Thus does art meet commerce, as reported by Leon Neyfakh in the New York Observer: Joanna Smith Rakoff had just completed revisions of her novel, Brooklyn, which she’d been working on for six years, when her editor took her out to dinner to tell her, eh, another writer, Colm Tóibín, whose middle name is “has been short-listed for the Booker Prize twice,” wanted to call his next novel Brooklyn, and, er, well …. Rakoff’s novel, A Fortunate Age, will be out in April. Tóibín’s Brooklyn will be out in May.