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CBGB WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL: A Rose Comes of Age on the Razor's Edge -- a gem of a literary delight -- is available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com (ISBN 978-0-9833711-1-3).

With heartfelt gratitude, thank you, fantabulous Joe Berger and super-duper Suzanne DeChillo for the terrific mention, article, and photo in the January 21, 2012, issue of The New York Times, "Preservation Push in Bohemian Home..."

Thanks to The New York Times for Slide Show: "Week in Pictures for Jan. 27, 2012."

Thanks to Harvard, Princeton University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, New York University, The New School, Fashion Institute of Technology, Fordham University, Loyola University New Orleans, Cornell University... for accepting my little book into their great big libraries and coming soon to the British Library in London, England, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library.

Stay tuned for the upcoming events at the Princeton Library and Montclair Library, March 2012.

Deepest gratitude to Gilbert Magazine and the American G.K. Chesterton Society for reviewing CBGB WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL in the Fifth Annual Summertime Film Festival issue. Thank you, Mr. Ahlquist, for recommending CBGB WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL in the "Best Books I Read in 2011" Ignatius Insight . www.ignatiusinsight.com

Full Court Press presents Tuesday Evening Readings: GK Stritch at the Englewood Library. Thank you, Barry Sheinkopf.

CBGB Was My High School is now sold at The Fine Grind Coffee Bar, 101 Newark-Pompton Tpk, Little Falls, NJ, 07424. Many thanks to all.

CBGBWMHS is available or can be ordered through the following independent bookstores:

The St. Mark's Bookshop, 31 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10003

Marc Jacobs Bookmarc shops on Bleecker Street in New York City and Melrose Place in Los Angeles

McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY, 10012

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The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018

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The Golden Note Book, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY, 12498

The Montclair Book Center, 221 Glenridge Avenue, Montclair, NJ, 07042

Barrett Bookstore, 314 Heights Road, Darien, CT, 06820

Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, 44 Main Street, Vineyard Haven, MA, 02568

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Dear readers, thank you for your interest and best wishes to all the fine writers and friends I've met on authonomy. Please feel free to leave five-star comments on my amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com page.

Thank you, McSorley’s Pub, 15 East 7th Street, the oldest ale house in New York City, for allowing me to read to you.

Jacob at Bemelmans at The Carlyle, thank you.

Many thanks to the Fourth Biennial Conference of the William Carlos Williams Society for allowing me to read.

Garzie, Paolo and Andrea for accepting “Days of Wine and Roses: Cinema Paradiso Revisited” and the two travel articles for your magnifico lifeinitaly.com.

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Thanks to HarperCollins UK for this site.

The entire 66,000-word manuscript was presented in nine parts:
1. Failed High School
2. New Beginnings, New York Dolls, Heartbreakers, Europe, Take Me to CBGB
3. Public Transport, Andy Warhol, Blondie, Patti
4. Love New York
5. Marc and the Ramones and a Peek at Burroughs
6. From Cher to Jackie O and Mario
7. The Beatles Influence and a Big Change
8. Reflections on East 5th Street and Ode to Ginsberg
9. Professors, Troubled in California, Back to School

The original cover photo was taken in 1978 of Joey Ramone and me outside CBGB in New York City by my little sister, Jill.

As of October 26, 2010, I’ve had the pleasure of providing more than 750 comments and gratefully have received 225 in return. “It’s a hard world to get a break in…” Be kind, be generous, and take the high road.

For all you Ramones fans, I’ll keep the unrevised Chapter 5 posted.

gnstritch@gmail.com
February 7, 2012

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