Vincent Zangrillo

Vincent (Vinny Chenz) Zangrillo was born in Ozone Park, Queens in 1955. As a child, from his bedroom, he could watch the backstretch at Aqueduct Race Track. He graduated from SUNY Albany with a degree in English Literature in 1977. Subsequently he did graduate work at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado studying under the tutelage of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Philip Whalen Vincent went on to receive Summa cum laud recognition after graduating from Alphabet City College in 1981.

S02E07 – Vincent Zangrillo

Vincent Zangrillo

Author Vincent Zangrillo in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Vincent Zangrillo back in his salad days Vincent (Vinnie) Zangrillo is the author of Dime Bag, a collection of short stories recounting his misadventures i...

Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle – Review

Vincent Zangrillo

Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle Harper Collins 2019 $27.99 Reviewed by Vincent Zangrillo TC Boyle’s new novel, Outside Looking In, explores the luminous world of Dr. Timothy Leary’s early years, while LSD w...

Review

Something’s Happening But You Don’t Know What It Is

Vincent Zangrillo

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Reviewed by Vincent Zangrillo I’ll tell you my own Bob Dylan story. Or maybe two or three. I can guarantee you that these are the god’s honest truth, ...

The Brothers Allman

Vincent Zangrillo

In 1969, Duane Allman founded the Allman Brothers, recruiting his brother, Gregg, on keyboards and vocals, a second guitarist, Dickie Betts, bassist Berry Oakley and a set of drummers, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johansen. In Ju...

Sticky Fingers the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine – review

Vincent Zangrillo

Sticky Fingers the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagen. Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95 hardcover (545 pages) The title tells the tale: first the rock cultural reference, then the editor, then ...

Tom Wolfe – Requiem for a Writer

Vincent Zangrillo

Tom Wolfe liked to match. When I saw him on the cross trainer at the gym in Southampton, pumping away, vigorously chewing a chiclet, his head bent over his Ichabod Crane frame, tall but exceedingly lank, his blonde bob part...

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, stories by Denis Johnson, reviewed

Vincent Zangrillo

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden [stories] Denis Johnson. Random House. $27 Denis Johnson’s latest, and unfortunately last, volume of short stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, published a quarter century after hi...

A Junkie’s Christmas

Vincent Zangrillo

Okay, you’re right. I am sitting by a pool in the sub-tropical Florida sun, not too far from West Palm Beach, and it is the middle of August, so hot that just lifting a drink makes you sweat. But this is, I assure you, a s...

Writing

The End of The World

Vincent Zangrillo

New York City—8/8/84—Day to Night Mark wanted to see how fast he could burn through the 10,000 dollar inheritance from Grandpa Dave, who sold schmatta to Hendrix on St Marks, and who despite his gnomic wisd...

Mink Stole

Vincent Zangrillo

Gregory loved Cookie Mueller. Cookie loved John Waters. John Waters loved Mink Stole. I was in a pub called Beggars Bush in Ubud, Bali, in 1989, when the guy sitting next to me told me Cookie died. I finished my beer ...

Chuck

Vincent Zangrillo

Gregory loved Peggy Biderman who lived at the Chelsea Hotel. Peggy, she was probably around 55, even older than Gregory (who was twice as old as me) but younger than I am now. I’m not sure of the relationship the two had i...