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FAMOUS FOR NEVER – ON SALE

December 18, 2022 – 9:48 pm

FAMOUS FOR NEVER A STORY OF FAME AND MISFORTUNE BY PETER NOLAN SMITH Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. – James Steele MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2022 In the 1970s city politicians launched countless projects to stem the tide of ‘white flight’. None of the doomed programs achieved their goals and the population of the Lower East […]

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FOR THE LOVE OF HOCKEY by Peter Nolan Smith

January 30, 2022 – 1:01 pm

My paternal grandfather had a saying about the seasons in Maine. “There are two seasons up here; winter and preparing for winter.” My early childhood contradicted this adage, for my five year-old senses recognized a very short and wet spring followed by a little longer and slightly warmer summer capped by a short and wet […]

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JANUARY 16, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

January 17, 2022 – 11:58 pm

Jim Fouratt hired our CBGBs gang to work at the New School registering students. He laughed upon seeing me, since he only like the way I had defended gays in the punk clubs. The music impresario leaned over and said, “None of these fools realize that as many people have graduated from the New School […]

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Excerpt From WHEN FAT MEN FLY -CHAPTER 3

January 10, 2022 – 6:03 pm

New Years revelers surged through the 5th Avenue entrance across from the Plaza Hotel. The cops had erected a barricade across the road to Central Park. Nick showed his MD pass. They waved us into the park and we drove to the boathouse. It was quarter to 1971. Eddie got out of the front seat, […]

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JOURNAL ENTRY – DECEMBER 30, 1978 – EAST VILLAGE

January 10, 2022 – 5:40 pm

Dallas trumphed over Atlanta and the Steelers bettered the Brocnos to set up the two teams playing in SuperBowl XIII, as the NFL uses Roman numeral to classy up the most profitable Battle of Brawn of 1979. Alice will return to New York after a long holiday in West Virginia. She telephoned last night with […]

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