An Educational Haven at Harlem’s Little Black Book Shop turned B&B

Sundays at the Triple Nickel

Sunday afternoons Margie and Rudel play just above my head, 3-F, in our garden. Sometimes we’ll hang on our stoop with the local historians and tell about the way it should be. When this bad time pass all you should come visit and listen up to some Uptown stories about how life turns man up […]

From the Journals: Summer, 1975: In the Ruins of New York.

(photo: Duncan Hannah) Preface. When working Savran’s Books on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank Campus in 1973 visiting poetess Patti Smith suggests, “You should go to New York, they’d like you there,” and she told me I looked like James Dean. I don’t. This after Steve and I, drunk, heckled her during her reading […]