“But it's really about the Bensonhurst I knew growing up in the '60s and '70s. The Bensonhurst where the little old Italian ladies went out with their cart and shopped at seven stores along Bath Ave.”
“So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.”
“There's already some movie interest, and this is the first of a series of books. In the next book, Nicky Deuce brings the Brooklyn gang to his New Jersey hometown and sets it on its ear.”
“It's really sad because besides losing the money and having to find work again, you're also leaving the greatest working situation you're ever going to get.”