My new project is a departure of sorts, something to work at leisurely for many months, perhaps several years. The theme is partnership, two men on the wrong side of the law, set in the early 1970s before we had cellphones, before disco, long before anything was fashionable or forbidden or Politically Correct.
Men read daily newspapers and there were two of them, the library had microfilm, and people used payphones in drug stores and coffee shops, at busy intersections, at bus stops. Most still had rotary dials. There was no video, nothing digital, only three TV stations. All three signed off at midnight, a million viewers, respectable citizens, moms and dads and kids all sound asleep.
The Ham and Egger on Water Street was open all night.
