MBR Bookwatch’s Review of One-Legged Mongoose

Midwest Book Review’s online book review magazine “MBR Bookwatch” featured a review of “One-Legged Mongoose”. Check out the review here, or read it below: Synopsis: It’s June 1953, and 10-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother’s car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his brother, Stephen,…

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From the Ashes: Podcast Interview

From the Ashes Podcast

From the Ashes Ep 56: One-Legged Mongoose with Marc Straus Poet, writer, medical oncologist, and art collector Marc Straus joins the show to talk about memoir – One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York. He’ll share some of his stories about the contemporary art scene in New York City. Through…

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