(32) a Centennial Exposition…

It is evident that the man who lived a century ago knew very little, and missed lots of fun.
(38) He never heard of Standard Oil…

  ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE is the name of my new novel, which will be published in the summer of 2013 by Simon and Schuster. Astor Place Vintage is also the name of the Lower East Side vintage clothing store owned by Amanda Rosenbloom, one of the main characters in the novel. Amanda finds a journal from 1907 hidden inside of trunk of Edwardian clothes and goes back in time — in her imagination, that is — to follow the tumultuous year in...