Saint mazie by jami attenberg5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() During that time she was written about by several news outlets, chief among them the New Yorker, for whom Joseph Mitchell wrote a profile in 1940. Mazie Phillips, the “Queen of the Bowery,” reigned from her throne-a ticket booth out front of the Venice-from the 1920s to the 1940s. We were going to walk around Mazie’s New York. ![]() This is just to say that Jami Attenberg’s summer is a busy one, and I felt lucky to have her for that hot, sticky Tuesday afternoon. (De Blasio had slashed the operational budget by 75 percent.) Then she was going to DC. Attenberg had gone to a book party in her celebration the night before and was, immediately following our interview, going to read at the Urban Libraries Unite 24-Hour Read-In at City Hall, where they were advocating for a restoration of funding to New York City’s libraries. New York Times best-selling novelist Jami Attenberg sent me a Google Maps pin to a Park Row police barricade that sat in front of the empty lot where Mazie Phillips’s movie theater-the Venice-used to be. ![]()
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