Mark Coleman
@MarkColeman57
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Wordmonger, compulsive reader, music geek, chief cook/bottle washer, New Yorker by choice. https://markwrite57.wordpress. and https://t.co/wMMYvuxRr8
Manhattan, NY
Joined June 2013
Four images that reflect your WIP. Two key characters, setting/time, tone. No comments.
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No mention of Sonic Youth's "Catholic Block" but otherwise an original look at the Church of Rome's cultural influence during the 1980s. alternate title: The *Other* Religious Right via @nplusonemag.
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For at least a year, the mail room in Penguin’s New York headquarters utilized a bomb-sniffing dog—named, for some unknown reason, Yalta—to screen packages. On one especially unnerving Saturday the...
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Proud to announce The Prospector is in this week’s Memoir Monday roundup. Check out editor Sari Botton’s Memoirland Substack. It’s a treasure chest. The Prospector was my first friend and mentor in NYC; also the master urban scavenger
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Jeff was a garbage broker, a speculator in recyclables, a trash tout. He picked investments out of the flotsam and jetsam left in the…
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ugly beauty.
Halfway down; the half-demolished ruins of a decommissioned waste reclamation incinerator in Akron, Ohio.
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HB Andy Warhol who would’ve turned 97 today. Celebrate accordingly but don’t get too excited
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Andy and I stood near each other at a Manhattan night club several times during the Eighties. And how many thousands of people can say…
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"His main gig and true calling, his métier, was scavenging. Jeff was a garbage broker, a speculator in recyclables, a trash tout. He picked investments out of the flotsam and jetsam just left to rot in the city streets".
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Jeff was a garbage broker, a speculator in recyclables, a trash tout. He picked investments out of the flotsam and jetsam left in the…
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“Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people” - Marcel Proust Swann’s Way.
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definitive account of Jonestown
Best book you've ever read that's almost completely forgotten?.
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remember when Sammy Davis Jr hugged Richard Nixon.
New Trump-Epstein photo just dropped, this one featuring James Brown. (via NYT)
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I was never a metalhead but this review of the Ozzy/Randy Rhoads Tribute album was always one of my favorites. “You can’t kill rock & roll”.
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One of Dylan’s best, severely underrated.
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Ironically, Vivek is right-wing version of Zohran Mamdani: they’re both sons of wealthy immigrants, charismatic and inspiring speakers who (so far) are short on practical ideas pragmatic solutions. At least Mamdani has served in NY state legislature.
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Hey Vivek, fellow Cincinnati native (and St X grad) here, also longtime - longer than you’ve been alive - NYC resident, you have no idea what you’re talking about, skip the cheap shots and please stick to detailing your “vision” for Ohio.
I moved to NYC after I graduated college in 2007 because it was a place that still celebrated success, but that spirit receded in New York & soon could be gone altogether. We’re reviving that American Dream in a new place: Ohio. The revival starts next November.
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Come to think of it, there was a street incongruously called Plantation Way in my cookie-cutter Cincinnati suburb.
once you realize that the suburban house is the mass commodification of the plantation you won’t see america in the same way.
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Way different than when I lived on St Marks & 1st Ave 1985-89, not sure how to describe: more wholesome, almost a college town vibe? Not a bad thing btw.
Saturday Evening, 7pm.St Marks Place & 1st Ave.Life in New York City
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“shakin’ street/ it’s got that beat”.
Bought OTD in 1972: a foundational album for me, along with Teenage Head an exit from West Coast into sharp, angry fast rock. The whole thing is great butthe second side is astonishing: Shakin’ Street, Human Being Lawnmower. Special mention for Looking At You
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Madness loves the flat, pure telling, which the sane cannot abide. This was the power Plath had discovered – towering, revolving, in brass feathers and fire.”
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I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...
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