(After publishing the article, the celebrated short-story writer bragged for years that Sophia had kissed him!) Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote a song for her, “Pass the Wine (Sophia Loren),” released on the remastered version of Exile on Main St....

Corum on fight nights, recalling Basilio against Chuck Davey when listening on the radio in my kitchen and going wild when Carmen won, remembering attending the Memorial service of my friend Budd Schulberg who wrote "On The Waterfront" and speaking...

While some of Murray’s conclusions and prescriptions are debatable, the rift in white America is not. In fact, Murray’s book had me turning to another piece of writing: Pete Hamill’s “The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class,” published in New York...

I saw Sean Chercouver in discussion with Marcus Sakey, spent time with too many friends to mention, thanked Barb D’Amato for getting a book out, blew off meeting Pete Hamill to give Bill Jung a hug, dashed through raindrops to see Julie Hyze, met...

Pete Hamill’s most recent novels include Tabloid City: A Novel as well as New York Times Bestseller, Snow in August, and North River: A Novel. His memoir, A Drinking Life, which chronicled his childhood and youth as a working-class Irish kid in the...

A view of the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn, on April 19, 1939 (Credit: Associated Press) Brooklyn isn’t only a place where writers live. It’s a place writers write about. It has been so for over 150 years. Some say there’s nothing special about that: w