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 Pete Hamill Information
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 Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935) is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of The New Yorker. Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn as the oldest of seven children of Catholic... 
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 The Boston Globe Pete Hamill nimbly sketches Sinatra
10/08/1998: 586 words, approx. 2 pages WHY SINATRA MATTERS By Pete Hamill Little, Brown, 185 pp., illustrated, $18 During the early '70s, Frank Sinatra considered writing his memoirs with Pete Hamill. It was a shrewd choice of collaborator. Who better than a top New York tabloid columnist to appreciate... summary from source:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Pete Hamill smiles on Ol' Blue Eyes
10/25/1998: 513 words, approx. 2 pages Why Sinatra Matters. By Pete Hamill. Little, Brown. 185 pages. Illustrated. $18. During the early '70s, Frank Sinatra considered writing his memoirs with Pete Hamill. It was a shrewd choice of collaborator. Who better than a top New York tabloid columnist to appreciate... summary from source:
 AP News Pete Hamill's new look at old Manhattan
6/25/2007: 857 words, approx. 3 pagesIn the midst of writing his best-selling memoir, Pete Hamill reached out to siblings Tom and Kathleen, hoping for the answer to a lingering question from their Brooklyn childhood: In the local candy store, Foppiano's, what exactly was in the racks between the Life Savers... summary from source:
AP News Quotes about Norman Mailer
11/10/2007: 560 words, approx. 2 pagesQuotes about Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at age 84:"He was really the great chronicler of his time, the champion of personal reportage. His output was prodigious, his range of interests very wide, from Marilyn Monroe to Picasso to the art of graffiti to extreme...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Eliot Asinof
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Blond blue-eyed Bobby Fallon is a tough Brooklyn Irish kid with a hunger to slay dragons. His fists hit like a mule kicking downhill. When he throws a punch, a scream bellows his rage, for his world is an endless chain of enemies. The torment of Pete Hamill's hero [in "Flesh and Blood"] is an erotic passion for his mother Kate, a beautiful half-Shoshone woman of 36 with a poignant, enigmatic smile. Kate, in turn, miserably lonely at the desertion of her dashing husband Jack, transfers h... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert Stephen Spitz
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Pete Hamill's previous novels (A Killing for Christ, The Gift) have been cogent, mannered vignettes about Brooklyn life. In Flesh and Blood, Hamill has unfortunately succumbed to the ignoble television-bred myth that the public will respond positively only to recycled pulp. However, despite its commercial obeisance, this book illuminates the author's ability to capture with stylized brio the nuances of the aching underbelly of society. That sensitivity in itself warrants a modicum of respect, ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
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"Flesh and Blood" is a powerful story. For one thing, Mr. Hamill's boxing material seems unusually savvy and authentic, though it's hard to say whether this is a purely technical achievement or the result of Mr. Hamill's having thinly disguised several actual figures in the profession…. Whatever the case, the boxing passages are a good deal more sophisticated than they are in most fiction of this sort. For once we can really believe it when Caputo tells his young ch...
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