A Bar in Brooklyn — Andrei Codrescu

Fiction. Since emigrating to the U.S. from his native Romania in 1966, Andrei Codrescu has blazed a rocket-bright trail across the cultural landscape of his adopted country, gaining a national audience as a public radio commentator, television personality, and editor of the radical literary journal EXQUISITE CORPSE. A BAR IN BROOKLYN collects his shorter fiction of the 1970s. "Older exiles who, as myself, had come here without speaking a word of English, guarded their simple secrets carefully because their vampiric ambitions depended on them... I had to go it alone, something I have a horror of." Andrei Codrescu is the author of BELLIGERENCE (Coffee House Press), available from SPD.