Pete Hamill Interview on Frank Sinatra
Author & journalist, Pete Hamill is guest on The 'Charlie Rose' Show during this 1998 interview about Frank Sinatra and his significance. Hamill discusses his book: Why Sinatra Matters. "The voice was obviously there. It was a violin that became a viola that ended up as a cello." -Pete Hamill
City Talk: Pete Hamill, author, "Tabloid City" Part 1 (2011)
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Doug is joined by Pete Hamill, journalist, novelist, essayist, editor, educator and author of the new book "Tabloid City." In the first part of a two-part series, they discuss Mr. Hamill's position as a fixture of the New York literary scene. City Talk is CUNY TV 's forum for politics and public affairs. City Talk presents lively discussion of New York City issues, with the people that help make this city function. City Talk is hosted by Professor Doug Muzzio, co-director of the Center for the Study of Leadership in Government and the founder and former director of the Baruch College Survey Research Unit, both at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs.
Brooklyn Book Festival announces Pete Hamill
as the 2012 BoBi Honoree. 2012/09/10
The Brooklyn Book Festival announced today that noted journalist, essayist and author Pete Hamill will receive the Festival's prestigious Best of Brooklyn, Inc.-The "BoBi"-Award, which is bestowed each year on an author who has had a broad impact on the field of literature and whose body of work exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn. Hamill will be celebrated at City Point in Downtown Brooklyn as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival Gala Mingle on Saturday, September 22. Hamill will then be featured at the main Festival on Sunday the 23rd, in conversation with Bill Goldstein (of WNBC-TV's Bill's Books), and joining former BoBi Award winners Edwidge Danticat and Paul Auster for readings moderated by Johnny Temple, chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council.
"For me, this is a great honor, one that humbles me in many, many ways," said Hamill. "Brooklyn is my Old Country, my true home place, the place that shaped me, the place where I learned to read, to listen, to fill myself with visions. The place of music and laughter and decency, punctuated now and then by tragedy. I will carry that Brooklyn with me to my grave."
— Pete Hamill Celebrates Brooklyn Book Festival's Best of Brooklyn, Inc. Award, 9/22-23
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 10, 2012
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Pete Hamill on 9/11, Jihads, and Why bin Laden's Death Can't Bring Closure
Pete Hamill was a block and a half from the World Trade Center when Osama Bin Laden launched his attack on September 11, 2001. Starting that morning, and for the next several weeks, this legendary newspaperman brought the world close to the atrocities and their aftermath.
Osama Bin Laden As President Obama travels to New York to pay his respect to the victims of 9/11, I wanted to talk to Hamill because he understands New York and those days of almost ten years ago as well as anyone. The city fills his acclaimed novels, Snow in August and Forever. His memoir, A Drinking Life, is now a classic New York story. And Hamill's latest book, Tabloid City, published this week, is a thriller about a jihadist plot in Manhattan.