Check out Gersh Kuntzman’s piece on the front page of  The Brooklyn Papers about Paul Auster’s new book, "The Brooklyn Follies." The book, which is reviewed by Walter Kirn in this Sunday’s New York Times’ Book Review, features many familiar Park Slope characters, including "Beautiful Perfect Mother" or BPM.

The character’s name is Nancy Mazzucchelli who lives in a brownstone in these parts. But I have my own list of BPM;s as I am sure you do.

FROM A REVIEW ON BOOKLIST: Auster meditates on the theme of sanctuary in American literature, from
Hawthorne to Poe to Thoreau, infusing the novel’s picaresque with
touches of romanticism, Southern gothic and utopian yearning. But the
book’s presiding spirit is Brooklyn’s first bard, Walt Whitman, as
Auster embraces the borough’s multitudes