Emma Straub’s Guide to Her ‘Tiny Village’ of Brooklyn
“I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a solid 40-minute train ride from Brooklyn,” says born-and-bred New Yorker Emma Straub. “But starting in ninth grade, in 1994, that’s just what I did—took the subway back and forth to Brooklyn Heights.” The author’s sixth novel, American Fantasy (Riverhead), does not take place there—nor on land in...










