New Focus on the Site
As I work on my next book project, I’m going to be updating my site more often and including new blog posts. The Kensico Vaudeville Project is one of them, but there will be other writing projects and walking tour…
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The Kensico Vaudeville Project Launches
Project Updates and Biographies are posted here. Twenty-eight miles north of Forty-second Street is Kensico Cemetery. Interred there are hundreds—perhaps more than a thousand—stage performers and associates. These men and women were onstage in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries….
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Rare 1952 Radio Show From Algonquin Hotel Found
While researching my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I uncovered a lost 1952 radio show recorded inside the Algonquin Hotel, The Tex and Jinx Show. Among the guests are owner Ben Bodne, Broadway librettist Alan…
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TV Interview Tapes at Algonquin Hotel
I had the pleasure to be interviewed by reporter Andrew Whitman, the anchor and senior political correspondent for RNN FiOS1. We didn’t talk politics, just the legacy of the Algonquin Round Table. It was perfect to sit at the Round…
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Don’t Forget Jane Grant When Worshiping The New Yorker
Everyone is jumping up and down to celebrate (well, the nerds I follow), about The New Yorker turning 90 today. In every story Jane Grant gets left out. In my book and on my walking tour I say what her…
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Hell’s Kitchen Birthplace of The New Yorker, and Bathtub Gin Recipe
This is a book trailer for my new one, The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide. And since I made it about Jane Grant, Harold Ross, and Alexander Woollcott, I thought I’d post this recipe. It’s from my…
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DeWolf Hopper at The Lambs
This is DeWolf Hopper, dead actor, who made Casey at the Bat famous. I had a fantastic private tour of The Lambs, America’s 1st professional theater club, founded in 1874. The art, paintings, and nicknacks of old New York are…
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New York Times Review of The Algonquin Round Table New York
I was very happy to see Sam Roberts include my new book in his Bookshelf column in the Sunday New York Times. The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide shares space with The Ramones and Weegee, both are…
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Contributing to Cladrite Radio
I kicked in a blog post for my friends at Cladrite Radio about, guess what? Radio. The article is Radio Pioneers of the Algonquin Round Table (tied into my new book this month, The Algonquin Round Table New York: A…
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When Harold Ross Chastised Frank Sullivan
Letter from Harold Ross of The New Yorker to Frank Sullivan, both were Vicious Circle members. What I find ironic is now The New Yorker will use this language regularly. He also mentions John O’Hara. This is some of the…
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