San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Becoming Americans Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing Edited by Ilan Stavans (The Library of America; 724 pages; $40) Pete Hamill's foreword to "Becoming Americans" offers caveats for cliches brewing in the 85 essays, short stories, novel excerpts, poems,...
Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... Eddie Redmayne (THE GOOD SHEPHERD). The film is loosely based on a short story by renowned writer Pete Hamill. The Yellow Handkerchief will be released to theaters on February 12, 2010. Watch the trailer and check out the full poster below. Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content...
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Nicholas Stix Toogood Reports November 3, 2002 After having been constantly told that the sniper was a white, Christian male, we are confronted with a main suspect who is a “military veteran” (mumble, black Moslem, mumble). Although the suspects are both black, we have been told by white, liberal journalists such as Pete Hamill and black civilians alike, that black folks...
Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Eddie Redmayne (THE GOOD SHEPHERD). The film is loosely based on a short story by renowned writer Pete Hamill.
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Pete Hamill remembers those heady days 20 years ago when the symbol of Soviet domination was bludgeoned to rubble. Editor’s note: This essay launches the Global Post special project “After the Fall: 20 Years Since the Berlin Wall Came Down.” I first saw the Berlin Wall in 1971. It was then about 10 years old and was the ugliest [...]
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Up Against A Wall of Debt -- Robert Samuelson, Real Clear Politics WASHINGTON -- The idea that the government of a major advanced country would default on its debt -- that is, tell lenders that it won't repay them all they're owed -- was, until recently, a preposterous proposition. Argentina and Russia have stiffed their creditors, but surely the likes of the United States, Japan or Great Britain wouldn't....
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
According to a press release issued today, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron ( When Harry Met Sally, Julie & Julia ) and Tisch grad and director Spike Lee ( Do the Right Thing, 25 Hours ) are slated to take part in the J-School’s “Primary Sources” conversation series. Ephron will be speaking from 3-4pm with former NY Post and NY Daily News editor-in-chief Peter Hamill on November...
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Jerome Rodale, a Jewish playwright, editor, author and publisher, was a guest on the Dick Cavett Show on June 5, 1971, when he dropped dead of a heart attack while the show was taping. Wile Cavett was discussing politics with journalist Pete Hamill, Rodale’s head dropped to his chest and he let out what sounded like [...]
e·ratio (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
It’s not so much that I am reading Skip Fox’s book, Delta Blues, as that I am having an encounter with it. And all that “encounter” suggests; as in, say, confrontation. This is subway reading without the subway. As I get older I begin to appreciate different writers; as I get older I begin to appreciate different writers writing differently. Writers like Pete Hamill...
