This is the site for Franklin Street Press, a publishing company founded by Michael Lydon to publish his own books on music, writing, and philosophy. Twenty books are in the Franklin St Press bookstore,, each with a lengthy excerpt to give interested readers a sense of each book.
Pamela Bob is a wonderful singer/actor who has performed and recorded numerous songs by Michael Lydon. ""I love how Pamela sings my stuff," says Lydon, "she gets right to the heart of every lyric."
Routledge has published RAY CHARLES: MAN & MUSIC, my big biography of the Genius; Routledge has also published my books, FLASHBACKS and SONGWRITING SUCCESS--type "Michael Lydon" in search and my books will come up.
Reed Robins is a composer and digital recording whiz with a studio near Union Square in NYC. I've recorded and edited music with Reed often. He does superb work.
St Marks Bookshop is the best independent bookstore in New York's East Village, great books, helpful staff, and customers who include the many writers, musicians, actors, thinkers, activists who make the neighborhood an exciting place to work and create.
An excellent bookstore right off Broadway in Soho. A super collection of books and the home of the EBM, a machine that makes books while you wait--very exciting for DIY writers and small publishers.