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I’m really looking forward to a pair of upcoming events: On Thursday, January 26th, at 7 p.m., I’ll be at the Warner Library in Tarrytown, N.Y., reading from and talking about “Rip,” my modern-day parody of Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.” In his later years, Irving lived at Sunnyside, his home on the Hudson River [...]
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Hooray! My short novel, “Rip,” a 20th-century parody of “Rip Van Winkle” (Rip is a toll collector on the Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown…he and his ne’er-do-well friends, the Sleepy Hollow Boys, do battle with a group of feminists who take up the cause of Rip’s wife….) is now (finally!) available as a Kindle edition. [...]
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A bookish boy returns home
Yes, I was a bookish boy. And I was a baseball boy, first baseman and outfield in the Park Hill Little League. That’s why, when I was 9 years old and discovered the majestic old main branch of the Yonkers, N.Y., Public Library, at the corner of North Broadway and Nepperhan, I naturally gravitated to [...]
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Tags: "Rip", books, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carnegie library, childhood reading, New York Giants, New York Yankees, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Nodine Hill, old Yonkers library, Yonkers, Yonkers Public Library
My novel “Rip,” a parody of Washington Irving’s classic “Rip Van Winkle,” is available at these locations: Nighthawk Books, 212 Raritan Ave., Highland Park, N.J. Book Garden, 26 Bridge Street, Frenchtown, N.J. Half Moon Books, 35 North Front St., Kingston, N.Y. Whimsies Incognito, 35 South Broadway, Tarrytown, N.Y. Market St. Market, 95 Market St., Lowell, [...]
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Tags: "Rip van Winkle" parody, "Rip", American literature, DiGiovanni, Humor, Nicholas DiGiovanni, parody, Rip Van Winkle, satire, Washington Irving
Amazing! My book’s on Amazon!
My novella “Rip,” the funniest book since Dick Cheney’s autobiography, is now available for purchase through Amazon! (It’s only available in print form at the moment; Kindle edition should be available within a few days). It isn’t just a great work of humor/satire/parody/stock market tips/advice to the lovelorn/travel writing/political analysis/historical fiction/zombie lore/fashion forecasts. It’s also [...]
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Tags: "Rip", Black Angel Press, DiGiovanni, fiction, Humor, Nicholas DiGiovanni, parody, Rip Van Winkle, satire, Washington Irving
As part of marketing plans for my novellas “Rip” (a modern-day parody of “Rip van Winkle”) and “The Dogs of Arroyo” (a spooky and surreal parable set in Puerto Rico) which both have a publication target date of November 15, I’ve started a Twitter feed. So, if you’re a tweeter or a reader of tweets [...]
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Tags: "Rip van Winkle" parody, American literature, Black Angel Press, Humor, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Rip Van Winkle, satire, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Off to a pretty good (kick)start
Just four days after launching my kickerstarter.com project — seeking $1,200 in funding from backers to publish my novella “Rip,” a satirical (and incredibly funny and remarkably witty) modern-day “retelling” of Washington Irving’s classic “Rip van Winkle” — we’re already just shy of 20 percent of the goal. Thanks! Please keep on pledging…or consider pledging [...]
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Tags: "Rip van Winkle" parody, American literature, Black Angel Press, Humor, kickstart.com, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Rip Van Winkle, satire, Washington Iriving
Journey through the past
The two of us were driving through the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, traveling back in time. In the state capital’s once-thriving shopping district, what were once busy and popular department stores were now cut-rate dollar stores catering to the city’s poor population. Many of the stores were closed or even boarded-up. Many of the [...]
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Tags: childhood, childhood memories, downtown Trenton, Fort Dix, Greenwood Avenue in Trenton, Maguire AFB, New Jersey, New Jersey state capital, Trenton, West State Street in Trenton
Manifesto
MANIFESTO It feels like you’re buried beneath the rubble of your own ground zero. It feels like you’ll never get out. It feels like if you breathe too deeply or even twitch a muscle, even blink, that the rubble may shift and crush you. You are aware of heroic rescue attempts. You appreciate the effort. [...]
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Tags: "Heart Like a Wheel", "Little Trip to Heaven", "Not Dark Yet", Dylan, Edward Hopper, Loneliness, lost love, love, McGarrigles, New Jersey, sorrow, Waits
The bridge
Here’s something I wrote last week, inspired by a span in the Massachusetts Berkshires called the French King Bridge. Somehow a couple of glasses of cheap merlot told my mind and memory that it was called the King Philip Bridge…Anyway…the poem’s not good…it may be awful…but I want to post it anyway…it’s sort of a [...]
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Tags: Berkshires, French King Bridge, lost love, love, love poetry, Mohawk Trail, nature photos
