{"id":3527,"date":"2012-08-05T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/karl-taro-greenfields-triburbia\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:32:20","slug":"karl-taro-greenfields-triburbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/05\/karl-taro-greenfields-triburbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Taro Greenfield’s TRIBURBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The NY Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Karl Taro Greenfeld’s novel ‘Triburbia’ tells how artistic Tribeca fell prey to wealthy Wall Street types<\/h1>\n

Story centers on a group of fathers who meet for coffee, and some of them seem to resemble real Tribeca denizens<\/em><\/p>\n

BY\u00a0SHERRYL CONNELLY<\/a> \/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/p>\n

\"Karl<\/p>\n

BRYAN SMITH\/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/em><\/p>\n

The new novel \u201cTriburbia\u201d maps an intersection in time in Tribeca. It\u2019s 2008, and the creative types who\u2019d claimed the nabe from actual artists watch as the hedge fund millionaires invade. In a shaky economy, the holdouts from an earlier era have only their cultural pretensions to protect them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bankers and lawyers here now don\u2019t even pretend to care about theater and literature,\u201d says author Karl Taro Greenfeld, who lives at Warren St. and West Broadway. \u201cThe people they\u2019re replacing at least fancied themselves as being part of the creative class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenfeld\u2019s story centers on a group of fathers who form a coffee klatsch that meets mornings at Socrates, the now-shuttered Greek diner on Hudson St. The cast includes a sound engineer with his own business, a sculptor supported by his wife, a one-hit playwright, a film producer seemingly always between projects, a best-selling memoirist exposed as a fraud and, oh, a gangster.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hardly an affectionate portrait of the neighbors, though it is funny. Does Greenfeld expect any blowback from, say, the actual coffee klatsch of fathers he meets with many mornings? Or chef David Bouley or memoirist James Frey, both of whom are figures in the neighborhood?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no,\u201d he says hastily.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese aren’t their stories. Though Frey does live in Tribeca.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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