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Retracing my first steps and recalling a few stumbles Upon arriving in Manhattan, I checked in at The Chemists Club in Midtown. Basically a hostel for businessmen and scientists, The Chemists Club’s members included my father. When I left Cincinnati for New York in February 1981, with a headful of writerly dreams, he generously frontedContinue reading “Entry Level NYC 1981”