{"product_id":"9781463406523","title":"Holding onto Nothing","description":"HOLDING ONTO NOTHING is Gordon Bishop's first book, begun when he was 19 at the Iroquois Hotel in Manhattan and completed when he was 20 and working as a copywriter for a catalog house in Passaic, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1959, Mr. Bishop walked into THE HERALD-NEWS, Passaic, and got a job as a reporter. Soon after, he was writing his own general-interest column and winning awards: The New Jersey Press Association's Award for \"Best Column\" in 1965 and the NJPA's Award for \"Best Reporting Against Deadlilne\" in 1966.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Mr. Bishop, as a student, became a good friend of his teacher, Paterson Poet Louis Ginsberg, father of the famous avant-garde poet Allen Ginsberg. As a result of their decade-long friendship, Mr. Bishop wrote two books on the Ginsbergs, the first a collection of essays (with pictures) entitled THE FIVE WORLDS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, and a biography, THE GINSBERGS: A FAMILY OF POETS, both of which are scheduled for publication later this year.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mr. Bishop also co-authored a three-act play, THE PURPLE CANARY, dealing with corruption in public school systems and which was presented at the off-Broadway Midway Theater in Manhattan in 1963.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155702235376,"sku":"9781463406523","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781463406523_p0.jpg?v=1763681574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781463406523","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}