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January 25, 1987
Like 7 Google +1 0 Retweet 6 The New York Giants are heading to Indianapolis for their fifth Super Bowl. 25 years ago, I spent a perfect day in Pasadena. “Tommy, want some action?” Al said to me on...
View ArticleTo The Basketball Playing Men and Women of Letters
Like 0 Google +1 0 Retweet 2 I recently read a fanciful article in which a literary East/West all-star basketball game is imagined and scouted. Dave Eggers and Stephen Elliott are the starting back...
View ArticleA Forgotten Game
Like 9 Google +1 0 Retweet 1 I don’t know who invented the game or whether it is still played today. Slap Ball had a brief vogue in New York City schoolyards in the early Sixties, and in Jackson...
View ArticleBarking at Tourists
Like 21 Google +1 0 Retweet 4 “You guys like comedy?” The young Armenian-looking couple stares straight ahead; their paces don’t slow as they walk past me. “No? Ok, no problem,” I mutter to myself...
View ArticleOn Randall’s Island
Like 0 Google +1 0 Retweet 0 Why am I on Randall’s Island, shivering in a ski jacket, gloves, a scarf, and a blanket wrapped around me? It is 7 PM on a Friday evening, and I can see the Manhattan...
View ArticleBensonhurst Nicknames ca. 1966 – 1980, Annotated.
Like 191 Google +1 0 Retweet 33 [This list contains all the nicknames of kids I can remember from my childhood (age 7 - 21, approx.) in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. See explanatory notes for each nickname...
View ArticleThat’s My Daughter In The Water
Like 9 Google +1 0 Retweet 1 Getting your two year old daughter into a bathing suit in a men’s changing room can be a bit like stuffing an eel into a pillowcase. For some reason I thought the smart...
View ArticleBody English
Like 43 Google +1 0 Retweet 1 In the summer of ’77, I met Mark Roth in Pathmark on Hylan Boulevard. Heading home from a Sunday drive, my parents stopped to pick up groceries for dinner, and waiting in...
View ArticleBelow 14th
Like 82 Google +1 0 Retweet 4 In the summer of 1984, I sublet an apartment on East 3rd Street between Avenue A and B, about one hundred yards from the building in which I had spent the first 18 years...
View ArticleWild Thing
Like 10 Google +1 0 Retweet 3 I was walking down Broadway near Lincoln Center at noon on a Thursday afternoon in May with my old friend Ruth Lopez when we came upon two people on the sidewalk, doing...
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