Right Here, Right Now: The Buffalo Anthology [Paperback]

Buffalo is a magical place to be and this anthology walks the reader through the decades. The newness of the city is electrifying and sits atop a glorious history of power, disappointment, artistic flair, racial injustice and spicy chicken wings—and Buffalo has the Niagara Falls in its backyard. Told through the eyes of more than 65 artists, writers, and residents, the essays will give readers a feel of the city, its good and bad sides, and why many people love calling Buffalo their home. The contributors include: Lauren Belfer, Wolf Blitzer, Marv Levy, John Lombardo, Mary Ramsey, Robby Takac, and many more.

“A vast, imaginative construction full of humor and heartache, genius and stupidity, grandeur and decay and renaissance. Church bells and meat raffles, the East Side and the Broadway Market, racism, the courage of immigrants old and new—they’re all here . . . In this epic and essential volume, as Jody K. Biehl writes in her beautiful introduction, 'Buffalo’s scrappy weirdness endures.'"  —Mick Cochrane, author,The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

"The Buffalo Anthologyis the stuff that dreams are made of, covering a broad range of Buffalo experiences, for good and ill. Not another exercise in blind boosterism, the collection fearlessly notes the dark side of an ethnically and racially divided town, of glory days fading as the tax base evaporates, of history ripped down for the paltriest of motives. Buffalo on the rise deserves this smart and well-written song to itself."  —Michael Healy, TV executive, movie writer, producer

"Right Here, Right Nowis absolutely one of the best books about Buffalo ever created—a genuinely essential book to be put on the same shelf as Lauren Belfer'sCity of Lightand Verklyn Klinkenborg'sThe Last Fine Timeand very few others. No literate Buffalo home should be without one."l"