My second NYC apartment sat on the edge of a then-obscure Manhattan neighborhood known as the Meatpacking District Pressure to move kicked in a day after those heroic firefighters pulled me out of the flaming building. I needed to find a new home in NYC ASAP. My third-floor room was, more or less, as habitableContinue reading “So Far West It’s Nearly In New Jersey”
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“Every day, I have to redefine myself” Remembering Shiva Naipaul 1945-85
His books are long out of print, basically forgotten. And when they were current, his last name always overshadowed his first. But contemporary readers fortunate enough to spend time with Shiva Naipaul, the late younger brother of Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul, will find the former a true original, perhaps the great lost author of theContinue reading ““Every day, I have to redefine myself” Remembering Shiva Naipaul 1945-85″
Mark Coleman 