"Don't ever start a story by talking about the weather," Oscar told me one particularly cold and drizzly day. We were all sitting around in Washington Square Park's mostly empty fountain. We were liza
...e Oregon Book Award for Fiction. She heads the Writing and Literature Degree Program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on Chambers Street. ...
...-Whirl in her backyard in Keansburg, NJ, and her heart still
beats a bit faster every time she crosses into Manhattan . As Lynn
Crystal, she can be heard throughout the five boroughs and beyond as
h...
...A-Whirl in her backyard in Keansburg, NJ, and her heart still beats a bit faster every time she crosses into Manhattan . As Lynn Crystal, she can be heard throughout the five boroughs and beyond as hos...
...S New York City Poetry Slam team. He performs poetry throughout the nation from University Theaters to Manhattan needle exchange centers, and lives in New York City where he spends the majority ...
...und. She once performed a poem to a PATH car full of curious onlookers going from Hoboken to Manhattan just so she would have something interesting to put in her bio. Beverly vis...
MacDougal and Bleecker
We were talking about our aging parents when my friend asked if I take notes. I thought she meant notes toward stories, but she meant notes to myself that I’d read in the futu
...ad of my head in his left palm, clippers droning in his right,he focuses on the buildingsblowing a veil over Manhattan
Carl walks in, boasting 'boutstealing steaks after a Murray’ssupervisor announc...
... means, he now lives in Mount Vernon with his wife and kids -- his nightly retreat from his marketing job in Manhattan ....
Richard Price's Lush Life: A Novel takes an uncompromising look at a supposedly revitalized New York City, exposing the junkie beneath the expensively tailored suit that Rudy Giuliani likes to cl
... the natives wouldn’t let us cover their city with rancid mountains of trash just to service some transplant Manhattan ite.
I guess I should have been happy because of the money I was making...
Adam Karas is a Colorado native who moved to NYC in 1999 and has lived in Brooklyn, New Jersey and now Manhattan , and lived in Europe and Asia for five years prior. When not working in technology
the night we met we walked cross-town(after conversation & cocktails),in the desperate heat of july,to Union Square
before getting the Q to Coney Islandyou pulled me around the U bend of the par
Fire in the Deutsche Bank Building, NYCFor Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia
Sizzle, gallop, pushing spew of spark and anglefire beyond its normal rage and human border,threatening skin. And Jose
...cafés without ever being physically assaulted, or losing your wallet to the wiles of its sexy older sibling, Manhattan . This is where the resemblance between London and Brooklyn ends. London is expens...
...ed your writing?
Ivan Brandon: For whatever reason, my writing seems in one way or another to gravitate to Manhattan 's Lower East Side. It's a place that's very quickly morphing into something...
Malcolm was fed 16 bullets because of his. A slug kissed the jaw of King Jr. and silenced him forever. Gandhi shriveled like snakeskin. Joan of Arc became Joan of Ash—So you can understand why Melle M
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...resident 2008 meets every Tuesday at 7PM in the Upstairs Dining Room of OLD TOWN BAR, 45 East 18th Street in Manhattan . For more information, check out http://www.bloomberg08nyc.com/ ...
...how could we be expected to keep saying no as our blue-tied reflection careened through shadowy tunnels into Manhattan when even Joltin’ Joe, La Bella Figura,hooked up with Marilyn who never said no, h...
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... another aspect to remember and mourn in new way but all I have are the words that came the day the smell of Manhattan drifted into my once safe, Brooklyn habitat. In times when leaving and dismissing...
I’m an idiot because once before we were married she asked me whether I knewthat we would not be having childrenif we did get married, and I said yes.
And because she knew I was lying,she asked if I
I was deeply moved by Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers before I even opened the book. As a Manhattan ite, the World Trade Center's twin towers used to be my New York City lodestone. With my
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Adam Karas is a Colorado native who moved to NYC in 1999 and has lived in Brooklyn, New Jersey and now Manhattan , and lived in Europe and Asia for five years prior. When not working in technolog...
