Walk from Time Square to Union Square to Brooklyn

The Criterion office is on Park Avenue. It’s really huge. Kim Hendrickson gave me a tour which ended in this tiny room with all their dvds. And I got a bag full of the greatest films. (Georg: JP Gorins three films are in the bag) I enjoyed the walk down from 47th Street so much that I checked on Google how long it would take to walk to Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn. 1hour 20. That’s makable.

Woman with silver bag in the Bowery:

Quite a lot of people walking and on bicycles on the Manhattan bridge.

Google is wrong. It took me 1hour 20 to walk down to the Manhattan Bridge and cross it, but it is at least another half hour to get from the bridge to Flatbush Ave. Or am I slow/ do they run?
Anyway I met Ben Lerner in the Barn, which is next to the Farm and everybody at Criterion knew it. It’s a bar and a restaurant with a nice garden. Ben just became a father and he said he has to show me pictures of his baby. Lucia. She looks like him without the glasses. He took them off to prove it but without glasses he doesn’t look like Ben anymore.
His book Leaving the Atocha Station is just  published in German at Rowohlt. Abschied von Atocha it is called. Look out for it, it’s great. Ben has just bought a flat in Brooklyn and has sold his next novel. It will be out a year from now. He was supposed to be in Berlin next week for the festival but they wanted him to stay only for one night and then go to Austria. To a town he doesn’t remember. We had quite a lot of drinks and an artichoke dip. I took a taxi back to Manhattan.