Posts Tagged ‘books’
Occupy Parnassus!
03Jan12
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
16Dec11
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
