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Writing about Old New York

April 22, 2015 Alan Hruska 0

Writing about Old New York I was a young lawyer in the 1960s. Imagining another lawyer for my book, Pardon the Ravens, wasn’t that hard. The lure, though, was reentering an era that was richly atmospheric and […]

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