On Saturday morning, BHB had the opportunity to chat with Boerum Hill resident/Brooklyn Heights based novelist, playwright and filmmaker Peter Hedges. His credits include the novel and the screenplay What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, writer-director of Pieces of April and Dan in Real Life as well as an Academy Award nomination as co-writer of the screenplay […]
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Peter Hedges Talks The Heights
By Homer Fink on February 27, 2010 4:09 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents
Peter Hedges’ Novel, The Heights, Set For March Debut
By Claude Scales on February 12, 2010 10:19 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Events
Novelist, screenwriter, director and actor Peter Hedges, whose studio is on Montague Street, has completed a new novel, The Heights, set in–where else?–Brooklyn Heights. Publishers Weekly reviewer Sandrea Talarico calls it “spellbinding”:
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