from the M100 bus on East 125th St.
“Never eat at a place called Mom’s, never play cards with a man named Doc and never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you.” – Nelson Algren
Bongo Voodoo Night at Club 57.
36 years ago tonight: Journal entry for sis’s party. Saturday, March 22, 1982. Bongo Voodoo Night at Club 57. Frenzied ceremonial dancing / death dolls / cursed chickens / rare films – Witch Doctor (a short) & Know Your Snakes. It was the world premiere of Bradly Fields’s Voodoo Rhapsody, which instigated the infidelibration of […]
Private Libraries Make Novel Use of Booksellers (including me).
How to assemble a bespoke collection for the home. by Emily Rhodes. From the Financial Times, March 10, 2018: The Duke of Devonshire’s library at Chatsworth House © Paul Barker, reproduced by permission of Chatsworth House Trust. “A library is your story on a shelf,” says Nicky Dunne, manager of Heywood Hill, the London bookshop […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library