Two Years in New York: Before, During and After Covid is the "fictional memoir" of a young man-Michael Mohr-from California (an ambitious writer in his mid-thirties) who, after a breakup, flees the Bay Area for Manhattan to chase the elusive authorial ghost, as it were, of Kerouac, Updike, Mailer, Sontag, Didion and all the other famous 20th century writers who lived in Manhattan, the mecca of the writers' world. In 2019 he makes the move. But what he cannot foresee-what no one ca...

All freshman year Jack Donnigan wanted to ditch the nerds and become cool. When Jack—a protected 16-year-old sophomore at St. Andy's Prep in Southern California in 2000—gets accepted into The Crew, a renegade punk clique on campus led by the nefarious and intelligent Cannonball ("Cannon"), he is thrilled. But he soon challenges Cannon's leadership by starting a secret relationship with Sarah—a punk-feminist who Cannonball mysteriously says is off-limits—trying hard drugs, and jumping on st...

All freshman year Jack Donnigan wanted to ditch the nerds and become cool. When Jack—a protected 16-year-old sophomore at St. Andy's Prep in Southern California in 2000—gets accepted into The Crew, a renegade punk clique on campus led by the nefarious and intelligent Cannonball ("Cannon"), he is thrilled. But he soon challenges Cannon's leadership by starting a secret relationship with Sarah—a punk-feminist who Cannonball mysteriously says is off-limits—trying hard drugs, and jumping on st...

All freshman year Jack Donnigan wanted to ditch the nerds and become cool. When Jack—a protected 16-year-old sophomore at St. Andy’s Prep in Southern California in 2000—gets accepted into The Crew, a renegade punk clique on campus led by the nefarious and intelligent Cannonball (“Cannon”), he is thrilled. But he soon challenges Cannon’s leadership by starting a secret relationship with Sarah—a punk-feminist who Cannonball mysteriously says is off-limits—trying hard drugs, and jumping on st...