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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

 

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Favorite Memoirs

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death really liked itThe Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

by Colson Whitehead
This Boy's Life it was amazingThis Boy’s Life 
by Tobias Wolff
The Silent Traveller In Londonit was amazingThe Silent Traveller In London
by Chiang Yee
A Drinking Lifereally liked itA Drinking Life
by Pete Hamill
Manhattan, When I Was Youngreally liked itManhattan, When I Was Young
by Mary Cantwell
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoirit was amazingKafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard
A Moveable Feastreally liked itA Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
Whipping Boyreally liked itWhipping Boy
by Allen Kurzweil
Under the Tuscan Sunreally liked itUnder the Tuscan Sun
by Frances Mayes
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Favorite New York City Books

 

The Orphanmaster: A Novel of Early Manhattan
Elizabeth Street
The Gods of Gotham
A Walker in the City
The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld
Christ in Concrete
The Diary of George Templeton Strong
Here Is New York
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
In the Shadow of Gotham
How the Other Half Lives
Manhattan, When I Was Young
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

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Jews Without Money

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

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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