Joshua D. Fischer

I was disappointed in Meet the Regulars. I grew up in Brooklyn and was looking to meet the folks that I knew; Just regular folk, not celebrities or semi-celebrities. I wanted to see my neighbors, my friends in the bars we/they haunted. I wanted to hear them talking about the lives they lived, the meaning of where they chose to drink and make community. Maybe I just wanted to read about the Brooklyn I grew up in and still love and not the Brooklyn it has become. I read the whole book but lost interest in the halfway mark.

Thank you to Edelweiss for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.… (mehr)

Meet the Regulars by Joshua D. Fischer is a gem of a book about Brooklyn's people and places. SA short interview accompany several pictures of each person at the spot where they feel like a regular.

The people run the gamut, as do the residents of Brooklyn. While there are plenty of bars and restaurants there are a number of other places as well. Reading about how each person found the place that speaks to them, often in association with settling into Brooklyn, is fun and often reflects things we have all experienced when going to a new place and finding that we fit.

This will certainly be a fun read for anyone already living in Brooklyn but it would also be of interest to anyone about to either move to or visit Brooklyn. Additionally I think anyone interested in reading about a variety of interesting people, some you have likely heard of, will enjoy this book.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.… (mehr)