A My Private Coney project Flash non-fiction, brief moments and old memories of a city and mother's emotional and physical real estate disappearing at the speed of heartbreak.
MY PRIVATE CONEY presents IT WAS HER NEW YORK, the short stories that accompany the work-in-progress video and photo collection of the same name (myprivateconey.com - media link - IT WAS HER NEW YORK). The stories and the media explore the tender rubble that holds both my mother, Florence's and New York's soul as one disappears into old age and the other into gentrification. All are real observations and/or experiences with very little tall-tale telling.
Except when it makes the story better.
Please visit myprivateconey.com for additional information and sample works.
The MBIPTGIF Happy Hour. - This Week: Johnny Vig’s
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*It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing: Happy Hour!*
*This week we’re spotlighting Johnny Vig’s in the Metro Centre, so let’s
get going and let’s...
In Celebration of Independent Bookstore Day
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Purveyors of knowledge, solace, companionship, humor, community, and much
more, bookstores enrich our lives and of neighborhoods in countless ways.
It’s ...
Happy Eclipse Day, and a few bird highlights
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Happy Eclipse Day for those in the path of totality. I will be out there
observing birds to see if and how they may react to the sudden darkness
during t...
Thanksgiving Letter to the Family
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Dear Family, Once again, we will gather for turkey and all the trimmings
this Thanksgiving. Trump remains a pain in my rump, but I have decided to
rise ab...
Feral City
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My new book, *Feral City*, hits the shelves October 4, 2022. You can pre-order
it today from your local bookshop and wherever books are sold. Thank you!
*...
Untitled Pandemic Series No. 5
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Things got dark. Painting No. 2 in Series of 6Approx. 7" x 8" Mixed media
on paper Available here. Painting No. 2 in Series of 6Approx. 7" x 8" Mixed
medi...
MURALS AND GRAFFITI - PART 1 -
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Murals by local artists, RIP Murals, Street Art, Graffiti, Vintage and New
Painted Ads, Giant Billboards: everything painted you could see in the
streets ...
Notes on ‘Swindler & Son 2’
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This book came to me as if in a dream, playing itself out in front of me,
bit by bit, each day at the keyboard. Not so much something I wanted to say
as ...