Rob Hart is the author of six novels, the short story collection Take-Out, Scott Free with James Patterson, and a Star Wars short story. His latest book, The Warehouse, sold in more than 20 countries and was optioned for film by Ron Howard. His new novel, The Paradox Hotel, is due in February 2022.
[My Book, The Movie: Potter's Field; The Page 69 Test: Potter's Field; The Page 69 Test: The Warehouse; Writers Read: Rob Hart (January 2021)]
In 2015 at the Daily Beast, Hart tagged five great books about New York City that inspired him, including:
The Colossus of New York by Colson WhiteheadRead about the other entries on the list.
If [E.B.] White wrote a love letter [to New York City], then Whitehead wrote a mix tape. This collection of essays and vignettes, released in 2004, make up the blueprint for his personal metropolis. The portrait of this place drawn by his life and experience is unique to him but oh so familiar.
He also established, for my money, the yardstick against which your bona fides can be measured: “No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey’s or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge… You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.”
--Marshal Zeringue
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