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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka. Wow.

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On the subway back from holding the sign this morning.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Newest ‘cityReader’. #71. More than a year since #70. A daughter had a stroke.

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Sunday, March 8, 2026

Last night on Union Square.

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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Toni Morrison on language, evil, and ‘the white gaze’

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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Annie Leibovitz shares moments behind photographing some of the world’s most influential women

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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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