RAMBLING ROUND

About the Book

´´New Jersey´s ´Garrison Keillor´ or something to that effect...´´

Revisit New Jersey through the past six decades from the western mountains outside Blairstown to the Hudson River shoreline at Wall Street West, and, of course, northeastern Essex County.

A famous writing magazine´s contest judge said:

´´Buccino takes us where we´ve all been, in these charming, very readable, accessible essays. It´s quite pleasant revisiting the innocence that he creates or remembers in these often wry and witty observations about life. The writing is very good, even, and flows nicely, to make one want to read more.... The author could even be played up a bit on the cover, such as ´´New Jersey´s ´Garrison Keillor´ ´´ or something to that effect. ... There should be definite regional interest in this book. But Buccino writes well enough to draw a national audience as well ...´´

Readers from Ashtabula, Ohio, and other points outside the Garden State will identify with life’s everyday encounters captured here.

Buccino’s essays are written from the heart and the hearth.

About the Author

Anthony Buccino was raised in Belleville, NJ, and resides in Nutley with his wife, daughter and Labrador retriever. In the 1970s, Buccino wrote reviews and essays for area newspapers. He published two collections of essays: Sister Dressed Me Funny in 1996, and A FATHER'S PLACE, An Eclectic Collection in 1991; and a volume of poetry Days You Knew Me in 1976. He served as editor of The Belleville Times in 1990, and as managing editor of The Belleville Post in the mid-90s. The author has been published in New Jersey Monthly magazine, Herald News, Passaic, the New Jersey Federated Sportsmen, Bloomfield Life, ComUnico and Italian Tribune.