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Returning from Arizona, Boloker offers a series of unique observations about his native city. Penetrating, acute, humorous and critical perceptions of the New York life style. An entertaining taste of the people and places that make it a distinct and tasty metropolis. From knishes to crepes, it is a delicious read.

Benjamin 'Big' Traub, young Korean War veteran, takes a job as driver at Camp Harmony expecting to spend a summer of fun and light work. Instead he encounters trouble and has conflicts with several staff members involving their cruelty, abuse of campers, bigotry and pedophilia. Despite these problems, he becomes romantically involved with the camp doctor, Lani Welch, helps a youngster, Mickey Davis, cope with the recent death of his father, an...

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In 1888, at the behest of his dying mother, Jacob Rocker, a young Jew, sets off on a journey from New York City to California. He endures the hardships of shipboard life passing through New Orleans and Galveston. He learns about the frontier as a freight hauler traveling through a chain of Texas army posts from San Antonio to El Paso. His journey through wilderness, the notorious Jornada del Muerto desert and the New Mexico mountains, involves...

Brooklyn Yesterday" a new novella by Michael Boloker is another work by the multi-talented author who has published 7 books including novels about child abuse, college basketball, New Mexico history and a Kerouac-like journey to Mexico in the 1950's. He has also published humorous collections of observations of life in Scottsdale, Arizona and New York City. This short work is a nuanced portrait of 5 year old Mitchell Looker's coming of age in ...

In the summer of 1958, 18 year old Paul Israel takes a 3 month journey from New York to Mexico City to emulate his heroes from Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD. He passes through Washington D.C. and the deep South into Texas and Mexico. He meets a variety of amusing and provocative characters including baseball legend Jackie Robinson, civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and football player "Large" LeFay. He experiences racial segregation, sex, viole...

Bananaman is tired of exposed navels, breast implants, telemarketers, reality television shows, doctor's waiting rooms and ill-mannered, sloppily dressed generation x'ers and yuppies. He collects LP's, prefers manual typewriters, dials a rotary phone. His baseball hero is Mickey Mantle not Barry Bonds. He protested the Viet Nam War not Project Iraqi Freedom. He once wore his hair in an Afro and despises men with shaved heads and balding men wh...

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