have done more for the Garden State, or rendered with such mixed feelings what they saw there. North Jersey also gives [August] Kleinzahler his other great subject: American masculinity, the qualities we attribute to tough guys and men. Kleinzahler's sole book of prose, "Cutty, One Rock," begins and ends in the Fort Lee of his youth, a gruff, if upscale, Mafia stronghold. "Boys are formed by the playgrounds they come from," he wrote there. "Ours was violent, noisy and profane."
from The New York Times: Witness for the Transit
also The New York Times: Excerpt: 'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City'
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