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May.21.2013
Photo: Book's cover from its Wikipedia page
Almost as quick a read as its predecessor, this one is told from the point of view of Stevie, from his cigarette shop, as he looks back on his past. The cast is all here, and a few more characters show up, including one of the all-time...
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May.13.2013
The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velázquez that hangs in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is surrounded by other estimable works, even a few of genius. But this work compels the viewer to look. It is a portrait of personal disappointment and anguish, and its great beauty...
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May.06.2013
Photo: Bellevue Hospital Ambulance, New York Times, 1895--from the Wikipedia page of The Alienist.
Been a few weeks away with illness, exhaustion, overwork, and some good headway on my novel and some shorter pieces. Sort of an odd time lately, mostly without focus. I've been...
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Apr.24.2013
In New York, there are many types of buses. Typically, the main routes have buses that stop every two blocks or so, but on weekdays, the same route offers "limited" buses that stop every ten blocks or so. They are meant, clearly, to get you to work really fast, almost before you can...
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Apr.07.2013
Photo: The Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library, Manhattan
I realized recently that I have a book-hoarding problem. You know, like those people on the show Hoarders, who have psychotic breaks when a professional therapist, visiting the squalid house, tells them that...
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Apr.06.2013
Has a Kafka trend erupted across the theatres of the world? Are we awaiting a Second Koming? All this plus a musical adaptation currently take place, from New York to London (twice). Kafka adaptations of various sorts. Imaginative! Yes, it must be Kafka. [DE]
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Apr.02.2013
Photo: Jackie Bradley, Jr., from nbcsports.com
A little self-advertising, if you will. The following is the first entry of a re-booted sports blog, which you can find after this at Steve's Baseball Blog.
So I'm going to give this blog another shot. Hope springs eternal, right? ...
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Mar.31.2013
The saddest thing I’ve ever heard said about New York is also the most romantic: A friend once told me she loved New York so much she couldn’t bear the thought of it going on without her.
Sad because New York can never return the sentiment.
Sad because my friend is now gone...
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Mar.28.2013
I take lots of buses in New York. I have always preferred buses to trains and I try to make sure I have a book or a few sale catalogs to read while I go from Point A to Point B. Buses have come a long way since I moved here many years ago, no pun intended. They are heated and...
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Mar.14.2013
Many thanks to Red Room for mentioning my New York stories as an “Editors Pick”. Each of the stories is set in contemporary New York City, and I now have ten of them. I’ll be writing a few more until I get to a book-length manuscript, which will be published in ebook and print editions next year....
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