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sheila-english's picture
Jun.10.2011
New York sex therapist, Dr. Morgan Snow struggles with the conflict of preserving her patient’s privacy and the dangerous, sometimes criminal things she hears. From the abused to the depraved, from couples grappling with sexual boredom to twisted sociopaths with dark fetishes. The Butterfield...
jane-p-perry's picture
May.31.2011
Recorded on the 3 Seventh Avenue Express, Uptown, May 2005 For have to not die. Got AIDS. Right now myself die. Oh! Cancer. Throat cancer. Right now I got nothin’ to eat. For those who doh know me I’m a very uhhappy. I got pain in my stomach. I’m not supposed to be beggin like that. I beg Gesu....
alan-kaufman's picture
Apr.05.2011
DRUNKEN ANGEL is the story of a rebel poet's climb from drunken hell to reclaim the gift he betrayed and to find the daughter he abandoned. Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the PTSD that drove him to the edge of madness, and the...
sheila-english's picture
Aug.04.2010
In the summer of 1929, Winston Churchill recruits law professor Bourke Cockran and Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary to foil a German-backed IRA gun running plot in the US that threatens to plunge the world into war. Learn more about this book and these authors: http://www....
sheila-english's picture
Aug.04.2010
In the summer of 1929, Winston Churchill recruits law professor Bourke Cockran and Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary to foil a German-backed IRA gun running plot in the US that threatens to plunge the world into war. Learn more about this book and these authors: http://www....
mariette-ana-papic's picture
Mar.02.2010
An entry reflecting my life in one of New York's party scenes,Corn Plastic Dance Floor, reveals some of what I learned in the darker spaces and far flung loft's of a scene that alternately employed, delivered and often threatened to destroy me. this was originally recorded for and appeared on...
jennifer-van-bergen's picture
May.01.2009
This was recorded in 1978. The North River was what Henry Hudson called the Hudson River. Thre is an indirect reference to Storm King mountain, which is on the river. The commuter train line into NYC runs right along the river. My younger sister, Christina (Cowan) Richmond, sang the harmony vocals...
amy-king's picture
Sep.27.2008
Amy King reads at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn on September 12, 2008.
andrew-kaplan's picture
Jun.24.2008
It is 1986, and aspiring actor Edward Zanni has been kicked out of drama school for being "too jazz hands for Juilliard." Mortified, Edward heads out into the urban jungle of eighties New York City and finally lands a job as a "party motivator" who gets thirteen-year-olds to dance at bar mitzvahs...