Notes from the margins
Snapshots From Jazz City
Reader Chris sent this in: From the superbly named site: If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a lot [...]
Snapshots from the Back Room (of Ruby’s Bar and Grill)
Now, I know I haven’t posted in awhile . . . but I’ve been busy. I’ll have a proper post [...]
1920′s New York: the first Jazz Age
I’ve long had a fascination with the New York depicted in the Great Gatsby. Not nearly so important a city [...]
Pilgrims: A Novel
'Pilgrims' is set in 1991 New York. The background is New York at the end of the First Gulf War, with the crack epidemic raging across the city, and the beginning of the East Village's gentrification. The first chapter can be seen in Sensitive Skin Magazine.
