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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Audiobook Summary

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City–a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with “the serious, life-threatening process” of gentrification.

Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and sociocultural importance of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn’s largest historically black community, through the lens of a coming-of-age young American negro artist living at the dawn of an era in which urban class warfare is politely referred to as gentrification. Bookended by accounts of two different breakups, from a roommate and a lover, both who come from the white American elite, the book oscillates between chapters of urban bildungsroman and a historical examination of some of Bed-Stuy’s most salient aesthetic and political legacies.

Filled with personal stories and a vibrant cast of iconoclastic characters– friends and acquaintances such as Spike Lee; Lena Dunham; and Paul MacCleod, who made a living charging $5 for a tour of his extensive Elvis collection–Making Rent in Bed-Stuy poignantly captures what happens when youthful idealism clashes head-on with adult reality.

Melding in-depth reportage and personal narrative that investigates the disappointments and ironies of the Obama era, the book describes Brandon Harris’s radicalization, and the things he lost, and gained, along the way.

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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Audiobook Narrator

Brandon Massey is the narrator of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy audiobook that was written by Brandon Harris

Brandon Harris, originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, has worked in the world of American independent film as a critic and programmer, producer and director, screenwriter and educator. His writings about cinema, politics, culture, and the intersections between them have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Guardian, VICE, Daily Beast, Variety, n+1, New Inquiry, Brooklyn Rail, In These Times, Hammer to Nail, and Filmmaker magazine, where he is a contributing editor.

About the Author(s) of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

Brandon Harris is the author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Full Details

Narrator Brandon Massey
Length 8 hours 34 minutes
Author Brandon Harris
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date June 06, 2017
ISBN 9780062681430

Subjects

The publisher of the Making Rent in Bed-Stuy is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage

Additional info

The publisher of the Making Rent in Bed-Stuy is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062681430.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Abram

July 16, 2017

Great book, a deeply personal, thoroughly researched, and profoundly compelling look at the recolonization of our urban centers with somewhat long diversions into familiar and deep cuts of independent film. The diversion about the founder of Graceland 2 was kind of long, but I'll still give it five stars because it does such an impressive job of demonstrating the burdens and blessings of being able to code switch in 21st Century America, and the journey of self-discovery that many of us living out the intersection of melanation and privilege are still going through.

Gracie

November 16, 2020

Wonderful, interesting memoir combining the gentrification of Brooklyn with experiences as a POC in the film industry.

Lillian

March 08, 2021

One of many who survived the Big AppleSay what you will about the Bohemian New York of yesteryear but those days are gone. As Mr Harris says in his book, it's beyond hard trying to make rent in the formerly predominant African American neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant when you are Black. He gives highly detailed accounts of his life and the changes to that neighborhood. P.S., try to watch his films. I certainly will.

DeJuan Encarnacion

January 13, 2018

Best Book I've read in along time.This is a must read book. it brings you through all of Brandon Harris's ups and downs. He is still fighting to become successful in the film business.

Kyle

February 02, 2022

A really honest and well-written memoir about race, gentrification, class, the film industry, and so much more

Alex

September 04, 2017

Through a haze of pot smoke and not-enough jobs, Harris recounts a decade of change in Bed-Stuy and shows us a millenial's New York far different than the one of Lena Dunham's Girls.

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