Brothers Positano

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Welcome to Brothers Positano, where literary dreams take flight. Dive into our world of captivating narratives and expert writing. We know many types of writing-memoirs, scripts, science fiction, historical fiction. We have used our life experiences growing up in Brooklyn, NYC to enrich our writing.

We're the writers John and Rock Positano, and we write based on universal themes...love, struggle and triumph.

We're two brothers, and we have earned the success we have had. We came from the working class, and saw success as well as failure.

 

John Positano, Esq., has written a great deal about the military, law, and surfing, for the NY Daily News,  the Long Island Pulse, and  the Huffington Post. His law practice deals with federal matters. John won many awards for journalism, including the George Polk Award and others. He also headed public relations for fourteen years at a well-respected college prep high school in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Dr. Rock Positano is one of the directors of the Non-Surgical Foot and Ankle Service and the Joe DiMaggio Heel Pain Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC. Known the world over as a medical pioneer in dealing with non-surgical treatment  of foot and ankle problems, Rock graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and is on the staff of many prestigious hospitals.

So far, we've published two books, Dinner with Dimaggio and Street Smart. Soon to be published is the historical fiction, Jews of Positano.

 

Joe Dimaggio was a friend of Rock's, someone who relied on his street smarts just as much as we did to have success.

And the many people whose memoirs giving wisdom about how to be street smart , written about in the book Street Smart,   have been friends of theirs.

These memoir writers who contributed to our book of Street Smart came from various fields, such as business, journalism, and the arts.

 

 

Our first book, Dinner with Dimaggio, appeals to the baseball fan, the lover of classic romances like Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio had, those who appreciate stand up guys and stories of icons like Joe Di. So many people can relate to that silent icon.

Joe Dimaggio, who was a NY Yankee ballplayer that was a first generation American, was popular beyond the years of his playing for the team. Joe was known and loved by people of all ages.

 

Within Dinner with Dimaggio can be found a treasure trove of previously unknown peeks into the lives of celebrities, such as the famous Rat Pack, who once were friendly with Joe.

Specifically, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, who were friendly with JFK.

 

Within Dinner with Dimaggio you will also find how Joe Dimaggio was an obsessed fan of Ernest Hemingway's depiction of him in his novel, Old Man and the Sea. "The Old Man thinks, 'I must have confidence and must be worthy of the great Dimaggio, who does all things perfectly even with the pain   of the bone spur in his heel.'

 

It turned out that bone spur was what led Joe to getting to know and be healed by Dr Rock, decades after playing baseball with the Yankees.

 

Joe Dimaggio and John and Rock had a lot in common...big extended families and family members having each other's backs, a "shared working-class Italian heritage and street values".

 

Joe Dimaggio had a certain sex appeal; he dated the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Vargas.

 

Our second book, Street Smart, gives a glimpse into the lives of successful people of a variety of fields. Most importantly, these successful people explain how you too can be successful.

Street smarts do not just involve being safe on the streets. Being street smart means succeeding in the midst of other challenges.

"Street Smart is itself derived, we believe, from ESP....extrasensory perception...a staple of American folklore...a perception of facts and thoughts not actually derived from the usual senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch."

Street Smart is a book featuring parapsychology and ESP; John Positano at Long Island University's Brooklyn, NY campus "participated in an early 1970s version of Star Gate, as reported in the NY Times from November 25, 1973. The concept explored  and proved statistically is called remote viewing: reading a person's mind from another, sealed, isolated room in the building...With a major grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Maimonides Medical Center of Parapsychology and Paraphysics conducted ....experiments. Maimonides is a major hospital in Brooklyn. The NIMH is another player, not given to frivolous causes. It was, and is, notoriously tightfisted in giving away money. Its spokesman told the Times:

"The evidence of ESP, not only from our work but from a dozen other experiments, establishes beyond any reasonable doubt that it occurs. It is important that research on ESP now shifts from attempts to demonstrate that something unusual is happening-which has been the argument over the last 90 years-to what kind of situations and individuals are necessary for it to be obtained."

"The NY Times, in an issue dated January 10, 1984, traced military applications of ESP from an order from President Jimmy Carter in 1977 to the Central Intelligence Agency to close a perceived 'ESP gap' between the  United States and the then-Soviet Union. The CIA supposedly responded with several projects to close the 'gap'...Project Star Gate with a dozen or so ESP-talented individuals in intelligence gathering."

In popular culture, ESP was fictionalized in the 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring Jeff Bridges and George Clooney. The movie accurately, if in a tongue-in-cheek way, depicts a remote reading program undertaken by the United States military in the aftermath of 9/11. The military used Street Smarts to track down terror cells. This involved actual combat in Street Smart tactics during the invasion and pacification of Iraq....The unofficial word is that the programs still exist, though not advertised in military literature. Similarly, both the Russian government and the Chinese government have unpublicized Street Smart programs."

 

A person we have known since childhood, Maria Bartiromo, before she was the accomplished journalist she is now, was someone we'd babysit. She contributed a memoir to Street Smart. " I seized on Street Smart constantly while working on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange, where I traded for twenty years...I had to read 'poker faces'. I had to assess the situation with my instincts and sharp elbows. I had to push back on a man's world of 'suits' who thought they were smarter than me. They weren't. I had Street Smart."

 

As Bonnie Fuller, the celebrity powerhouse behind Hollywoodlife.com said in her Street Smart memoir:
"You will have to persist for years, persist against lots of critics and naysayers, all without losing hope or faith in yourself. To me, these are qualities that are more important than the ability to 'spot, seize and exploit luck or lucky breaks."

 

And famed medical expert Dr Anthony Fauci had this to say in his Street Smart memoir: "I learned early on that being Street Smart meant more than being able to take care of yourself...It meant knowing how to get along with a wide range of personalities."

 

Interestingly, the Democrat governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, is quoted in Street Smart as saying:
"One of my...political heroes, [the Republican president] Theodore Roosevelt [said]:
'Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.'

 

 

 

 

 

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