Jason Schwartzman
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The King of New York
From Astoria &Queens about Astoria, Neighborhood Life, QueensPublished on: 03/05/2017
Jason Schwartzman is a writer who has lived in three boroughs (so far). He edits for the adventure magazine True.Ink and the writing platform Claudius Speaks. One year he coached high school soccer and the team won the league championship and even the public bus driver flicked the lights on and off in salute.
Insects The following is a contemporary take on the medieval bestiary, featuring descriptions and characterizations of the actual and apocryphal creatures that share our constricted urban space. This second installment is devoted to insects. Stomped, smoked out, asphyxiated, and trampled underfoot, they elicit a degree of fear and disgust disproportionate to their size. Quietly going […]
Around two years ago, I’m walking down Broadway and once again I encounter Mickey Mouse. (Not the actual Mickey—he’s either passed on to the rodent afterlife or is living in a fancy retirement resort on a golf course in Nevada). This version of Mickey I’m talking about (which disappeared during Covid) was a very large […]
A little boy sits on the wood floor. In a small room with a rocking horse in the corner. A stuffed teddy bear is on his pillow. There is a small soft blanket, the one he holds at night, in a chair. The smell of the room is comforting. Twenty years later, standing in the […]
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