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Above: Former Mayor Bloomberg holds a copy of e Gargoyle Hunters at a reception he hosted in March at Bloomberg Philanthropies to celebrate the book's publication. e mayor posted on his Facebook page, "Congrats to John Freeman Gill on his book … a creative take on the dramatic carvings that adorn NYC's buildings." Right: e author with his wife, Julina (second from left), and their children, Cormac, Arden, and Declan. an Eeyorey friend at Jolly Chan's, makes a collect call from one pay phone to the other outside Taso's Pizza. He orders bacon cheeseburgers from the Jackson Hole, chews 50 pieces of Bazooka bubble gum in the Sweet Suite, checks out a cute girl at a theatre rehearsal in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. And in one climactic scene swiped straight from my own childhood, he engages in a high- stakes "slobber race" down the school's stone wall on 90th Street, just as Paul Minden and I used to do. Griffin is trouble, and I suppose I am, too. Looked at a certain Above: John at age 3, with his sisters Claudia and Tracy, who are dressed in their Day School uniforms. e street number behind them is 152 East 89th Street, where the family lived at the time and where e Gargoyole Hunters is set. way, in fact, e Gargoyle Hunters might just be my most recent entry, 37 years later, in Mr. Lindow's Punishment Book. Which is to say, I think this novel was always going to get written, whether I liked it or not. e morning I walked out onto Fifth Avenue with my Day School diploma in 1980, I had already been sentenced to a lifetime of writing sentences. n