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The association between Brooklyn and writing has become so axiomatic that when Sergio De La Pava published his debut novel A Naked Singularity in May, he quipped in his author bio: “Sergio De La Pava is a writer who does not live in Brooklyn.” Native son Jonathan Lethem, who upped and left for California last year, was more pointed, grumbling to the Los Angeles Times: “Brooklyn is repulsive with novelists; it’s cancerous with novelists.