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He’s Mr. Write: Sloper Auster honored by Beep

By Adam Rathe
The Brooklyn Paper
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If you live in Brooklyn long enough, you’re bound to get an award.

That’s what happened to local literary lion Paul Auster last Friday night at Borough Hall.

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The borough’s men and women of letters were gathered to hear the Borough President Markowitz announce the details of the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival, which will take place on Sunday, Sept. 16.

And one of those details was doling out Brooklyn’s equivalent of Oscar’s Jean Hersholt Award. Markowitz’s honor was universally praised by the literati (some of whom, no doubt, are plenty jealous of the author of 11 novels, a few screenplays, plenty of stories and even a few non-fiction tomes).

“Auster’s my favorite Brooklyn author,” said first-time novelist Josh Ferris (“And Then We Came to the End”).

Johnny Temple, a Fort Greene resident and chairman of the Borough President’s Literary Council, also toed the party line: “Paul Auster is a king.”

Other luminaries slated to be involved in this year’s Festival — the second such fete — include A.M. Homes, George Packer, Neal Pollack and Mo Willems.

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