bookstores
Little City Books in Hoboken
Very excited to have a new independent bookstore in Hoboken. (Now I just have to write some books.) Here’s a short article I wrote for hMAG covering Little City Book’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
A Bounty of Books
In this week’s West New York Reporter, I have an article about a newly-opened used bookstore, B&F Books. Nice young fella running the place; I wish him the best of luck!
Album Review: ‘Rock River’ by Deena
4 stars out of 5 Click to purchase on iTunes or CDBaby Back in 1987, before I’d been to Maxwell’s, before I’d been to Hoboken, there were the Cucumbers. I remember hanging out in my buddy Jeff’s room in central Jersey, listening to their song “My Boyfriend” on the radio. It was on MTV too. […]
3 Minutes on the 3rd Floor
My friend Carli forwarded a Facebook post to me: Hmmm, I’m single; I’m a guy; I’m almost exactly halfway between 30 and 55. And cool is in the eye of the beholder. Plus I had no plans for Friday night (OK, I guess I lose a few coolness points there), I am fond of women, […]
Bye-Bye, Barnes and Noble
At the end of the month, my local Barnes & Noble is shutting down. Blame the exorbitant main-street rents in this town. Blame the economy. Blame the iPad. Blame it on the rain and the bossa nova. Use any tired descriptive phrases you like: “closing the book,” “the final chapter,” (Chapter 11?). It doesn’t change […]
Jack Silbert, curator