Bed Stuy Is Burning Brian Platzer

In an Op-Ed last year for The New York Times the novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge posed.

Bed stuy is burning brian platzer. It is well-written well-paced well-plotted and timely with its main characters being real deeply etched and multilayered and. PAPER COVER Publishing status. In it a housing project is literally set on fire during a mass protest.

Platzer captures these characters and their stories in a convincing and ultimately compassionate way. It is the debut of a fully mature literary voice that has the mordant wit of Franzen the dazzling smarts of Roth and the compassion of Tolstoy. Aaron was once a rabbi at least until he got caught with his hand in the synagogues bank account desperately trying to settle a gambling.

The first part of Brian Platzers engaging first novel Bed-Stuy Is Burning Atria is titled Rosh Hashanah and most of the action takes place on the holiday but far from any. It is the debut of a fully mature literary voice that has the mordant wit of Franzen the dazzling smarts of Roth and the compassion of Tolstoy. 9 hrs and 2 mins.

Brian Platzer is the author of BED-STUY IS BURNING 17 and THE BODY POLITIC 20 from AtriaSimon Schuster and THE TAKING THE STRESS OUT OF HOMEWORK 20 from AveryPenguin Random House. In Bed-Stuy is Burning Brian Platzers funny socially acute intelligence combines with his empathetic heart to reveal how faith violence and real estate speculation shape contemporary life. Bed-Stuy Is Burning the debut novel by Brian Platzer is a Crash-y novel thats intermittently alert to its Crash-iness.

Simon and Schuster ISBN. His writing has appeared often in the New Yorkers Shouts and. In Bed-Stuy Is Burning Brian Platzers funny socially acute intelligence combines with his empathetic heart to reveal how faith violence and real estate speculation shape contemporary life.

Tensions reach a climax when a group of predominantly African American protestors march to a brownstone recently purchased by white gentrifiers Aaron and Amelia. Brian has an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a BA from Columbia University. Is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Bed-Stuy Is Burning and The Body Politic both AtriaSimon Schuster as well as the forthcoming parenting book Taking Taking the Stress Out of Homework AveryPenguin Random House.