So What HAppens Is…

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“One of the pleasures of bozic is the way his stories strain credibility but then check out”

— Nick Paumgarten, staff writer at The New Yorker



“He was a good fighter. There was no quit in him. he was all dog”

— Larry Holmes, former world heavyweight boxing champion

“in a city of 8 million, bozic stands a breed apart: boxer, bartender, and a serbian legend of soho who’s heard every tale in gotham. now at last he’s telling his own. Revel in it.”

— Andrew Miere, award-winning author and former Moscow correspondent for Time

A new York Legend’s Incredible, Unbelievable Fact-Checked Journey From Belgrade to Soho

The book follows Bozic through his early years in a foster home, his challenging preteen years with his mother, and his bouts of homelessness at fourteen and fifteen. His life takes a turn when a sympathetic bookie rescues him from the streets, leading to his years as a fighter and eventually his mid-twenties journey through Europe, culminating in a job driving a truck from Istanbul to Afghanistan with a convoy of smugglers…

Followed by quintessentially NYC anecdotes about managing a drag club in the early 1980s, and several almost unbelievable but verified stories - including a bank robbery gone comically awry.

Bob’s Bio

The book ‘So What Happens Is’ presents itself not as a traditional memoir, but as a collection of narratives akin to those Bob Bozic shared while tending bar at the famed Fanelli’s in SoHo. His stories, chronicled in esteemed publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as other outlets stretching from Toronto, Canada, to Belgrade, Serbia, offer a rich tapestry of his life.