Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza

In 2009, Colin Atrophy Hagendorf hit a low point. He hated his burrito delivery job, he was looking for a girlfriend and he was getting wasted pretty much every night. In his late 20s, with more than a decade of punk-rock life behind him, he was all too familiar with creative plans that didn't really pan out.

But the idea of eating a plain slice at every pizzeria in Manhattan nagged at him, so that August he began his quest at the northern end of Manhattan Island. For the next two years he methodically ate his way down the borough, blogging about each slice he ate. Along the way, he made new friends, fell in love and began his journey to sobriety.

Slice Harvester is a paean of praise for the simple slice--an ode to the brilliance that the crust-sauce-cheese trifecta can create when done right. Hagendorf has funny stories about the people he met, about pizzas that were inedible and about the slices so good that they could make a bad day better. Slice Harvester is also a peek into countercultural quirks, with stories of concerts, parties, zines and a host of entertaining characters who make up Hagendorf's adopted family.

Sure to appeal to lovers of pizza, punk rock and the Big Apple, Slice Harvester is a book to savor. It should come with a warning label though: Will Cause Intense Pizza Cravings. --Jessica Howard, blogger at Quirky Bookworm

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