Bowling Green, Part One: The Little Tourist Who Could
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From "Little Bytes of the Big Apple." Author and NYC guide, Robert Westfield, begins the trek up Broadway and runs into a munchkin of a tourist. New York City video tours.
The United Nations, Part Four ..
From "Little Bytes of the Big Apple." Author and NYC guide reaches the end of the Walk Across 46th Street with Elizabeth Rousie, PhD, who shares the history of the obscene elephant hidden in the corner at the U.N.TIMES SQUARE, PART ONE--BROADWAY WITH MARTA
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From "Little Bytes of the Big Apple." Robert Westfield promises Marta Sanders she can sing a song...BUT FIRST, a tour of the block.
About me:
I'm the author of the two-time award-winning SUSPENSION, a dark comedy that was released in 2006 by the good people at HARPER PERENNIAL. "What's it about?" Still hard to say...mainly because describing it too much spoils the read. CHARLIE HUSTON, author of Six Bad Things and Already Dead, called it a "book that's never where you expect it to be. I don't generally stay up past midnight reading books anymore. This had me up two nights running." JOSH KILMER-PURCELL (I Am Not Myself These Days) said it was a "comedically suspenseful page turner - with enough twists and turns and back stories to ensure that the book never leaves your hands until they're all resolved. Perfectly." MARTIN MORAN (The Tricky Part) called it "a wild ride of a book," PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY called it "a raucous debut," and KIRKUS called it a "head-spinning romp." DAILY CANDY and AOL BOOKS both picked the novel as one of their summer reads, the tough graders at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY gave it a B+, and one of my favorite writers in the world, MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, (The Hours and Specimen Days) gave me a seizure when he said this: "Just in case anyone was worried about where the new novelists were going to come from—the ones who’d be able to bring a fresh voice and vision to the world as it is right now—here’s Robert Westfield, with a beauty of a book that delves with almost frightening acuity into culture, sexual identity, and violence on both personal and global levels, among other vitally important matters. The fact that he is able to do so while creating fully human, comic and tragic characters, and to move them through a compelling story, is little short of a miracle." I just blacked out again.
All right, briefly, the novel is about someone who locks himself in his Hell's Kitchen apartment in August of 2001 and after September 11th decides to stay inside for the rest of his life. But it's best not to know why he retreats into his apartment, it's best not to know why, after seven months, he comes back outside, or what happens when he does. The book deals with the tragic (and also comic) fact that most of your life happens behind your back, decided by other people in other rooms, while you're acting on information that isn't at all, in any way true.
Another thing you should know about me is how much I love cities and that I have the deepest affection for New York, the one I've lived in for the last eighteen years. In fact, over the last decade, I've given tours of the city to 30,000 people from across the country and around the world. Last February, I launched LITTLE BYTES OF THE BIG APPLE, video tours of the city. In the first season we shot eighty videos, or bytes, and have posted over forty of them. The fifth movie begins posting this March, with a new byte every Monday. Blogs about the city are posted Monday-Friday.
For much more information on the book, on the author, on the tours, you can check out my website: LittleBytesOfTheBigApple.com
Have a Happy Wednesday Robert:) I am working on tons of stuff but when I get the chance I will send you that something that I think could be of interest for ya!! Thinkin' of ya!!
FairplayCollective is honored to play at this years Craicfest. March 14th at 8pm at The Mercury Lounge NYC. On the bill with us that night is Foy Vance, Duke Special and Colin Devlin. We ask all to arrive early for our show.
Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or at The Mercury Box office (Mon-Sat 12-7pm)
As you may or may not know, I turned twenty-five recently. Instead of gifts this year, I'm asking everyone to join my Email List on www. jjhebert. net. Unconventional, my newest novel, will be published by Mindstir Media later this year, and joining the Email List will ensure that you receive updates regarding my book release, contests, giveaways, and more.
Thanks for the add! I'm truly honored to have you as a new friend. I look forward to getting to know you and to our friendship. Please stay in touch! Happy New Year!!
Take Care & God Bless, Sharon† "Carolinas PI" and Proud Army Wife Bulldog Mom To Winston, Gracie & JJ Owner/Founder of BulldogCoNetwork.com
Hey Friends, Brendan O' Shea will be performing in and around The Lower Eastside for the month of December. We would love to see all of you out enjoying yourself and maybe even singing some songs.
The Living Room, Thursday, December 4th at 8pm The Mercury Lounge, Thursday, December 11 at 7.15 The Living Room, Saturday, December 20th at 8pm The Scratcher Sessions, Sunday 21st at 7.15
Hey Robert! I just wanted you to know that I was thinking of you and your family! I hope your Thanksgiving was filled with warmth, love and lots of yummy things! xo
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE TAG ALONG AND WELCOME TO LIFE IN WORDS. I LOVE POETRY BECAUSE POETRY IS LIFE AND THE BEAUTY ALL AROUND US IS POETRY. I ALWAYS RESPOND AND LOVE TO TALK POETRY....
Hope is the thing...
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
