The high-flying pro wrestler has lived a wild life, but he’s not ready to quit. He’ll sign copies of his new autobiography at Barnes & Noble in Deptford on Saturday.
You remember Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka. And if you don’t? It’s not his fault. He’ll be 70 in May, but he hasn’t given up the one thing he loves more than anything else in this world, the one thing that made him a superstar: professional wrestling. “I have a hard time trying to stay away from the business,” he says in a rasp that instantly brings you back to the glory days of the early '80s, when he was on television, wild-eyed and ranting about exacting revenge on fellow wrestlers Don Muraco and “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. Snuka last wrestled about a month ago, at a benefit in Michigan. The days of performing his acrobatic signature move, the “Superfly Splash,” from the top rope, are long gone. Now, thanks to a bum ankle, he can only leap from the …
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Ellen Parry Lewis mixes a world of fantasy and realism for her young adult novels. The author will hold a book signing Saturday.
Walk into Ellen Parry Lewis’s house and chances are you’ll find her sitting on the sofa, staring at the wall. Don’t let the faraway look in her eyes fool you—Lewis is hard at work. When she has a new novel plot brewing, the young author doesn’t put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard.) Instead, she daydreams. “I’m a little weird in planning my writing,” Lewis admits. “I sit down and daydream the story from start to finish. This daydream can take months and I don’t move on from a specific theme until I’ve really explored it.” It’s how she came up with the plot for her debut novel, Future Vision—in fact, that daydream started in middle school before Lewis finally started writing the book in college. And it’s how she started her recently …
Jennifer Young
12:43 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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