Pete Hamill

Brian Dennehy is a man of contrasts. He possesses both an imposing square frame and a physical grace; his eyes can burn with ferocity as well as warmth; and whether he's playing a lug, a king or a down-on-his-luck salesman, surface charms can belie inner...

FIRST, BECAUSE of what happened there 40 years ago today, it was a crime scene. Then it became evidence in a murder trial. The passage of time eased it from a place of horror to a place in history. And then bureaucracy consigned it -- most of it -- to a...

WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...

Forty years ago this week, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary. One moment he was thanking a standing-room crowd, the next he was sprawled in a hotel pantry, blood...

The dark caverns of New York City's bars have inspired such great works as Pete Hamill's "A Drinking Life," Hunter S. Thompson's "The Rum Diary" and James Baldwin's "Previous Condition." While many of these old haunts have since bit the dust, a handful...

November 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...

Dennis Duggan, one of the last of an old-time breed of newspapermen, a warm-hearted and keen-eyed journalist who spent more than a half-century charming his way into the lives, hearts and histories of people in his beloved New York City, died yesterday....

Get a feel for the place by reading these books about or set in New York City. Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (ed): The Andy Warhol Diaries A wild and bitchy account of New York clublife in the 1970s. Kenneth Jackson (ed): The Encyclopedia of New York City...

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — During an eventful 45-year career, Edward Kosner has held some of the most prestigious posts in journalism, as the editor of Newsweek, New York magazine, Esquire and the New York Daily News. But when it came time to write his...

The men and women whose lives filled the columns penned by Newsday's Dennis Duggan filed into an Upper East Side funeral home Wednesday, trading tales about the late columnist as if he were one of the epic Irish poets he so loved to quote. Duggan, who...

MUSEUMS QUEENS ASTORIA. "Behind the Screen,” exploring the film and television industry, permanent; "Expanded Entertainment,” more than 20 games and digital interactive artworks illustrating the evolution of digital play over the past four decades,...

Lurking behind Mayor Michael Bloomberg's dramatic bid to make the landmark Tweed Courthouse his school headquarters are the political alliances and rivalries of the Manhattan museum world. The big loser in Bloomberg's scenario is the Museum of the City...