The Brooklyn Paramount Theatre: Michael Hittman on the Shrine Everyone Walked Past
Dr. Michael Hittman joins Eric Jorgenson to tell the story behind The Brooklyn Paramount Theatre: An Intimate Portrait — and it is unlike most Author Hour conversations. Michael is an anthropologist who spent 46 years teaching at Long Island University, played pickup basketball for half a century in the Paramount's auditorium (the Guinness people once called to confirm it), and hosted 174 jazz radio shows — all, he admits, while barely paying attention to the "shrine" next door. This episode is the story of how he finally saw it.
Michael traces the book from its unlikely origins — his…
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