Born in the Bronx and raised in Ridgefield, New Jersey, Marc Feinstein is a child of the 60's unbound with stories to tell.
Feinstein is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania where he received his Bachelor's in Economics. He went on to law school at the Mc George School of Law at University of the Pacific and then began long career in law as a Litigation Attorney and Mediator.
He spent over 30 years of his life in Orange County, California with his wife and two children and now retired resides in Maui with his wife.
He is an avid basketball enthusiast --from playing it, to coaching it, to the study of its history and evolution as a game.
Feinstein is having the time of his life writing and creating stories that connect and resonate with a broad audience and hopes to one day crossover his books to film.
He spent over 30 years of his life in Orange County, California with his wife and two children and now retired resides in Maui with his wife.
He is an avid basketball enthusiast --from playing it, to coaching it, to the study of its history and evolution as a game.
Feinstein is having the time of his life writing and creating stories that connect and resonate with a broad audience and hopes to one day crossover his books to film.
Favorite
reads?
Anything
by Richard Price, Philip Roth, Richard Ford and Pat Conroy—my go-to
guys. I recently discovered Ethan Canin’s America
America and
Mark Slouka’s Brewster
–both my
first reads of their work and proved once again that there’s no way
to keep up with all the great, albeit lesser-known, writers out
there.
Inspirations
for the book?
As
I say on my homepage, the 1960’s story set in a small North Jersey
town is taken from a corner of my heart. The music, the times, and a
hometown story that never leaves you all combined and aligned in a
way that helped frame what I would first write about.
Did
you know you wanted to be an author when you were growing up?
No.
I recall appearances of my inner story-teller first rearing his head
during my freshman year of college, but I did not then take him too
seriously. He didn’t completely go away and had a way of reminding
me for years that he was still hiding out.
Any
Pet Peeves?
I
moved to Maui as a way to escape them (peeves, not people).
Chocolate
or Peanut Butter?
Banana.
Not to be cute (I don’t like either chocolate or peanut butter),
but my answer reminds me of a scene from Barry Levinson’s great
movie, Diner,
where the boys are sitting around a diner, circa 1959, talking about
which pop crooner they’d rather make out to—Mathis or Sinatra?
One of them—Mickey Rourke’s character—smugly answers,
“Presley.”
The
weirdest thing you've ever done?
Give
up a lucrative legal career to write a freakin’ story.
Is
there a soundtrack to the book/Favorite music?
The
book is a soundtrack to the Sixties. The
rock and roll music of the 1960’s, starting for me in 1965
(beginning the surge of the most prolific five years of music in rock
history) bring you back in touch with a semblance of what it felt
like when the memory was born. I am sure it had a lot to do with the
period I chose to write about.
If you don’t
believe me, take a look at the Acknowledgements page—DC5’s “Catch
Us If You Can”, Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man”, Beatles’ “All
You Need is Love”, and CSNY’s “Woodstock”; or better yet,
read the whole book and see.
Do
you need anything to write?
Bananas
(this time intending to be cute).
How
long do you write on any average day?
Depends
on how you define “write”. To me, writing is a lot more than
sitting at the keyboard tapping away. If you add up all that goes
into “writing”—the thinking, the dreaming, the plotting, the
research and other preparation, the digressions, the revisions to
what’s already written before moving on—and you’re being
diligent about it, it easily takes up an 8-hour day (though for me,
in 2 or 3 shifts throughout the day and night).
Give
us the number one reason to read your book.
If
movies like A
Bronx Tale and
Diner,
or books like The
Wanderers and
Sleepers (also
made into movies),
or a
television show like The
Wonder Years
resonated with you.
Author Info:
Visit
him on his website at www.marcfeinstein.com
Like
him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MarcFeinsteinAuthor
Follow
him on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/goodreadscommarcfeinstein
Buy
the Book on Amazon
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A
small town, a family, a tragedy and the saving power of Rock &
Roll…
It
is 1967. Gene Gennaro is sailing through his freshman year in
Oldbrook, blown along by the steady prevailing innocent winds of the
time—sports, girls and Rock & Roll. On the Ides of March, a
tragedy thrusts him into a new world forever rocked by that fateful
day.
The
next three frenetic years of high school are a lifeline for Gene as
unbreakable as the fidelity of his friendships with five basketball
teammates; most of all Reuben, his best friend since before
kindergarten, whose lifeline at times turns into the rope for a
tug-of-war between fate and will, testing their classically loyal
friendship.
CATCH
US IF YOU CAN is
a coming-of-age tale of small town but urban youth growing up in the
late 1960's trying to untangle the answer to life’s tragedies as
well as answer Bruce Springsteen’s haunting question: Is
a dream a lie if it don’t come true or is it something worse?
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