The following are two events featuring Jonathan Baumbach (www.jonathanbaumbach.com), author of YOU or The Invention of Memory, praised by The Los Angeles Times as "beguiling… like any gesture of love, deserves your regard."
Jonathan Baumbach is the uber- Park Slope novelist/dad of Noah Baumbach, uber-Park Slope director of the uber-Park Slope film, The Squid and the Whale. A professor at Brooklyn College, the character of the dad/professor/writer in TSATW was openly based on Jonathan. None of the above still live in Park Slope but they're still Park Slope tropes.
- KGB Sunday Night Fiction on February 15 at KGB Bar in the East Village. 7PM, FREE.
- Brooklyn College on Wednesday, February 18, in the Barker Room (2315 Boylan Hall). 6PM, FREE.
The latest buzz:
- The Morning News (Digest): http://www.themorningnews.org/digest/reading/you.php
- Flavorwire (Required Reading): http://flavorwire.com/7982/fw-required-reading-jonathan-baumbachs-you-or-the-invention-of-memory
- Maud Newton(Guest Essay): http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=9125