Everybody ought to have a Lower East Side in their life. – Irving Berlin
After retiring from a career with the City of New York Robert began writing about his experiences. His work has been published in Hypertext, Gastronomica, ArtAscent and other journals and anthologies. Robert has had a special feature published in The Mississippi Sun Herald about his volunteer work on the Mississippi Coast after Katrina. He has a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from New York University and lives in New York City.
Each man reads his own meaning into New York. – Meyer Berger
Favorite Memoirs
Favorite New York City Books
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Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Michael Gold captures a time and place – the Lower East Side in the early 1900s.
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
After reading ‘We have Always Lived in the Castle’ and ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ I was surprised to see what a normal person Shirley Jackson was. Her memoir is fun to read and also a picture of suburban living in the late 1940s.
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