Title: Best Served Cold: Essays
Author: Roger Zotti
Publisher: XlibrisUS
ISBN: 9781524587703
Pages: 204
Genre: Literary Collections / Essays

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Synopsis

Roger Zotti’s latest collection of essays, Best Served Cold, is “mostly a true book with some stretchers,” as Mark Twain’s Huck Finn says about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In part one, Zotti focuses on sports, while in part two he’s concerned with books and movies. Agree or disagree with his views, it’s certain that Best Served Cold is an entertaining and informative mix of concise and inventive writings.

About the Author

When Roger Zotti was ten years old and living on Norton Street in New Haven, Connecticut, he found a portable Royal typewriter on his front porch. After making certain no neighbors were watching, he gingerly carried it to the second floor, where his family lived . . . Flash forward several months . . . After his one-finger pounding turned into writing, he created a feisty, bi-weekly, two-page newsletter called The White Whale News. Sports, movies, and imaginary happenings in Elm City were its specialties. A year’s subscription cost twenty-five cents, and soon, he had sixteen almost reputable subscribers. (Of course, without carbon paper there would have been no WWN, and to this day he thanks its inventor.)

He and his wife live in Preston, Connecticut, along with an interesting dog. In 1966 he graduated from Eastern Connecticut State College, and in 1971 received his master’s degree from Wesleyan University. He taught adult education at a Connecticut correctional center for thirty years, retiring in 1993, and is currently a regular contributor to the International Boxing Research Organization Journal and the Resident.

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