61. Pete Hamill: The Man Who Loves A City In pete hamill’s days on the New York Post, and mine, under hardboiled executive editor Paul Sann and manic managing editor Al Davis, there was a topflight http://www.nyc-plus.com/nycp2/petehamil.html

PROFILE Pete Hamill: The Man Who Loves a City By JERRY TALLMER Hamill writes: There were too many journalists among us, trained to the codes of detachment, and too many who had donned the armor of irony. Timothy Leary, from Harvard, was urging the young to turn on, tune in, and drop out. In a different way, some of the older drinking class was doing the same thing. Many would think back on their choices later with a kind of regret. But Pete Hamill stayed alive. More yet, had pushed open the door to Chapter 2, Act II, Round 2 of his new life. What made you stop, Hamill was asked. Memory, memory. From Downtown: My Manhattan, page 136: Memory, memory. The movie camera of the mind. On the Saturday morning of July 28, 1945, an Army Air Force B-25, heading west through dense fog, smashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing all three men aboard the plane and 11 employees of the War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, working at their desks on that floor. Pete Hamill, born June 24, 1935, was 10 years old.

62. Great Interview With Fiction Writer Pete Hamill - Books Great interview with fiction writer pete hamill Books News. http://books.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1340524.php

Monsters and Critics Books Arts Books ... Talkback var addthis_pub = 'jwray'; Books News Great interview with fiction writer Pete Hamill Aug 8, 2007, 14:19 GMT His most recent novel is North River , but if you want to read an interview with the kind of guy you could sit at a bar and have a beer with, then this is the interview for you. With books like Snow in August, My Manhattan, Forever , and North River , these are just a few of the titles that Hamill has produced. A native New Yorker and journalist, Hamill talks about the importance of observation in storytelling, growing up, life observations, and more. Interviewed by Dan Schneider on Cosmoetica, Schneider also encourages readers to seek Hamill’s short stories, feeling that his skill as a short story writer has been overlooked in light of his novels. Click here to read the interview. Share with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook ... StumbleUpon Talkback There are currently no comments for this article. Be the first to comment! Allegations emerge in Mary Kate Olsen's involvement in Ledger death Zac Efron takes on new role: Budding leading man Princess Masako accused of 'slacking' ... Miley Cyrus breaks up with Nick Jonas Additional Headlines Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner Books Index News Features Original Writing ... Books Archive Reviews All Reviews Children's Comics Fiction ... Competitions Advertising North River: A Novel US Release: 2007-06-11 UK Release: Related Articles Book Review: North River Advertising In Monsters and Critics Arts Books DVD Forums ... Archives Other Languages

63. An Conversation With Pete Hamill –pete hamill, newspaperman and author of North River I first became aware of pete through Earl Wilson’s gossip column in the Daily News where he could http://www.paris-expat.com/interviews/5-07hamill.htm

SEARCH "If you believe that Paris is the most beautiful city in the world, if you care about its food, literature, movies, architecture, music and art, if you want to better understand the mysteries of the Parisian character, then PARIS THROUGH EXPATRIATE EYES is the place to go. Receive our FREE newsletter The Paris Insider PETE HAMILL'S PARIS A Conversation with Terrance Gelenter Only later as an adult did I begin to read his journalism and books, beginning with the poignant SNOW IN AUGUST and backtracking to his memoir, A DRINKING LIFE and continuing with WHY SINATRA MATTERS, the indispensable NEWS IS A VERB: JOURNALISM AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, FOREVER, DOWNTOWN. And just like Dr. James Delaney in his new novel NORTH RIVER his fame and access to the rich, beautiful, famous and powerful has not changed him-he remains a stand-up guy from Brooklyn. The following was begun on line while Pete was relaxing at his winter home in Cuernavaca, Mexico and completed via telephone from his Manhattan apartment while it snowed in March! TG. When did you first go to Paris?

64. Pete Hamill - Little, Brown Book Group hamill is a wellknown journalist and a popular novelist. His 1997 novel SNOW IN AUGUST appeared on bestseller lists (as well as the Booklist Editor s http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Authors/H/1462

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65. Jim Lowney Photo - Bog: Pete Hamill Remembers Eddie Adams Thankfully, while trying to catch up and go through the evergrowing pile of newsprint on the floor, I came across New York Newsman pete hamill writing http://www.jimlowney.com/mt-archives/000265.html

Main October 05, 2004 Pete Hamill Remembers Eddie Adams Thankfully, while trying to catch up and go through the ever-growing pile of newsprint on the floor, I came across New York Newsman Pete Hamill writing about his old friend photographer Eddie Adams . I would have been sad if I had missed it. Hamill also offers a few thoughts on war photography in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Eddie Adams was not an amateur. He made one of those defining photographs of Vietnam in 1968, for which he won a 1969 Pulitzer Prize. It showed the South Vietnamese police commander shooting a Vietcong prisoner in the head on the second day of the Tet offensive. The photograph made front pages all over the world, but you could never find a print of it on the walls of Eddie's various studios. There is no simple way to explain why such defining images have eluded today's professional war photographers. One explanation is simple: sheer luck. You must be there at the moment. If you're around the corner or stalled in traffic, or stopped by soldiers, the moment vanishes forever. A more important reason might be the ferocious nature of Iraq itself - a ferocity that, I think, has something to do with the war's religious context. Visions of God were not a factor in Vietnam. Marx and Lenin, maybe. Nationalism, of course. But not God. Eddie Adams and all the others lived each day with the possibility of sudden death. Some were captured, held as prisoners, and later released.

66. Lection: Why Sinatra Matters The title of pete hamill s Why Sinatra Matters promises something it doesn t really deliver. We hear that Frank Sinatra mattered immensely to himself, http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/030929.html

lection home authors titles dates ... about why sinatra matters 29 September 2003 The title of Pete Hamill's Why Sinatra Matters promises something it doesn't really deliver. We hear that Frank Sinatra mattered immensely to himself, greatly to his mother, significantly to Italian-Americans, and transcendently to American music. The why of the first two matterings is trivial. The why of the third is obvious: like Fiorello LaGuardia or Joe DiMaggio, Sinatra showed that people from immigrant stock could be stars. The why of the fourth matter Sinatra's music is difficult to capture, and Hamill doesn't quite succeed here. There's no glamourous lifestyle here. Sinatra "abused his body in a way that was special to his generation of American men; that he had survived until eighty-two was itself a kind of triumph over the odds." Hamill presents Sinatra as "a good father and a poor husband," and minces no words over the abusiveness (on both sides) of his relationship with Ava Gardner. Nor does Hamill wax admiring over Sinatra's acting career. The filmography in the back of his book lists only those pictures "that remain worth seeing," and there are only a dozen of those. But that leaves the music, and Hamill knows that that matters: "his work will endure as long as men and women can hear, and ponder, and feel." That's a pretty safe description of the recordings that Sinatra made with Nelson Riddle at Capitol in the 1950s, where Hamill (and most critics) would locate the core of his achievement.

67. The Santa Barbara Independent Pete Hamill’s New Novel, North River Among mature people, love develops in a series of small moments,” explained pete hamill, on the phone from New York City to discuss his new novel, http://independent.com/news/2007/oct/11/pete-hamills-new-novel-emnorth-riverem/

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); CREATE AN ACCOUNT LOG.IN CONTENTS CLASSIFIEDS ... Personals Pete Hamill’s New Novel, North River A Love Story for Grownups Thursday, October 11, 2007 By Colin Marshall Article Tools Print friendly E-mail story Tip Us Off iPod friendly Comments Bookmark This del.icio.us. Digg! furl google newsvine reddit technorati Facebook Yahoo! Among mature people, love develops in a series of small moments,” explained Pete Hamill, on the phone from New York City to discuss his new novel, North River. “It’s about needs, desires, and understandings. It’s not like Wuthering Heights ; that’s not the way people connect with each other. I wanted to do a love story for grownups.” North River ’s protagonist Jim Delaney, a battle-wounded Irish physician in Depression-era New York, could hardly be further removed from Jane Austen’s coterie. Barely able to support himself, he nevertheless makes constant house calls to patients unable to pay their own bills. Delaney’s wife, frustrated with the void created by his voluntary service in the Great War, wanders off one day in the direction of the North River (as the Hudson was then known), never to be seen again. When the good doctor discovers his own grandchild abandoned at his door, it seems his subsistence-level lifestyle is doomed. Delaney’s grown daughter, the note pinned to little Carlito’s stroller explains, intends to travel to Spain in order to locate her devoutly revolutionary husband. In the meantime, she’d like Delaney to raise her two year old as best as he can. Because Delaney’s fumbling best looks adequate to nobody, he hires Rose Verga, an Italian immigrant with a hazy past, to be Carlito’s nanny, paying her with a windfall of dubious provenance the doctor received after secretly treating a gangster’s gunshot injury. Complicating the situation, a threatening rival gangster learns of Delaney’s involvement in the conflict, and Rose’s history with that rival gang slowly emerges.

68. A Review Of North River By Pete Hamill :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven For B pete hamill, a versatile writer of extensive background, has set North River, his tenth novel, in New York City during the years of the Great Depression. http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1634

69. Rambles: Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan For pete hamill, author of Downtown My Manhattan, New York City is home. It is a place he has witnessed constant change over the last seven decades. http://www.rambles.net/hamill_mymanh04.html

Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan (Time Warner, 2004) New York. For most people, that name invokes images of the city, not the state. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it also brings up memories of the Twin Towers and the sudden shift in the way Americans live their lives (especially noticeable every time you fly anywhere). For Pete Hamill, author of Downtown: My Manhattan , New York City is home. It is a place he has witnessed constant change over the last seven decades. Despite the often negative image NYC has, Pete is like most residents there is no place he would rather live. Listening to the six-hour audiobook version of Downtown , which Pete also narrates, you can hear a hint of pride as he describes not only the history of the city, but also parts of his own life. While the book popcorns back and forth from borough to borough, topic to topic, century to century, there are a few common threads. The main thread is "nostalgia." If there is one thing long-time residents have in common, it is a nostalgia for things lost to time, whether it is monumental buildings, entertainment, a sports team or even a favorite restaurant or bar. Pete also brings up the New York "alloy" on a fairly regular basis. This city is nothing if not a melting pot of all the world's ethnicities. A final thread I will mention is "velocity." The pace of NYC is quick. Change is always just around the corner. Yet this will always be old New York in many respects. As someone who has not spent any time in New York City, I was unsure I would relate, or even care enough to get past any preconceived notions I had about Pete's home town. Fortunately, while Pete has a somewhat monotone voice, his writing style is such that I soon didn't care that I couldn't draw out a map showing the relationship between Times Square, Fifth Avenue or Five Points. I found myself responding to little factoids. "I didn't know tap dancing started in New York!" "So that's how the term 'Knickerbockers' came into being!" (If you don't know the reason, you'll have to listen to or read the book to find out). "So that is how Broadway started!"

70. The Packer Collegiate Institute: Brooklyn Author Pete Hamill Caps Off "Common Re Brooklyn Author pete hamill Caps Off Common Read The Packer Collegiate Institute. http://www.packer.edu/page.cfm?p=552

71. Peter Hamill, Forever pete hamill s Forever has two main characters. One is Cormac Samuel O Connor, an Irish boy who grows up believing that his name is Robert Carson until he http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_hamill_forever.html

Peter Hamill, Forever (Little, Brown and Company, 2003) Pete Hamill's Forever has two main characters. One is Cormac Samuel O'Connor, an Irish boy who grows up believing that his name is Robert Carson until he learns of his secret Jewish and Celtic heritages and the burdens they bear. The other main character is the city of New York, also birthed with a different name and nationality, also a mixture of the impossible dreams and demands of its multi-ethnic heritage. When Cormac's parents are killed by the Earl of Warren, a casually cruel aristocrat making a fortune in the slave trade, he leaves Ireland for the legendary shores of a land that seems further than the fabled Otherworld where his parents now rest. During the voyage, Cormac befriends an African holy man, a babalawo, being taken to the New World to become a slave. After a riot by the poor against the rich in which Cormac nearly dies, the babalawo gives the Celt eternal life, so that he can fulfill his obligation to avenge the deaths of his parents. But there is a price for the gift: Cormac can never leave the island of Manhattan, and if he tries, he will never reach the Otherworld. Forever As for the city itself, the other great character in this great novel, it can be scented before it can be seen, the odor of sweet earth and human decay. It sounds like Babel, "all the nations of the earth, their languages drifting through the soggy air," and feels filthy ... long before car exhaust and industrial waste, the city's water was filled with shit and smoke blackened the sides of buildings. Cormac expresses alternating feelings of love and rage at this "city of the present tense, an eternal now," which is never a melting pot so much as an amalgam of cultures and personalities that clash and compete with one another as often as they feed off one another and grow strong together.

72. Baseball Hall Of Fame Opens Doors For Former Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley Send apologies to pete Rose. All moral arguments about who belongs in Cooperstown are over forever. Walter O Malley has been voted into the Baseball Hall of http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2007/12/04/2007-12-04_baseball_hall_o

var tcdacmd="dt"; Get the latest News, Sports and Gossip delivered to your home Sign Up Manage Account Home Autos ... Games Site Blogs Discussions News NY Crime Politics US/World News ... Contact Saturday, January 26, 2008 Baseball Hall of Fame opens doors for former Dodger owner Walter O'Malley Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 4:00 AM Daily News Dodger manager Walter Alston (l.) and owner Walter O'Malley in 1953 Forget the dithering about Barry Bonds. Send apologies to Pete Rose. Warm up a place for Shoeless Joe Jackson. All moral arguments about who belongs in Cooperstown are over forever. Walter O'Malley has been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I know, I know: The thing about the Dodgers and Brooklyn was a long time ago. Several generations of fans have grown up in the 50 years since O'Malley moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles and they don't really care. Scholars have made cases that O'Malley had no recourse, that the true villain was Robert Moses, that New York and the rest of the country were being transformed by television, blah and blah and blah. But there are millions of us who still subscribe to an almost biblical injunction: Never forgive, never forget.

73. Peter Hamill: Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night/Nadir's Big Chance Reissues Crud reviews Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night/Nadir s Big Chance Reissues by Peter hamill. http://www.2-4-7-music.com/newsitems/sept06/peter-hammill_remastered.asp

REVIEWS NEWS CRUD - MYSPACE NEW RELEASES ... Z Pepe Deluxe The Mischief Of Cloud 9 [video] Catskills Records Not Stuffing A Turkey This Year? Then Try Any One Of These ... Amy Winehouse Mika Rhydian Gerry McCann Louis Walsh View Weekly Poll Results ALBUM / CD REVIEWS :: ANTHONY REYNOLDS :: LE LOUP :: MOVING UNITS :: LE LOUP ... :: NICOL WILLIS LATEST NEWS :: The Breeders :: Stephen Fretwell :: Rivers Cuomo :: Elbow ... :: Vincent Vincent LATEST FEATURES :: Gravenhurst :: Raveonettes :: Eels/BBC4 :: Saint Vincent ... :: Junior Boys LATEST INTERVIEWS :: Half Cousin :: Liars :: Little Man Tate :: Scritti Politti ... :: Palace Fires Crud pulls out its torch and stumbles across a chameleon in the shadow of the night and someone in the silent corner of an empty stage. Just so happens we have a camera too. Well, here's our big chance.... When I mentioned to my brother that I had received a set of four Pete Hammill albums, I thought he might be pleased. He was, afterall, eight years older than me and was alive and kicking in 1973 when bands like Van Der Graf Generator, Gryphon, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull and King Crimson were loosening their leidenhosen and adjusting their codpieces and preparing not only supper and tales from a topographic ocean, but also lavishly extended improvisations in the key of A Major9#11. Instead he said, "well look at this way; on the one hand you have a set of Peter Hammill records, on the other a handy draught excluder"

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