The Street Singer
by Stephen Witt
"The gonzo story of Brooklyn's Barclays Arena and an NBA team coming to Brooklyn by the journalist who played a pivotal role in making it happen.
The Street Singer follows flat-broke subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles
into contact with high-powered developer Thaddeus Hoover - a thinly-veiled take on
developer Bruce Ratner. Spirit ends up playing project supporters and opponents
against each other in order to get a song he's written to rapper BScott -
a take on Brooklyn Nets minority owner Jay-Z.
This is a novel about sex, money and power in a changing Brooklyn, a musical and often humorous take on present day NYC, complete with Russian oligarchs, blogger journalists, gentrification, poverty, celebrity adulation and basketball.
An America discovering a new paradigm of global captitalism, with a reinvented Brooklyn at its core."
FictionUrban & Street LitCity LifePerforming ArtsMusic
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERNever Sink Books
LENGTH252
LANGUAGEEN
The Street Singer
by Stephen Witt
"The gonzo story of Brooklyn's Barclays Arena and an NBA team coming to Brooklyn by the journalist who played a pivotal role in making it happen.
The Street Singer follows flat-broke subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles
into contact with high-powered developer Thaddeus Hoover - a thinly-veiled take on
developer Bruce Ratner. Spirit ends up playing project supporters and opponents
against each other in order to get a song he's written to rapper BScott -
a take on Brooklyn Nets minority owner Jay-Z.
This is a novel about sex, money and power in a changing Brooklyn, a musical and often humorous take on present day NYC, complete with Russian oligarchs, blogger journalists, gentrification, poverty, celebrity adulation and basketball.
An America discovering a new paradigm of global captitalism, with a reinvented Brooklyn at its core."
FictionUrban & Street LitCity LifePerforming ArtsMusic
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERNever Sink Books
LENGTH252
LANGUAGEEN
