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I capture the castle!
Well, not really. It isn’t really a castle. I haven’t captured anything, except (I hope) your attention. And that phrase has just been on my mind because of several recent conversations about the classic book of that name by British author Dodie Smith. In any event, captured castle or not, I love this building — [...]
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Tags: "Rip van Winkle" parody, "Rip", Lowell, Mass., Pollard Memorial Library, Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving
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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Tags: "Rip", Catskills, literary parody, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, Washington Irving
At Kerouac’s grave
“He honored life…” But have the living given proper honor to Jack Kerouac, America’s one true spokesman, who plumbed the deepest depths of sorrow and climbed to the highest ledge of beauty and joy? His grave at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts, is marked with a simple slab with the above inscription, the names of [...]
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Tags: Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Kerouac's grave, Lowell MA., writers' graves
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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Tags: "Rip van Winkle" parody, "Rip", DiGiovanni, ebooks, electronic version of "Rip", Humor, Kindle edition of "Rip", Nicholas DiGiovanni, parody, satire, Washington Irving
Occupy Parnassus!
As I’ve tried to market and publicize my recently published novella “Rip,” a modern-day parody of Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” I’ve had to deal with this reality: It was published by an independent literary press, not by one of the mega-publishers, and that means bookstores and libraries and even some readers may look askance [...]
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Tags: "Rip", books, bookstore readings, bookstores liteary presses, independent publishers, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Rip Van Winkle
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
