Gourmet magazine’s passing makes mourners of chefs, writers, readers Oct 14, 2009
Gourmet hired some well-known bylines, including writers Kiran Desai, Julia Glass, Junot Diaz, Sean Wilsey, Alexander McCall Smith, Bill McKibben, and Pete Hamill; and cookbook authors Marcella Hazan, Fuchsia Dunlop, Colman Andrews, and Bruce Aidells. Cond. (Boston Globe)
Craigs kick wins it for Dickinson football Sep 20, 2009
Sophomore quarterback John Harrison led the Diplomats to the Dickinson 10 yard line before senior Pete Hamill intercepted a pass to give the Devils the ball on their own seven. Mitchell broke for a 34-yard gain and Tim Smith added a 17-yard run to set up a Tim Wells touchdown dive for the only score of the third quarter. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Frank McCourt Jul 22, 2009
What a lesson, too, of the school teacher who enjoys a pint in the same saloons that the real writers do -- Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin and Norman Mailer among them -- and proceeds to hold his own, and then some. Any of them -- the writers, the hangers-on and all the rest -- could of course cite F. Scott Fitzgerald's endlessly rebuked observation that there are no second acts in American lives. (Albany Times Union)
Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, Dies Jul 20, 2009
" McCourt once said that as a child he dreamed of being a prison inmate in the United States, for the food and the warmth. Instead he became a hospital inmate: he caught typhoid at age 10 and spent three months well-fed in a well-heated hospital. The hospital also had a well-stocked library. It was there that he read his first lines of Shakespeare, and began a lifetime as a devoted reader. Malachy senior was a tender father at times, and a dazzling storyteller, but he was dominated by his... (Time.com)
Frank McCourt; storyteller hit gold in ‘Angela’s Ashes’ Jul 20, 2009
But at the Lion s Head in Greenwich Village, where he became friends with Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, he felt like an interloper, he said. They were writers. (Boston Globe)
Friends' Summer Reading Programto read first-time author Lisa Genova's book Jul 11, 2009
Other members of the committee are Linda Merriman, Barbara Vensel, Dona Rintelman and Jan Marino, all of whom participated in last year's program, which brought popular author Pete Hamill to town. The group read three books by Mr. Hamill, including "Snow in August, "A Drinking Life: A Memoir" and "North River. (Town Times, CT)
Bold color opens small area Jul 9, 2009
I am immersed these days in "Downtown: My Manhattan," a wonderful book by Pete Hamill that has me thinking about city living and the history of Manhattan. Hamill describes living "over New York" in 1958 in a third-floor apartment at 307 E. Ninth St. His rent was $54 a month for an apartment shared with two others. (AZCentral -- Home)
Writers trace the powerful ties to their brothers Jun 21, 2009
The band of brothers that look back and forth at each other in these pages are almost all highly accomplished scribblers such as Frank McCourt, Richard Ford, Tobias and Geoffrey Wolff, John Edgar Wideman, Pete Hamill. Given the connection between wordsmiths and wounds, it may be no mistake that most of these poignant stories spread out slowly like blood from a gash. (Boston Globe)
Adam Gopnik honored at 'Booked' event Jun 16, 2009
Previous award winners were Tom Brokaw, E.L. Doctorow, Calvin Trillin, Wendy Wasserstein, Arthur Mitchell, Pete Hamill, Martin Scorsese, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Oscar Hijuelos, and David Halberstam. Westport Minuteman 2009. (Westport Minuteman, CT)
Reviews of 'A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings,' 'All the News Unfit to Print ' May 17, 2009
The best of Liebling on both these subjects and a great many others is included in the Library of America's second big volume of his work: "A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings," edited by Pete Hamill ($40). Among its many treasures is a section on the press - though it certainly makes melancholy reading today, as much of it concerns the contraction in the number of daily newspapers across the United States. (Boston Globe)
* Not your average skid row drunk May 12, 2009
As the writer Pete Hamill said in his memoir, A Drinking Life, If I was able to function, to get the work done, there was no reason to worry about drinking. It was part of living, one of the rewards. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Two guys in the ring with Tyson May 11, 2009
In one moment, he could be trying to intimidate, a pure street thug, in another he could be telling the writer Pete Hamill about his newfound appreciation of Dostoyevsky. Toback argues that at this stage in his life, Tyson may have multiple personalities - the reason he uses split screens and overlapping voice tracks in the film - but that he is also essentially unable to lie, that in battling his multiple addictions (something Toback freely acknowledges the two of them share), he has reached... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
A New New York Mar 10, 2009
I'm not recommending Death Wish III except as an over-the-top study of what could have happened to America's citiesbut veteran journalist Pete Hamill notes in Downtown (Little Brown, 2004) that "by the 1970s menace was becoming more general." Here's his description of New York City: "Children of ten and eleven formed packs, attacking the shoppers from Macy's and Gimbel's like schools of piranha fish. The newspapers called them 'feral youths.'. . . Toward the end of the 1970s, every New... (Townhall.com)
