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Dickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members; a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks; his years as single parent to his three children; his decision as a General Motors executive trainee to violate company policy and hang out with "hourlies;" a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile among Jews.
Neugeboren is the author most recently of Whatever Happened to Frankie King and twenty-three other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. His essays have been recently published in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tablet, and Commonweal, and are here collected for the first time.
Author: Jay Neugeboren
Publisher: Eastover Press
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781958094648
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2026
Foreword 04/27/2026
About the Author
Neugeboren, Jay: - Jay Neugeboren is the author of 25 books, including five prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began,1940, Poli: A Mexican Boy in Early Texas, and The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company), three prize-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness, and Whatever Happened to Frankie King), and four collections of award-winning stories. His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, GQ, Hadassah, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and have been reprinted in more than 50 anthologies. Neugeboren lives and writes in New York City.
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Dickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members; a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks; his years as single parent to his three children; his decision as a General Motors executive trainee to violate company policy and hang out with "hourlies;" a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile among Jews.
Neugeboren is the author most recently of Whatever Happened to Frankie King and twenty-three other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. His essays have been recently published in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tablet, and Commonweal, and are here collected for the first time.
Author: Jay Neugeboren
Publisher: Eastover Press
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781958094648
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2026
Foreword 04/27/2026
About the Author
Neugeboren, Jay: - Jay Neugeboren is the author of 25 books, including five prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began,1940, Poli: A Mexican Boy in Early Texas, and The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company), three prize-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness, and Whatever Happened to Frankie King), and four collections of award-winning stories. His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, GQ, Hadassah, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and have been reprinted in more than 50 anthologies. Neugeboren lives and writes in New York City.
