Opinion: Remembering Pete Hamill, The Tabloid Man Whose Greatest Story Was His Own
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Pete Hamill, former columnist for the New York Post and Daily News, who's memoir A Drinking Life told tough truths. Hamill died this week at the age of 85.
by Scott Simon
Aug 08, 2020
1 minute
TAB RAG SCRIBE MAKES LAST DEADLINE! Pete Hamill was a tabloid man: a columnist and top name on the masthead, mostly for the New York Post and Daily News, who wrote punchy, passionate, lyrical chronicles of city life, often for people who had
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