My good friend Rob is publishing his first book -- a rollicking, hair-raising yarn about blood-splattered, trouser-ruffling debauchery. Actually, that's not entirely true. It's truly about the history of "slumming" in New York City and how it pertains to the changing cultural fabric of the metropolis in question. You can read more by clicking right here.

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