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Anthony Buccino
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RAMBLING ROUND Inside and Outside at the Same Time (Life and Growing Up in North Jersey) By Anthony Buccino
RAMBLING ROUND
Buccino's essays are the best-kept secret record about life and growing up
in ... North Jersey in the 50s, 60s, 70s and later. Anchored in New Jersey, Anthony Buccino pays tribute to the unique Garden State Parkway toll road, but you don't have to be from New Jersey to enjoy this collection. In fact, by now the rest of the country should be ready for Buccino and RAMBLING ROUND Inside and Outside at the Same Time. This collection represents the best of Buccino's humor and homage to living life every day with tongue firmly in cheek while hoping for something funny to happen. On the occasion that he writes seriously, they are bound to give you a nice warm feeling. Buccino's essays are written from the heart and the hearth about family and surroundings. In the 1950s there's Strangers in Old Photos. In the 1960s there were those Boy Scouts days spent camping at Wildcat Lake - It's Catfish Pond Now. In the 1970s revisit those Saturday afternoons football games selling Pretzels! In the 1980s head to Las Vegas for Pushing Ginger. In the late 1990s stop in for lunch in Rambling Round Harborside. In the 2000s ride the Hudson Bergen Light Rail and the last ride on the Newark City Subway in Underground. Not only are these tales are all over the block, but they take you along for the ride, too. Re-live the wonder of the strange midnight calls from Korea, the Happy Dog Dance, a Magical Top Drawer, those Air Raid Drill Memories and living in the town that brought the world Martha Stewart. If you've ever wondered about picking up a bowling ball with a vacuum cleaner, then this collection is right up your alley!
Covers vary by edition CALL ME MR. MEMORY SUMMER PEACHES SLEEPING OVER ANTNEE’S SHOE STORE MAGICAL TOP DRAWER DO WE EVER STOP MISSING OUR FOLKS? IT’S CATFISH POND NOW SUN TAN LAKE AIR RAID DRILL MEMORIES A TEST, PEGGY SUE? PETER PAN REVISITED, AGAIN REUNION TREPIDATION WHY WE CRY AT WEDDINGS GREAT-GRAMPS WAS A ‘PUMKING’ NOT WHERE YOU FISH MAROONED BOOMER PARALLEL PARKING NO SATURDAYS OFF AND SO WE TRUST HOUSE CHALLENGED $110 LIGHT BULBS MARTHA DOESN’T LIVE HERE, ANYMORE BOB HARRIS FAN CLUB LAWN LABORS LIGHTENER ROARING PEACE YO, DONALD DUCK, HIT THE HAY!’ MIDNIGHT FAX IF YOU ARE MEANT TO DROWN GRAM’S HEADACHE CURE PUSHING GINGER ROGERS AND SUCH WHAT AREA CODE? RANDOM CHANNELS CANNED SOUP IN A JAR VACUUM BOWLING TIMING IS EVERYTHING HAPPY DOG DANCE BLACKBIRD LAB COMPETITION HEATS UP DOGGIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOWLING HOUNDS NEW JERSEY ROAD ICON Parkway Tokens Pave Path To Hell PIKERS RAMBLING ROUND HARBORDSIDE, JERSEY CITY LIGHT RAIL, JERSEY CITY UNDERGROUND, NEWARK CITY SUBWAY WRITING THE BOOK IS THE EASY PART JERSEY KID EDITOR IMPRISONED Order varies by edition |
Where My Work Has Appeared
The Wall St Journal
Dow Jones Newswires NJ.Com - NJ Voices Patch.com Baristanet.com The Nutley Sun The Belleville Times The Independent Press of Bloomfield The Glen Ridge Paper The Nutley Journal The Belleville Post New Jersey Monthly Essex Journal Modern Food Service Magazine
Paterson Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Rattlesnake Review, Medusa's Kitchen, Voices In Italian Americana, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, CHEST, The Idiom, Fox Chase Review, Up & Under, Caduceus, South Mountain Poets Anthology, MEWS, LIPS, More Sweet Lemons, The Poem Factory, On The Quiet Side, PowWow Review and other places, too! *********
Life & Growing Up A famous writing magazine's contest judge said: "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." "... Advice to author: while you are rightly likened to a number of other writers, be sure to stay Anthony Buccino. There are no duplicates." A famous writing magazine's contest judge said this book's cover should say: ''New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor' '' ''Buccino takes us where we've all been, in these charming, very readable, accessible essays. It's quite pleasant revisiting the innocence that he creates or remembers in these often wry and witty observations about life. The writing is very good, even, and flows nicely, to make one want to read more.... The author could even be played up a bit on the cover, such as ''New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor' '' or something to that effect. ... There should be definite regional interest in this book. But Buccino writes well enough to draw a national audience as well ...'' ''... Buccino's style is a cross between Garrison Keillor and Dave Barry, his stories full of heartfelt observations that inevitably have an edge of humor. ..." -- Al Sullivan in The Secaucus Reporter |
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About Me I've been a writer and editor since 1984, having worked at a national and state trade association, a regional trade newspaper, community newspapers and a national business newswire. I've published three books of essays based in and around life and growing up in New Jersey over the past 50 years. You can find me on Facebook and Linkedin Copyright © 1995-2011 By Anthony Buccino. All
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