Award-winning New York author RICHARD VETERE will be joined by actor VINCENT PASTORE (aka Big Pussy from The Sopranos) to celebrate the release of his thrilling new novel CHAMPAGNE AND COCAINE with a reading and signing at The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street, Tribeca, New York on Monday, May 23 at 6:30 pm.

The event will feature the author and Pastore reading from the new book and sharing stories about what inspired it. A book signing follows the reading.

The new release has already received rave pre-publicity praise. Author Robert H. Patton (Patriot Pirates and Cajun Waltz) raves, “Evocative and gritty as only New York can be, Richard Vetere’s Champagne and Cocaine is testimony that intelligent men spiraling through destructive choices can make for a hell of a read.” Edwin Torres (Carlito’s Way), observes, “Vetere’s page turning Champagne and Cocaine oozes vibrantly, written by an author who knew New York City at that time well enough to put his own stamp on its origins.” And famed actor Tony Danza summed it up succinctly: “I devoured it.”

Copies of CHAMPAGNE AND COCAINE will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street (at West Broadway) in Tribeca
Free Admission. Additional Information: info@threeroomspress.com

ABOUT RICHARD VETERE
Richard Vetere is the author of three novels: Champagne and Cocaine and The Writers Afterlife (both Three Rooms Press), and The Third Miracle (Simon & Schuster). He cowrote the screenplay adaptation of The Third Miracle for the film by the same name starring Ed Harris, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, directed by Agnieszka Holland and released by Sony Pictures. His plays include Caravaggio and the Pulitzer-nominated One Shot, One Kill. He lives in New York.