{"title":"Dito Montiel","description":"Dito Montiel wrote A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a memoir, and directed its film adaptation. His work and his band, Gutterboy, have been featured in cover stories in such magazines as In Fashion and Details. His articles, interviews, poetry, etc. have appeared in Vanity Fair, Interview, and numerous other magazines.","products":[{"product_id":"a-guide-to-recognizing-your-saints-paperback","title":"A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrlandito \"Dito\" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses--\"Kids from nowhere going nowhere.\" This is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him: Dito's father, Antonio \"our insane warrior hero,\" Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker, Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, Ginsberg and all the others, the drunks, coke-heads, junkies, the insaniacs like Santos Antonios who said, \"Now Dito remember, in life you gotta be crazy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433883959519,"sku":"9781560259602","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KFKBUdP2vu9781560259602.webp?v=1790020580"},{"product_id":"the-story-of-milk-paperback","title":"The Story of Milk - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathon White (\"Milk\") survives youth in 70s-era Queens to become a post-911 NYPD officer and father until secrets from his past threaten to destroy everything he holds dear. Equal parts metafiction, mystery and poetry, The Story of Milk is the story of street code and the fragile bonds of friendship. The Story of Milk inspired major motion picture The Son of No One, starring Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche and Al Pacino.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67847300612319,"sku":"9780982644539","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VYTuPKqU709780982644539.webp?v=1790855469"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/dito-montiel.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}