Book Notes
Head out to Book Court tonight at 7 for a reading and signing of "Brooklyn: A Journey Through the City of Dreams" by Francis Morrone and Judith Stonehill.

The good folks over at California Authors have alerted me to MyCaliforniaProject.org, the online home for the new book "My California: Journeys by Great Writers." The anthology was produced to benefit the California Arts Council. And they have special pitch for those of us who grew up with an intimate knowledge of tule fog, Valley Fever and the 99: "And the Great Central Valley is well represented by Mark Arax, Gerald Haslam, Mary Mackey and Dan Weintraub!"

In case you missed "The World" interview with Stacy Sullivan about her book "Be Not Afraid," you can catch it here. (Thanks for the link, Joel.) Stacy was interviewed with Florin Krasniqi, the Brooklyn roofer who basically bankrolled the KLA and helped lure the United States into the war in Kosovo. She talks about how easy - and legal - it was for him to buy everything here from Radio Shack walkie-talkies and guns big enough to take down a helicopters and ship it all over to the KLA via Albania.

Krasniqi - who still runs his roofing business here in Brooklyn, says something that might be useful to all those folks who dickered over the semantics of terrorist vs. freedom fighter: "I think this is something most of the world does not understand, the line between a freedom fighter and a thug is so thin that it's sometimes almost impossible not to cross."
- posted by Amy @ 6/03/2004 10:48:00 AM