Germany's invasion of Belgium is on the horizon ... AUSTEN: Yes. I lived in the building. I lived in Brussels for some time. I was commuting to Prague and working for Vaclav Havel's nascent ...
In a quiet residential area of Brussels, tucked away among the modern and uniform facades of the Forest neighbourhood, sits a house that is giving birth to a unique project which could ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Alice Austen about her novel "33 Place Brugmann." Set in Brussels during WWII, it tracks the residents of one building whose lives are upended by the Nazi occupation.