Category Archives: Starbucks Saved My Life

Waiting For Good Joe

Posted on January 6, 2010 by TJ

I first saw the stack of suitcases just before Christmas. It was a Starbucks on my walk to Grand Central, Park Ave South and, oh, 39th, or so. Two large ’70s style suitcases and a smaller valise, stacked outside Starbucks, … Continue reading →

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The Trainjotting Book Review: ‘How Starbucks Saved My Life’

Posted on November 9, 2007 by TJ

How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill’s memoir about how he goes from being an Ivy League son of privilege, working a cushy job as an advertising exec, to being a lonely old man who commutes 90 minutes each way … Continue reading →

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The Trainjotting Book Review: ‘How Starbucks Saved My Life’

Posted on November 9, 2007 by TJ

How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill’s memoir about how he goes from being an Ivy League son of privilege, working a cushy job as an advertising exec, to being a lonely old man who commutes 90 minutes each way … Continue reading →

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I Thought My Commute Sucked Vol. IX

Posted on September 19, 2007 by TJ

From today’s WSJ, a review of the new memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life. Author Michael Gates Gill, son of longtime New Yorker staff writer/bon vivant Brendan Gill, has written about how his upper-crust upbringing and rapid ascent in the … Continue reading →

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