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	SALON \| Media Circus
		Hamill had begun to challenge the tabloid ethic of the '80s and '90s that declares "news" to be whatever Diana and Dodi, Donald and Ivana, Madonna and Whoever, had for brunch.
		Hamill wanted to create a modern-day analogy to what he called a "zocalo in Latin America; a place where different cultures can collide in the plaza, rub off on one another and then go home." Moreover, this was going to be a newspaper for New Yorkers.
		Hamill, and much of the staff, attributed this to the fact that the new color printing plant in New Jersey was getting the paper to Brooklyn and Queens too late for people to pick up on their way to work.
	www.salon.com /sept97/media/media970910.html (904 words)

	Pete Hamill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pete Hamill (born 1935) is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
		Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn as the oldest of seven children of Irish immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
		Hamill published two collections of journalism, a book about the relationship of tools to art, and a book about New York City, along with Why Sinatra Matters, an essay on the music of the late singer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pete_Hamill (267 words)

	Book Review - Forever by Pete Hamill
		Pete Hamill does a wonderful job bringing the Irish countryside to life in all its lushness and rhythms juxtaposed with the cruelty of its people and its weather.
		Pete Hamill's story meanders for centuries, becoming an occasion for name dropping of historical figures and a source of trivia knowledge since Cormac witnesses every important event in Manhattan's history.
		Pete Hamill's love for the city is evident throughout this book, and those already steeped in its history may find this novel more enjoyable than others.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /forever/review (1380 words)

	Pete Hamill bio
		Hamill discussed the role of newspapers--past, present and future; the future of New York City; the importance of immigration in shaping society; journalists who write novels; and his love of writing and reading.
		In the 1970s, Hamill also worked as a columnist for the Daily News for three years, did several hitches as a columnist at the Village Voice and has been a contributing editor at New York Times Magazine for twenty-five years.
		Hamill also practices the craft of fiction and has published eight novels, the most recent being Snow in August.
	www.saja.org /hamill.html (496 words)

	Online NewsHour: Then and Now: Pete Hamill -- Sept. 5, 2002
		PETE HAMILL: That was the most permeating part of it, because the shock was over, the awe was over, the visual horror of the thing with the flames and the firemen was over.
		PETE HAMILL: New Yorkers-- because the city is the people-- and that they went beyond that.
		PETE HAMILL: I hope we don't turn our back on the thing that made us great in the first place, which is the ability to absorb people who are different from us and make the city even stronger as a result.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/hamill_9-05.html (1261 words)

	Backgrounder: Pete Hamill \| Bullpen
		Pete Hamill was born in Brooklyn, but he claims the streets of downtown Manhattan as his own.
		In the opening chapter, Hamill recounts the moment he first became entranced: As a child, he stood at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and peered at the spires of lower Manhattan and believed it was Oz.
		In Downtown, Hamill calls immigration “that extraordinary process that created the modern city.” Hamill’s New York is one of gritty waterfronts and hard-boiled immigrants, of Irish and Italians and Jews and fls who built Gotham and whose tales remain distinct.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/bullpen/pete_hamill/backgrounder (636 words)

	Author: Pete Hamill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pete Hamill's story Snow In August is set in the late nineteen-forties in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood which is changing rapidly with the times.
		Hamill captures the life of a young boy struggling to come to terms with his own beliefs and a surrounding racist society.
		Hamill brings together the universal themes of isolation, friendship, racism, adolescence, and faith in a touching slice of a New York neighborhood.
	users.rcn.com /denebola/archives/vol37_issue6/issue/book_review/article1.html (822 words)

	AJR - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer...
		For every night of revelry, Hamill the journalist reminds us, there is a morning of reckoning: waking up beside a spouse who has caught the act one too many times; facing hurt and often embarrassed children; dealing with hangovers and memory loss.
		Pete Hamill, with the first of many fights behind him, started down that road toward understanding the pain and shame alcohol can cause.
		Hamill journeyed across the river to Manhattan, walked the streets of Greenwich Village, discovered the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, drank with Jack Kerouac and Leroi Jones and — bless the arrogance of youth — talked his way into a reporting job at the New York Post.
	www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=1882 (872 words)

	CNN.com - How to live 'Forever' in New York - Feb. 19, 2003
		Though Hamill, who calls immortality a curse, says he would hate to be Cormac, this conceit does enable him to "watch" the city grow from a wilderness port to the city that never sleeps.
		Hamill explores several periods of the island's history, including the 1830s and the reign of the notorious politician Boss Tweed, whom the author depicts in a far more favorable light than many historians have.
		Hamill's next book is a nonfiction account of Manhattan, a project he describes as more personal and idiosyncratic than "Forever." He hopes it will reflect his layered sense of the city.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/books/02/19/wkd.pete.hamill.ap (1088 words)

	CJR - Pete Hamill Wakes up the Daily News, by Bruce Porter
		Hamill's sojourn lasted a bare five weeks, during which he led a staff insurrection against the owners, got fired for his insolence not once but twice, and ended up editing the paper from a diner down the street, in solidarity with editors who had been fired.
		The News Hamill was called on to edit, however, bore little resemblance to the News of yore, or lore -- that brash, tough-guy tabloid of the '40s and '50s, its reporters shooting questions out the side of their mouths, always plunking for the little guy a gainst the swells and the privileged.
		As Hamill applied Sann's dictums to his own writing, so now he's passing them along to his captive audience of young reporters as part of the renewal he hopes to generate at the Daily News.
	archives.cjr.org /year/97/3/hamill.asp (2283 words)

	Bookreporter.com - DOWNTOWN: My Manhattan by Pete Hamill
		Hamill reveals little known aspects of the city's history, from the first Dutch colonial governor, who was also the first to cook the city's books, to British Governor Lord Cornbury, who enjoyed strolling around in drag after 1702 and once had himself painted as Queen Anne.
		Hamill introduces us to a city where "the present becomes the past more rapidly than in any other world city." This is a place where the velocity of change is so great that it seems the entire city is rebuilt every ten years.
		Hamill calls New York "the capital of nostalgia." The immigrants endured a double dose of it.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0316734519.asp (871 words)

	Rambles: Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Listening to the six-hour audiobook version of Downtown, which Pete also narrates, you can hear a hint of pride as he describes not only the history of the city, but also parts of his own life.
		Fortunately, while Pete has a somewhat monotone voice, his writing style is such that I soon didn't care that I couldn't draw out a map showing the relationship between Times Square, Fifth Avenue or Five Points.
		Whether Pete is describing the history of some part of the city or reminiscing about his own experiences, I found myself captivated.
	www.rambles.net /hamill_mymanh04.html (515 words)

	Bookslut - The formation of an alloy: an interview with Pete Hamill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For decades, Pete Hamill has been the one of the public faces of New York City in his writings.
		Pete Hamill's "Forever" places the author firmly in the pantheon of British and American authors who are of that rarefied species: that of the journalist turned novelist.
		With the novel, Hamill shows beautifully that he possesses the combination of a journalistic knack for detail and a poetic ear for lyricism that a novelist needs.
	www.bookslut.com /features/0303/hamill.htm (1434 words)

	Time played role in creating Pete Hamill's latest novel - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Pete Hamill was in a contemplative mood as the end of the 20th century loomed, especially as he celebrated his 60th birthday.
		Hamill read Irish, African and Latin American myth-based stories before he wrote "Forever." He says the trick to writing a book that contains magical realism is to simply not make a big deal about it.
		Hamill casts the notorious political powerbroker as a man who used the admittedly corrupt system that was in place to make changes — such as bringing water to the Five Points section in Manhattan — to improve the city.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/guide/s_114356.html (1168 words)

	Mickey Z.: Cool Observer: Pete Hamill says:
		Pete Hamill is one of the reasons I became a writer.
		Hamill weaves his own memories of Manhattan with the liveliest moments from its past, and points out the hints of that past living on in the city of today, fueling the ever-present nostalgia of its inhabitants.
		Hamill introduces us to the New Yorkers who have left indelible marks: Peter Stuyvesant and John Jacob Astor, Stanford White and George Templeton Strong, Edith Wharton and Henry James, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, W. Auden and Allen Ginsberg, Boss Tweed and Fiorello La Guardia, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk, and scores of others.
	www.mickeyz.net /news/mickeyz/fullarticle/pete_hamill_says (522 words)

	CJR - The Greatest Tab Story Ever Told, by Mike Hoyt
		On Hamill's desk at the Post on the day I met him, his ninth day as editor, were a bag of grapes, two oranges, two apples, a diet Pepsi, and a pack of Vantage cigarettes.
		Hamill said he was "aggressively searching" for Spanish-speaking reporters as well, and had gained the guild's cooperation in starting a paid internship program for minority group members.
		Hamill's business plan for the Post was to build it up with quality writing and reporting into something that readers would take home, rather than leaving "on the F train or the floor of OTB" -- a paper with the heft to attract more advertising.
	archives.cjr.org /year/93/3/post.asp (3745 words)

	Pete Hamill guides readers through lost New York
		Hamill roars at the punchline, his head thrown back as if a stiff wind is blowing from the Hudson.
		After years of research, Hamill spent three years writing the novel, both in New York City and in the hamlet of Wallkill, where he lived for several years, and where his daughter continues to live on a farm.
		Hamill started out wanting to be a painter, but this desire was "derailed by several factors: a failure of will and the need to make a living.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2003/01/29/farlekas.htm (1173 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Why Sinatra Matters - Pete Hamill - Paperback - Bargain
		Pete Hamill knew Frank Sinatra well—so well, in fact, that he almost coauthored the singer's autobiography.
		Hamill's slim essay is distinguished from other recent works by its objective focus on the components of the late singer's enduring musical legacy.
		Veteran writer Hamill (e.g., A Drinking Life, LJ 1/94) is comfortable in the New York City milieu of late nights, saloons, and prizefighters, and he has captured the essence of Sinatra, who created something that was not there before he arrived: an urban American voice.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&endeca=1&isbn=064169234X&itm=8 (1099 words)

	NYU - Press Release
		Hamill's magazine experience includes over 25 years as a contributing editor at New York Times Magazine, where he covered the wars in Vietnam, Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Nicaragua.
		In addition to his journalistic accomplishments, Hamill has published eight novels and two collections of stories, and written a number of screenplays, most recently a film biography of the Mexican revolutionary leader, Pancho Villa, for Edward James Olmos.
		Hamill was born in Brooklyn in 1935, of Irish immigrant parents.
	www.nyu.edu /publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_fas_hamill_2004.shtml (417 words)

	Lecture: Pete Hamill \| Bullpen
		Veteran journalist and author Pete Hamill advised journalism students to explore New York City and to remember its history when writing about the city during a reading of his newest book, Downtown: My Manhattan, at a recent New York University talk.
		Hamill, who was born in Brooklyn in 1935 to working-class Irish immigrants, said that low crime rates in the city meant fewer sensational murders to report so newspapers were forced to report on murders of a smaller caliber.
		Hamill shared his daily writing routine, which includes breakfast, research and an afternoon nap following lunch, saying that naps were necessary to help writers think.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/bullpen/pete_hamill/lecture (613 words)

	Pete Hamill: The Man Who Loves a City
		In Pete Hamill’s days on the New York Post, and mine, under hardboiled executive editor Paul Sann and manic managing editor Al Davis, there was a topflight veteran investigative reporter named Joseph Kahn.
		By the time Pete Hamill decided to leave the paper for good, in 1974, he was writing four columns a week for $15,000 a year.
		Pete had taken over the custody and raising of his daughters, a fairly unusual role for a man, and certainly unusual for a newspaperman.
	www.nyc-plus.com /nycp2/petehamil.html (2759 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Books of The Times \| 'Downtown': Hanging Tough in a City That's Always Changing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hamill, a New Yorker's New Yorker, did not learn to drive until he was 36, so he takes a pedestrian's view of his hometown.
		Hamill's second great subject, the way that immigrant groups or buildings or artistic movements all leave their traces on the city, so that they are never really lost.
		Hamill passes Webster Hall on East 11th Street, a stop on his tour of what was once called New York's Rialto, he sinks into a reverie about his parents, who met at an Irish dance there in the 1930's.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/12/22/books/22grim.html?ex=1261458000&en=583449e6b6378ea1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (1104 words)

	Paul Sann Journalism, Letters, Writings
		One of them Pete mentioned in the lovely piece he wrote on Saturday, and Alan mentioned it also in his piece, that it was the newspaperman's job to interest the reader, not the other way around.
		Pete Hamill, who wrote one of the great eulogies I've ever read, and truly one of the few columns he's ever written in which the hero wasn't a fellow by the name of Jose [laughter] and a four-year-old kid named Carmen wasn't freezing to death in a cold water flat.
		My father wouldn't have wanted this tribute -- it was Hamill's idea and Hamill will have to answer for it [laughter] -- but I know that he would have loved it, and I know that he wouldn't have admitted that he loved it.
	www.paulsann.org /tribute.htm (6822 words)

	Amazon.ca: Diego Rivera: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hamill's text, he says, was completed before the publication of Patrick Marnham's Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera.
		In particular, Hamill is suspect of the seemingly universal admiration for Rivera's "narcissist" wife, artist Frida Kahlo.
		Hamill does a fine job of giving a sense of the relentless pressure for revolution, the early optimism about the Revolution, and the descent into business as usual.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0810932342 (1581 words)

	Amazon.com: Downtown : My Manhattan: Books: Pete Hamill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hamill is at once awed by the city's energy and haunted by her losses.
		Hamill knows, as did Whitman, that the place where a great city stands is not the "place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops" but, rather, stands in the hearts of people like Hamill's parents that arrive from distant shores to build those buildings and live their lives.
		Pete Hamill's "Downtown: My Manhattan" is part of the latest spate of books that combine personal New York City experience and New York City history, as do Colson Whitehead's "The Colossus of New York" (in a way) and Phillip Lopate's "Waterfront".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316734519?v=glance (3201 words)

	The Anniston Star - Pete Hamill’s epic New York novel tracks the city, time after time
		Few writers are as capable as William Peter Hamill of imagining such a character, says the New York historian-novelist Kevin Baker.
		Born into an immigrant Irish family, Hamill, 67, dropped out of high school to join the Navy at 17, landing his first reporting job in 1960, at the New York Post, after a stint as a commercial artist.
		“Pete is unusually generous, in a journalism world where most are very cheap with compliments,” says media writer Ken Auletta.
	www.cleburnenews.com /entertainment/2003/as-books-0118-0-3a18a1004.htm (1137 words)

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