George Guida teaches writing and literature at New York City College of Technology. He is the author of ten books, including the novel Posts from Suburbia (Encircle Publications, 2022), and several poetry and essay collections. He also curates the Finger Lakes Arts Series in Dansville, New York. His new novel, The Uniform, was published by Guernica Editions in Spring 2024. It’s the mid-20th century story of Alfie Baliato, an aspiring musician whose family moves from a small town to New York City, following a fateful incident of racially motivated violence. Alfie’s romantic love for a cousin he meets in New York sends him on a decades-long odyssey across American and through struggles as a salesman, cop, family man, and artist in search of redemption.
In this episode, George talks with Jeffrey Heiman and Adam Berlin, editors of the nationally recognized, Pushcart Prize ranked J Journal: New Writing on Justice, a literary journal housed at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. George has been published three times in that publication, the first piece, “Rome,” (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2008) which previewed The Uniform, specifically Alfie’s experience as a cop at the 1968 Columbia University protests. They talk about Alfie, The Uniform and more, including some great craft questions. Jeffrey and Adam, English professors at John Jay and authors themselves, have visited Indoor Voices twice before (see episodes 38 and 50), and I look forward to more visits from them and more J Journal contributors in the future..
Check out reviews of The Uniform in Kirkus Reviews and The Brooklyn Rail.
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