[net.books] Quote source needed

citrin@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne Citrin) (02/23/86)

I need the original source for the following quote:

   "Only the <something> know Brooklyn."

I've seen it three times in the last few months, the first time in a
Mark Helprin piece in the NY Times Magazine as "Only the dead know 
Brooklyn," and twice in this week's NY Times Book Review.  In the
book review it appeared once as above as the title of a new mystery,
and once in a similar form as the title of another review.

Thanks.
 
Wayne Citrin
(ucbvax!citrin)

nobi@mtuxo.UUCP (m.juliar) (02/25/86)

"Only the dead know Brooklyn" is the title of an awful short story 
by Thomas Wolfe (not Tom Wolfe).