a city reader

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Saturday, May 23, 2026

PAUL MCCARTNEY LOOKS BACK IN SPLENDOR WITH A NEW SOLO MASTERPIECE The Boys of Dungeon Lane is a richly nostalgic trip that proves this leg...

Sunday, May 17, 2026

First real page of the book.

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Saturday, May 16, 2026

“ Ezra Klein, So Hot Right Now Thanks to his best-selling book and blockbuster podcast, the wunderkind liberal wonk of the Obama years has...

Thursday, May 14, 2026

JACK ANTONOFF BLASTS AI MUSIC CREATORS AS 'GODLESS WHORES' Bleachers frontman subscribes to “ancient ritual of writing, recording,...

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about me

Bill Gunlocke, a city reader: I’ve been a schoolteacher. Right after college in 1969, like a lot of guys, I taught school as an alternative to serving in Vietnam. I was married with a week-old daughter on graduation day. I taught grade school English in Cleveland, Ohio for six years. After that, I ran, eventually owned, a longstanding bookstore in downtown Cleveland. It felt something like Three Lives in the West Village. I went on to found an alternative weekly paper like the Voice, also in Cleveland. It lasted 12 years. Twenty-one years ago I moved here, armed with an idea and a prototype for a national book magazine. Like a Rolling Stone for books. I never raised the huge amount of money I needed. I then worked for a media company, editing a couple of neighborhood weeklies, more than once using my editor’s space to talk about city kids and reading. Between the editorial jobs, I taught English for a year here in Manhattan at a Catholic boys’ high school with mostly minority kids. I was terrible at discipline. But sometimes when we found a book or a story we liked, it all came together. gunlockeb@yahoo.com

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