Meet Jimmy Breslin
Meet Jimmy Breslin, the columnist who epitomizes classic New York City.
View ArticleRichard Ben Cramer RNC Interview
Columnist Richard Ben Cramer interviewed about Bob Dole at the RNC.
View ArticleCarl Hiaasen Talking About Writing
Carl Hiaasen talks about his writing career and growing up in Florida.
View ArticleJack Newfield – Politics and Corruption
New York Sun and Nation contributor Jack Newfield talks about newspaper columns, politics and corruption.
View ArticleMolly Ivins – Scared to Death
Molly Ivins tells a profound story about John Henry Falk and his childhood friend and what happens when you’re so scared you lose your freedom.
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March 15th, 2013 – Washington Post Reviews DA2
The Washington Post’s Timothy Smith calls DA2 a “Wonderful Addition” to the series. In 2011, Overlook Press came out with “Deadline Artists,” one of the greatest collections of newspaper articles ever...
View ArticleFreedom versus Security – James Reston – New York Times – 6/19/1971
“Here various news we tell, of love and strife, Of peace and war, health, sickness, death and life… Of turns of fortune, changes in the State, The falls of favorites, projects of the great, Of old...
View ArticleAre You John Lennon? – Jimmy Breslin – Daily News – 12/1980
That summer in Breezy Point, when he was eighteen and out of Madison High in Brooklyn, there was the Beatles on the radio at the beach through the hot days and on the jukebox through the nights in the...
View ArticleA Short Story about the Vietnam War Memorial – Molly Ivins – Dallas Times...
SHE had known, ever since she first read about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, that she would go there someday. Sometime she would be in Washington and would go and see his name and leave again. So...
View ArticleThe Southern Gentlemen – Murray Kempton – 11/14/1955
THE come-on flyers for the Southern Gentlemen’s organization of Louisiana are tricked out rather drearily with a stock drawing of an ante-bellum colonel, goateed and string-tied. Their living...
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