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Revisiting ‘Desperate Characters’

This story is part of our “Brooklyn Classics” series about famous and underappreciated books set in the borough. Paula Fox wrote Desperate Characters over 50 years ago, but the book remains as impactful now as it was then. Part... Read More

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