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Page Four, PHOENIXWorks By Local Writers ListedBY CORRINE COLEMANA revival of interest in literary and theatrical activity seems to be paralleling the intensified involvement in the visual arts in South and Central Brooklyn this year.At year%u2019s end, Brooklyn Heights is being graced with another Bookstore, The Penny Bridge, and heightened activity was noted in two flourishing neighborhood book emporiums, Womrath%u2019s in the Heights and The Community Bookstore in Park Slope, with their publication ceremonies for Norman Rosten and Emmett Grogan earlier this season.The Socialist Workers Bookstore, with information about current activism and histories of past revolutions and revolutionaries, has had a successful first year at its Lawrence St. headquarters. 72 was the year for the inauguration of poetry readings at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday afternoons, for addedadded poetry evenings at local churches, and for this summer%u2019s Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk %u2014 a celebration devised by poet Daniela Gioseffi, with local poets reading their own and earlier tributes to the bridge, to the tunes of local Pied Piper David Amram.The Heights, Gallery and Boerum Hill Players have had successful seasons, the Chelsea Theater has had sold-out weeks, and The Brooklyn Academy brought the Romanian Yiddish Theater to its hall, as well as the Nuria Espert Company of Spain. In recent weeks, the Masterworksa Park Slope landm arksince 1910,off G rand Arm y P lazaLUNCHEO NDINNERCOCKTAIL LO U N G EBA NQ UET FACILITIESfree parkingclosed M ondaysow ned and op eratedby the M ichel fam ily3 4 6 Flatbush A venueNE 8 -4 5 5 2Laboratory Theater came over from The other side, to present its first production, %u201c Danton%u2019s Death,%u201d at its new Spencer Memorial Church quarters.This has been quite a pickup from the recent past, when despite the many writer-residents in South Brooklyn, attempts at livelier local literary activity %u2014 like the coffee house poetry workshop begun in Brooklyn Heights about a decade ago%u2014 were disparaged by the communities rather than supported.In those not too long ago days, bookstores would open optimistically in the %u201cbookish%u201d neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, and last long enough to clinch a Brownstoner%u2019s decision to move this side of the bridge. The days of the %u201850%u2019s drought, and the aftermath, left much to be desired within the literary realm, in the neighborhoods of Walt Whitman and Thomas Wolfe. The area indeed wallowed in %u201cprogressive provincialism%u201d as was boasted by a prominent Heights chronicler a few years ago.But the past hovers over the Brooklyn atmosphere like a borough racial memory, and though literary landmarks have been razed, mementos removed, and innovations retarded for a time, the very old associations were never quite wiped out. More and more writers are coming to stay in the area, moved by the old associations as much as by the 19th Century Brownstones, the waterfront, and Prospect Park. The bookstores, the theaters, the readings add up to a picture of a beginning RenaissanceW iK a m H . V a n V le c kW INES&FINE SPIRITS116 M o n ta g u e StCommended byNew YorkMagazine forour Superiorselection ofwines.D elivery:M A 5 -5 4 4 4Capu/etshofiraguef e s f c a u r o n t - h x bLunch*D in n erStit+SmnC r u n c h ,And as part of the revival of Brooklyn consciousness year, a year-end listing of recent and forthcoming works by local authors, as well as some mention of 1972 books about the borough, follows:FICTIONCURRENTWinning Hearts and Minds, War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, edited by Jan Barry of Boerum Hill; first published by Barry%u2019s %u201cFirst Casualty Press%u201d at Barry%u2019s home on Dean St. in soft cover at $1.95. Now reprinted and distributed by McGraw Hill in hard and soft cover.A Meaningful Life, in the midst of a Brownstone renovation by Boerum Hill author, Frisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune critic, L. J. Davis. Viking, $6.98. A u th o r N o rm a n RostenFogarty and Co., by Voice writer Joe Flaherty, Coward McCann.A u tho r G ro g a nWestern Coast, by Paula Fox, the Cobble Hill author of %u201cDesperate Characters%u201d Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, $7.95.Cotillion, by Crown Heights author John Oliver Killens, Trident.Hind%u2019s Kidnap, %u201ca pastoral on familiar airs,%u201d by Brooklyn Heights author Joseph McElroy. Harper & Stow.The Scene -1, anthology of off-off Broadway Plays, by Boerum Hill writer Stanley Nelson.Small Sounds and TiltingShadows, winner of this year%u2019s third prize, O%u2019Henry award. Part of a novel in progress by Judy Rascoe. Doubleday.Over and Out by poet novelist Norman Rosten of the Heights, whose previous %u201c Under the Boardwalk%u201d is out in paperback. The author%u2019s psyche is %u201cstill attuned to the shapeless borough,%u201d he says. George Braziller, $5.95.Someone Just Like You, short stories by Park Slope author of %u201cThe Bag%u201d and %u201cFertig,%u201d Sol Yurick. %u201cFrom the satirical to the surreal %u2014 contemporary anduniversal.%u201d Harper & Row, $6.95. FORTHCOMING FICTIONMemorial Day, by L. J. Davis. Just completed work by the Boerum Hill novelist. Another local setting.Solomon's Temple, by Stanley Hoffman.John Henry, by John Oliver Killens. Doubleday.Voices of Brooklyn, edited by Sol Yurick. Short works by 200 as yet unknown Brooklyn authors. Includes poems by Ivan Arguelles of Fort Greene, article by Ann West of Park Slope. American Library Association. (Spring).A novel by Prospect Heights writer, Jonathon Baumbach. Still untitled, will be coming forth in 1973.NONFICTIONStraight by William Aaron of Park Slope. What its like to grow up homosexual in America by a homosexual who changed. Doubleday, $6.95.Bricks & Brownstones. Lots about Brooklyn Brownstones by jCharles l,ockwood of Ft Green. McGraw Hill, $17.95.Ringalevio, by %u201cdigger%u201d Emmett Grogan who recently moved back to Brooklyn. %u201cA life lived for keeps begins in Boerum Hill. Little Brown.The Boys of Summer. Best seller about that old borough baseball team, by Roger P. Kahn. Harper & Row.Norman Mailer Convention Book. Paper original by New American Library.Existential Errands. A compendium of pronouncements by Heights author, Mailer. Little Brown. (Mailer%u2019s '71 books were Fire on the Moon and A Prisoner of Sex).A House in the City. A guide tobuying and renovating old row houses by H. Dixon McKenna. Von Nostrand Reinhold, $12.95.The Great Bridge. The hit of theyear by David McCullough, the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Simon & Schuster, $10.95.D id n ' t &Ct t o < r ^ < 4 t h i s y e A R ?Then v i s i t Mk, 5 0UVLAK!147 /'A owT a g u c . St .That Pestilant Cosmetic Rhetoric by Sol Chanles and Jerome Snyder of Brooklyn Heights. Book designed by Gertrude Snyder. Grossman, $7.95.Woman Power, by Celestine Ware of Park Slope. Tower Paperback, 95 cents.NON FICTION FORTHCOMING I Took a Hammer in My Hand. A woman%u2019s guide to carpentry, plumbing and electricity, by Cobble Hill writer, teacher, computer manager, Florence Adams. William Morrow.Interviews & Portfolio of New York State Council on Neighborhood Change, by Shalman Bernstein and Angela Wilson of Prospect Heights.Macraine, by Spencer DePas of Fort Greene.CHILDREN%u2019S BOOKSThe Enduring Beast. Poems and stories using animals. Edited and illustrated by Miriam Beerman. Doubleday. $4.95.Children's Cook Book; Kids in the Kitchen, by Joan Eckstein of Brooklyn Heights and Joyce Gleit, once of Brooklyn Heights. Avon, paperback, $2.95.What Will She Be - A Veterinarian, by Gloria & Esther Goodrich of Concord Village. Photographs by Robert Ipcar of Boerum Hill.Maxie, by Mildred Kantrowitz of Brooklyn Heights. By the same author, I Wonder if Herbie%u2019s Home Yet, illustrated by Heights artist Tony DeLuna, and Goodbye Kitchen.Frog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel.Stevie and Uptown Train Ride. Two books by young author and Brooklyn Museum prodigy, John Steptoe. Harper & Row.FORTHCOMINGMushy Eggs, by Florence Adams %u2014 G. P. Putnam.'A n n e Frank%u2019Jay Julian will direct the new Heights Players production of %u201cThe Diary of Ann Frank%u201d which opens on January 12 for a threeweekend run at the playhouse at 26 Willow Place. Performances will be given on January 12-13, 19-20, and 26-27 beginning at 8:30 p.m. For reservations and ticket information, call 625-8875.r v ^ n r v n /SkCmhmmmr \\ w f \\ / i r \\ n TOWIRItm m mE a t Drink And Be Merry^ Hoyt & Bergen Streets 858-3392t Parrish Pharmacy |7 2 Henry 5r.corner of O rangeserving Brooklyn Heightssince 1885For quality,Dependabilityand Servicecall MA 4-1871