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As Diana held the back of the seat, I hoisted my butt onto the unicycle and tottered up Broadway towards Needle Park. Pump, pump. Wobble, wobble. Diana would let go and run along beside me. Wobble, wobble. I would feel the narrow saddle slip between my thighs, then fly out behind me. I’d jump off quickly and try once more, [...]
There we were, recent college graduates stuffed with random knowledge and useless information, still hanging out, wasting our time. The economy of the mid-to-late 1970s hadn’t been kind to boomer college grads. The Vietnam war had ended in defeat. A president had resigned in disgrace. New York City was facing bankruptcy, its economy in tatters. The American Dream no longer [...]
St Marks Bookshop circa. 2008 Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Stories and Writers Revisited Editorial Introduction by Zoe Kalaw In the early 2000s, Greg Purcell wrote three pieces for Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. They were funny, self-aware, and sharply observant, attuned to the minor humiliations and quiet revelations of New York City life. Like many of the site’s contributions from that period, they [...]
