The Writing Life, A Return to Brooklyn

 
Photograph by Jamie Dedes
I often use music to nurture the mood of a scene.  For the piece that follows, I used Cantor Rosenblatt’s My Yiddishe Mama of which Connie Francis did a pop Italian-American version.I find this particular song evocative of the conflicting pull of the old and new on immigrant peoples that I observed growing up [...]

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Second Excerpt From Novel in Progress

St. John’s Episcopal, The Church of the Generals, is cited in the my novel in progress, And So Goes the World. It is a real church located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  It has a rich historical as well as religious background.  I have put a link in the sidebar to the church’s website, which [...]

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