Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
"Flesh and Blood" is a powerful story. For one thing, Mr. Hamill's boxing material seems unusually savvy and authentic, though it�...
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Critical Essay by Eliot Asinof
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 b...
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Critical Essay by Robert Stephen Spitz
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 u...
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In 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 cand...
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Quotes 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 w...
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Pete Hamill thought he'd seen it all. And then the best-selling writer thought up a character who really had.Cormac O'Connor appeared in "Forever," Hamill's best-selling 2002 novel. Cormac was kill...
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There were books advocating the public role of Christianity and the soundness of the free market, an attack on the liberal "elite" by Laura Ingraham and a memoir by Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice p...
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Sinatra: The Life, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. Alfred A. Knopf, 576 pages, $26.95.I believe, based on a lifetime of consideration, that Frank Sinatra was the greatest interpretive musician ...
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Oh, what a year for newspapers! They’re dying! They’re keeling. They’re ghosts! They’re di-no-saurs! They’re mice! Eeeek!
And that’s just from the publishers. T...
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Oh, what a year for newspapers! They’re dying! They’re keeling. They’re ghosts! They’re di-no-saurs! They’re mice! Eeeek!
And that’s just from the publishers. ...
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"Is that Nell's?" a harried young man asked, standing on the north side of 14th Street near Eighth Avenue and pointing across the street at the awning of NA. Anticipating a fashion show that night,...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
Pete Hamill's new look at old Manhattan
