Notes from the margins
Looking back at ‘Gringo: Story of a Junkie’
Photo: Urban Photos I wrote about Gringo some months ago but the film-maker, my old pal Lech Kowalski, yanked the [...]
NY Memories: Gringo (Story of a Junkie)
Photo source: Flaming Pablum I first saw ‘Gringo’ (also known at ‘Story of a Junkie’) shortly before I moved to [...]
Tompkins Square Park Pt. 1
When I first arrived in New York, Tompkins Square Park was the site of one of numerous homeless camps around [...]
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.
