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Until I was 10 we lived in a housing project in Queens. Filled with young families, Pomonok was often a way-station of a five to ten years before affording a home in the suburbs. It wasn't bad; in fact, I remember enjoying the ready availability of friends to play on the huge lawns we were not supposed to set foot on, and being able to walk to school. My elementary school, PS 201 ("what are the co...
Angels In My Corner
Sep 25, 2021
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In 1976 I returned to New York from a university year in Japan, and got a job in one of Manhattan’s two Japanese bookstores at the time. The Zen Japanese Bookstore (which had nothing “zen” about it) sold books, magazines, and offered magazine subscriptions, as this was back in the days of pre-internet yore when people had no choice but to get specialty magazines by snail mail (which we calle...
Mick Jagger’s Chinese Cookbooks
Sep 25, 2021
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