Love 'em or hate 'em, hipsters have made their way into a real-life bounded book that will be available for purchase next spring. What does Generation Hipster look like in black & white? It ain't pretty. 6 Sick Hipsters, by Rayo Casablanca, follows "Williamsburg's reigning elite" and brings some noir to the neighborhood...as well as a feral baboon.
The press release tells us a bit of what we can expect: "Lately someone has been laying waste to Brooklyn's uber-hipsters, dispatching them in gruesome fashion. Before the week is over, they'll be up to their skinny-jean waists in mayhem, manipulation, contract killers, raw sewage, and murderous monkeys. Something is rotten in the state of Billyburg, and the last hipsters standing will discover just how rotten it really is." Sewage and skinny jeans...all sounds pretty realistic until you get to the murderous monkeys. We asked Mr. Casablanca a little bit about his homage to the H-word:
What Williamsburg bars and restaurants are in the book?
While I didn't name check any bars, restaurants outright, I did base all of the locales in my book on real places. There is a very Barcade-like bar in the novel called Arcadia. Another bar I called Bossy's is modeled on Enid's, among others. "Royal Delhi" (in Park Slope in the book) is based on Williamsburg's Taj Mahal (North 5th). The Getty gas station on Union makes an appearance (though I spruced it up a bit). Some places I just made up.
