"Great storytelling! The author sees "the story inside the story" and communicates each one succinctly and effectively. His observations are a gift and so is his way of communicating them. I laughed. I cried. It made me email my 84-year-old mother. I could smell the leather of my father's shoes. THAT'S good writing."

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Links

NEW: Jersey Writers

Jersey Writers

Sun Sparks The Day: Poems of Sicily

Uncle Floyd Vivino

Writer's Digest

Jack Mount's list of books about NJ

Other books of interest

Boomers

Taylor Ham

PUBLISHING CONFIDENTIAL The Insider's Guide to What It REALLY Takes to Land a Nonfiction Book Deal - Paul B. Brown

Anthony's World of Books!

Bookmarks:

From the Archives
Classic Essays	Book Reviews
Ant's Links	Links

Long Ago Joyridges At Monk's Castle And Albino Village

It's Not Where You Fish, It's the Bait You Use

Summer Peaches & Tomato Gardens

Boy Scouts Built Traditional NJ Icon

Wildcat Lake Is Now Catfish Pond

Lawn Labors Lightened By More Power Musing

Real Reasons Men, Women Cry At Weddings

My cousins scared me out of sleeping over

Parallel parking in a parallel universe

'Boomer' marooned on endless cyber highway

Breaker one-nine, it’s time to surf the Web

Anthony's verse online:

Yountakah Waters

One Morning in Jersey City

Read two of Anthony's poems at Autumn Poets - The Poem Factory

Read one of Anthony's poems at Winter Poets - The Poem Factory

Notes from: Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival - 2006

Poets & Writers - Directory of Writers

"... Many of your poems are inventive and thoughtful, and some, if not all, are well-realized... Your voice is wise and captivating, but the craft, in places, has not quite caught up to your vision... "

"Thanks for the poems. We will not be using them for (our ezine), but do send them elsewhere. There's nothing about them that reek of works which will go unpublished. Best of luck."

A Writer's Life For Me

A Writer's Life For Me

A long, long time ago, I decided I wanted to be a writer. I was still in high school at the time. Writing looked like an easy life.

You type things. Someone pays you to publish what you wrote.

How tough can that be? (Continue reading)

Why We Do It, Why We Write

Superman: Coal & Diamonds

It Was A Dark & Stormy Knight

Just Another Day On Police Beat

Job Rock In Prose

Writing The Book Is The Easy Part

It Does Not Matter Where You Are When You Laugh

Reunion Trepidation - for the Class of 1972

A coincidence of place and time?

Miss Battleaxe - a memoir

Miss Battleaxe had a pointy face like a battle axe and a nose carved from a granite promontory. Her beady dark eyes pierced through books and walls and little boys pointless shields and left a cold iceness on every smartass kid....

From the archives:

Celebrating Floyd Vivino's entry in to the
New Jersey Hall of Fame:

The last of the old-style kiddie shows

1977

You Never Heard of "Uncle Floyd"? !!!!

The Uncle Floyd Show

"Uncle Floyd" Meets Mayor Kinder

Better than slicks - the Uncle Floyd Show

2007

Floyd & the Martini Party or:

Floyd Visits Nutley Pool Club in February

1976

Memories of Brookdale Soda

Brookdale Soda Blog

1975

Flick Lives - Remembering Jean Shepherd

Poet Ginsberg: 'Keep on Breathing'

CLASSICS

"We've always wondered if the old wives who said misery loves company ever spent time, endless smog-filled rush hours in line, attempting to pay a toll on the Garden State Parkway ...."

... Parkway Tokens Pave the Road to Hell

"It does not matter who you become, you will always be tied somehow to your growing-up roots. Even if your roots bring you humbly home to Nutley, New Jersey..."

... Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here - Anymore Currently offline

"We took cover in neat order in virtually any place that was away from the windows. We sneaked a look back and waited for the Russian’s A-bomb to come crashing through any one of the many windows in our school...."

... Air Raid Drill Memories From Under the Desk Currently offline

Note: Not all essays are available online all the time.

For links to active content, check out

Uncle Tonoose and Travels With Tonoose.

Is anyone complaining there's not enough to read here?

Italian American Heritage

Who is Brother, Uncle Bim?

At Spatola's Home for Funerals

Coal Miner's Kids' Christmas

Great Gramps Was a Pumpkin

Book Reviews written by Anthony Buccino

Bloomfield Avenue – A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey by Linda Mercadante