a little bit about this book and about erica wagner. as you can tell from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in brooklyn bridge park. you know, not -- most great monuments don't have, don't inspire great writing, but i would say the brooklyn bridge is an exception to all of that. you know, from hart crane, you know, to many other poets and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject. and err can ca wagner is right up there -- erica wagner is right up there. what she's done with this biography of washington roebling is even remind everyone how even though she was the son of -- he was the son of a designer, he was the person along with his wife who got it through, you know, a dozen or so years to the end. and it was only -- it's coming up, i think, on 150 years ago when his father die just up here in the heights behind you. and the young 32-year-old took over and brilliantly brought it to life. a little bit about erica. you know, she's writte

and now we're kicking off this weekend with author erica wagner. she recalls the life of the builder of the brooklyn bridge. >> the books under the bridge series has been going on for several years now. it's a wonderful program that brings together various brooklyn booksellers, and they're allowed to program a monday in july and august. and as i said, we're very lucky to always get to do it and do