Jesse Sposato is a freelance journalist, essayist, and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, she is working on a grief memoir and a collection of essays about coming of age in the suburbs. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine’s Bedford + Bowery, Refinery29, Broadly, KQED Pop, The Rumpus, Wilder Quarterly, Misadventures, Viz. Inter-Arts, Dame, Bullet, and Vice, among many others. Find her on Twitter or on the Web.
It’s been a year since Hoboken’s pivotal indie rock club and restaurant Maxwell’s has closed its doors, but it’s going to take much longer than that to wipe away its memory.