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Fifi The Rasta

July 14, 2023 – 9:02 am

Back in the 1980s I loved Paris in the summertime, especially during ‘le Grand Depart’, France’s traditional month-long vacation slot. A large percentage of Parisian disappeared from the City of Light. The traffic or ‘circulation’ lessened and the skies cleared of diesel fumes. Of course hundreds of thousands of tourists replaced the native population in […]

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Les Miserables

July 14, 2023 – 1:42 am

A year ago at a dinner on the Upper East Side an American art collector mentioned that he had called a hotel in France to rent a room and the desk clerk informed Devlin that the only available room was on the ground floor. “Where is the entrance?” “Next to the desk.” “So your guests […]

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GHOULS OF PERE LA CHAISE by Peter Nolan Smith

June 26, 2023 – 1:35 am

The 1980s were thirty years in the past from the 2010s and when I told stories at the 169 Bar, my young listeners suspected that I was lying about jumping off the Quincy Quarries cliffs or nearly making love with Darryl Hannah in Jamaica or watching bears eat garbage at a Maine dump. Sometimes I […]

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June 21, 1990 – Paris – Journal Entry

June 21, 2023 – 9:20 am

Rainy day in Paris. A great title for my sixth novel, which I will be writing when I’m 110. Spook Jacobs sent my lease renewal for 256 East 10th Street along with letters from the past five months of my travels; two from AJ, one from Sharon who has come out of rehab, from Nina […]

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OUT ON THE RUNWAY

May 14, 2023 – 1:28 am

The East Village lays west of the East River. I loved their with the hillbilly girlfriend in 1978. Alice was a little bit country and a lot of David Bowie. Insomnia was a family trait and my mind wandered the world before dawn In the tenement apartment I marveled at the marble whiteness of her […]

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