Famous Writers Take Over Kos Kaffe: Welcome to the Park Slope Twilight Zone

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Imagine, if you will, walking into 5th Avenue's Kos Kaffe and spotting forty or so writers hunched over laptops and intently working away on what they think is the next stroke of literary genius. Not so much of a stretch in these parts, right? But what if I told you that said writers were hard at work at 6AM... something would seem a little off, right? Most coffee shop writers I know don't start working until 9 or 10AM. But wait -- what if when you wiped the gook out of your early-morning eyes and looked around, you noticed that these coffee shop patrons were actually NYC's literary finest, like Kurt Anderson, Michael Cunningham, Darin Strauss, Jennifer Egan and John Burnham Schwartz? Then you'd probably vow never to smoke up on a Tuesday night again, right? 

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