Reggie Bolton

Reggie successfully launched the THS literary magazine, Bellwether, and was its managing editor until his graduation. He went to NYU for creative writing, knowing that New York, birthplace of the Beat Generation, was the place that would truly appreciate his literary talent. Since then, he has had a poem published in a magazine here and there, but has never seemed to hit it big as a writer.

Tired of paying his rent, Reggie's father Charles eventually pulled some strings within the entertainment business and managed to get Reggie a job writing copy for a celebrity gossip magazine -- which Reggie will never freely admit to. If anyone asks him what he does for a living, he tells them he is a poet. Which is mostly true! He does, after all, do the rounds at open mic nights at artsy dive bars in the East Village. Sure, he doesn't get paid for that, but that's the work that feeds his soul. The gossip magazine just feeds, you know, his actual body.

His boyish good looks and tortured artist persona have meant that he is always successful with the ladies. Well... mostly true! He's always successful at getting invited home after an open mic night, but then for some reason they never return his calls.

He has stayed friends with Tim, recognizing in him a kindred artist's soul. After Reggie's father got him the gossip magazine job, he was cut off financially, so he and Tim agreed to be roommates, neither of them being able to afford living alone, even in this subsidized building.

Quick Facts

 * Graduated NYU in 1992 as a creative writing major and has lived in the Village ever since
 * Was recognized in a literary magazine as one of 1994's "New and Notable Poets"
 * Frequents open-mic nights in the East Village, particularly at KGB Bar
 * Once slept with a woman in a giraffe costume
 * Still hasn't heard back from Aoibhe Byrne about that second date

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