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BOOKS BY J.A. SCHWARTZMAN
WISEGUYS, RABBIS, AND THE FBI
How one man became the biggest loanshark in New York City, went to prison and escaped.
Wiseguys, Rabbis, and the FBI is the wild, true story of a New York financier who made millions in illegal loans to New York businesses – until he was arrested by then-US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in 1983. Indicted with him were seven Mafia captains and soldiers from the Gambino, Colombo, Genovese, and DeCavalcante organized crime families. Giuliani called Cooper the mastermind behind the Mafia's loansharking operations. But was it the Mafia behind Mel's loans, or a group of Long Island Rabbis? After receiving a 30-year prison sentence in one of the first RICO "Megatrials", Cooper was accidentally released, and escaped to Florida. Wiseguys, Rabbis, and the FBI captures freewheeling 1970s and '80s New York City, and the chaos that follows when ambition and flexible ethics meet.
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“Wiseguys, Rabbis and the FBI is a gripping period piece of NYC in the 1970s and '80s. The story is so captivating and expertly told, it feels like I’m watching a move. This is a must-read.”
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I, Grace Note
Go back to the 1990s, before the world was digital, and meet Grace Note, trying to make it as a songwriter.
This comic novel is a send-up the music business and life in the New York's downtown music scene. Songwriter Grace Note, and her avant-garde band, Swan Venom, are looking for a record deal, but meanwhile, they're stuck playing jazz brunches, dives, and weddings – until Grace Note sells a song to the biggest arena rock band in the world. Just when things are looking up, her song is transformed into an erotic anthem that leads to scandal. Grace Note's adventures as she negotiates the music business and its world of quirky characters, is like Spinal Tap for girls.
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"Ms. Schwartzman's prose is irresistibly smooth and delicious. Her brilliant and amusing novel sings and swings as she takes you on a door-to-door visit with the many dubious characters we singer-songwriters meet as we're busy clawing our way to the middle." - Ann Hampton Callaway (singer-songwriter, The Nanny)
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