supplanted: It’s been a dazzling couple of years for the women of Brooklyn.
Over at Salon, Lydia Kiesling uses the recent release of Emily Gould’s novel Friendship to analyze the new wave of mostly female writers basing their stories in Brooklyn.
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