BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I consider myself fortunate to have known Peter Walsh because to know Peter Walsh was to love Peter Walsh. That might sound like a tired and worn cliche but it is absolutely true. He was a real…
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Friend of the UC and talented novelist Jon Michaud penned an outstanding piece in The New Yorker on the closure of Uptown institution Coogan’s due to the covid-19 pandemic. The piece will quite literally break your heart. Coogan’s is such…
“If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention” – Heather Heyer Seriously folks, you NEED to be outraged by the ongoing disaster that is the Trump regime. With that said, the good folks at the Up Theater Company are…
By Jon Michaud My mother-in-law, Grecia Solano, immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, in the late nineteen-sixties. For the past forty years, she has lived in an apartment in Washington Heights, where she enjoys a view…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Please make your way to the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood (54 Nagle Ave) on Thursday, November 5th at 7 pm for the Uptown In Print panel featuring authors, A.J. Sidransky, Jon…
June 13, 2012 | 7-9pm | $10 | RSVP on Facebook PERSONAL DAYS, DESPERATE NIGHTS: A Reading with Ed Park, Jon Michaud, S. J. Rozan, and S. A. Solomon A reading with Ed Park, author of the multi-award-winning novel Personal Days and the…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Due to the fact that the UC has over 2 years of super awesome content, picking the Throwback Thursdays post is pretty difficult. Then it hit me, my good friend and author of When Tito…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The book that was described by its author as a love letter to Inwood and his wife has made Barnes & Noble’s 2011’s best reading list. Congrats are in order to friend to the UC…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The Led Black Book Club proudly presents Uptown Lit featuring Jon Michaud and Matthew Gallaway tonight at 7:30 pm at Word Up Books (4157 Broadway). This is a big deal; 2 celebrated authors discussing their…
Click here, here, here & here for the UC coverage of the inaugural Led Black Book Club event.…