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Reading Circle
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Newport Public Library
Tuesday, January 10
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Reading this Month: Forever by Pete Hamill
The Newport Public Library's Reading circle meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from noon to 1:30 p.m. Come join us in the McEntee Meeting Room -- and bring a lunch.
More about Pete Hamill
1. Pete Hamill was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. in 1935. He is the oldest of seven children of Irish immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland and attended Catholic schools as a child. He left school at 16 to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a sheetmetal worker, and then went on to the United States Navy. While serving in the Navy, he completed his high school education. Then, using the educational benefits of the G.I. Bill of Rights, he attended Mexico City College in 1956-1957, studying painting and writing. ... (from the website of Pete Hamill )
2. PETE HAMILL started his career at the New York Post in 1960. He has written for numerous national magazines, has worked as a syndicated columnist, and was most recently editor in chief of the New York Daily News. His books include eight novels, two collections of stories, and A Drinking Life, his bestselling memoir.Born in Brooklyn in 1935, of Irish immigrant parents, Pete Hamill served in the U.S. Navy, attended Mexico City College, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. He started working at the New York Post in 1960, became a columnist in 1965, and for five hilarious weeks in 1993 served as Editor in Chief during the successful effort to save that newspaper from extinction. (from South Asian Journalists Association, includes and audio of Hamill's talk)
More about Forever
1. Time Warner books provides a Reading Group Guide for Forever.
2. There are just a few writers who should attempt to write a novel about the history of New York City, and Pete Hamill is probably at the top of that list. He's been the editor in chief of the New York Daily News and the New York Post and has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Newsday. To tell the story of the city, he creates the character of Cormac O'Connor, an Irish boy who emigrates to Manhattan in 1740 and remains there forever. It's an interesting plot concept to have one person see and tell the whole history of a city, as opposed to a sweeping drama following a family from generation to generation. Unfortunately, this approach does not succeed, despite the author's best efforts. ... (from ReviewsofBooks.com )
3. Former editor in chief of both the New York Post and New York Daily News, Pete Hamill is a New Yorker through and through. Forever is truly his labor of love for the city. ... (from berniE-zine Book Reviews and More )
posted Monday, 9 January 2006
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