The gonzo story of Brooklyn’s Barclays Arena and an NBA team coming to Brooklyn by the journalist who played a pivotal role in making it happen.

The Street Singer follows flat-broke subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles into contact with high-powered developer Thaddeus Hoover – a thinly-veiled take on developer Bruce Ratner.

Spirit ends up playing project supporters and opponents against each other in order to get a song he’s written to rapper BScott – a take on Brooklyn Nets minority owner Jay-Z.

This is a novel about sex, money and power in a changing Brooklyn, a musical and often humorous take on present day NYC, complete with Russian oligarchs, blogger journalists, gentrification, poverty, celebrity adulation and basketball.

An America discovering a new paradigm of global captitalism, with a reinvented Brooklyn at its core.

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"American Moses" follows the visionary wanderings of a haphazard group of Upstate New York Jews, who follow their hearts and desires in search of self and a new Promised Land. More Huck Finn than Jack Kerouac, this folk tale offers up a reflection of America in the early 21st century.

 After a small, upstate New York synagogue burns to the ground its devastated members wonder what is next. Their Rabbi vows to rebuild, but Southie Lewis, a secular Jew of modest means, offers to lead them, like Moses through the wilderness, to the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas — the fastest growing city in the U.S. — in hopes of finding a new Promised Land.

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