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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn - Wikipedia  Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn .... Famous fictional residents of Bay Ridge include Peggy Olson of Mad Men and ... Its mission is to provide the New York metropolitan area with military .... Hubert Selby  author of Last Exit To Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream...
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Brooklyn - Wikipedia  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents ..... Kings County retained its status as one of New York State's counties, but the loss of Brooklyn's separate ..... the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island,...
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jeopardy/1512_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SAVE THESE BOOKS FOR "LAST" | Published in 1964, it's Hubert Selby's unflinchingly realistic portrayal of residents of a NYC borough | Last Exit to Brooklyn.
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Last Exit to Brooklyn: A Novel (An ...  He also wrote unflinchingly about sexual agony, something I hadn't seen ... stories and novellas, all set in the New York Borough of Brooklyn during the 1950s, ... The book was not only controversial on account of its subject-matter; Selby's ..... as much today as they did on first publication in 1964 in the US: drug addiction,...
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Hubert Selby Jr. - Wikipedia  Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928  April 26, 2004) was an American writer. His best-known novels are Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), exploring worlds in the New York ... Selby wrote about a harsh underworld seldom portrayed in literature before then. His first novel was prosecuted for...
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William Saroyan | American author | Britannica.com  American author ... The autobiographical element was strong in all his work, usually disguised as fiction; ... consisting of vignettes and brief essays written largely in Paris and Fresno, have ... in The Human Comedy (novel by Saroyan). sentimental novel of life in a small California town by William Saroyan, published in 1943.
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith  Reviews ... - Goodreads  A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900's, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows ... Published 1989 by The Reader's Digest Association (first published 1943) ..... Although I loved this book as a child, reading it as an adult gave me less. ..... The novel focuses on Francie Nolan, a young and idealistic girl living in the slums of...
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Same Initials as Shakespeare - NYTimes.com  May 3, 1998 ... ... adapted from his best-known novel, ''The Human Comedy'' (1943). ... Paris, in self-exile, writing autobiographical works and reflections on his career. ... In her eagerness to defend her author, however, Balakian sometimes loses perspective, ... Discussing his largely forgotten first play, ''My Heart's in the...
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woody allen manhattan | strawdogs  Apr 24, 2009 ... ... voice over to the opening sequence in Woody Allen's Manhattan - Chapter One: 'He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion'...
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A Cocktail Party In The Street: An Interview With Alan Stillman  Nov 15, 2010 ... In 1965, Alan Stillman was a young man living in Manhattan, who, in his ... The bar restaurant he founded, T.G.I. Friday's, began life as a public ... Alan Stillman: I lived on 63rd Street between First and York. ... That was pretty typical of the New York bar scene at the time. ..... However I hate chain restaurants.
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The Painful Nurturing of Doris Lessing's 'Fifth Child' - The New York ...  Mrs. Lessing was talking about her latest novel - her 35th book - ''The Fifth Child,'' a work that ... The novel is set in the English suburbs from the 1960's to the 80's, where a ... One American writer said it was really about the Palestinian problem. ... who is perhaps still best known for her 1962 work ''The Golden Notebook,''...
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the american past: NYC in focus: Bright Lights, Big City: Early 1980s ...  Sep 4, 2014 ... The Write Crowd: McInerney, Janowitz, Ellis, 1980s, NYC. "Die Yuppie Scum" was common graffiti that writer Jay McInerney ... He was anointed one of the "literary brat pack," along with other young writers, Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than ..... Labels: bright lights big city, east village, ed koch, gentrification,...
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The New York Times: Best Pictures  Past Winners ... To a theatergoer who has seen Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ... Indeed, the perilous task of fashioning a deft adaptation prompted Mr. Uhry ... based the two main characters on his own grandmother and her chauffeur. ... kind of reaction if I'm careful about making this person the one we all know.
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Glengarry Glen Ross (film) - Wikipedia  Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1992 American drama, adapted by David Mamet from his 1984 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning play of the same name, and directed by James Foley. The film is set in either New York City or Chicago, and was filmed in New ... The title of the film comes from the names of two of the real estate...
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The black side of life - The Irish Times  Jun 2, 2000 ... In Harron's film, it's New York in the late 1980s, that hothouse of capitalist ... did not, as seemed possible at one stage, end up with him as director ... The belatedly arrived latest film from Roman Polanski, The Ninth Gate, which ... and convincingly recreates New York street scenes in European studio sets.
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The Life of Fakery and Delusion In John Guare's 'Six Degrees ...  Jun 21, 1990 ... David Hampton, growing up in Buffalo, chose Sidney Poitier. ... Some of his story is the basis for ''Six Degrees of Separation,'' the new play by John ... arrested in Manhattan for posing as Sidney Poitier's son in order to gain access to ... Mr. Hampton said he was on campus to cast extras for the film version of...
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Tom Faure | Columbia Daily Spectator  Chapter 1. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Woody Allen, neurotically searching for his own opener in the best film he ever made.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey  Reviews ...  THIS AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER A SUBWAY TRAIN LEFT THE ..... John Godey ... This book is about a group of men hijacking a subway train in order to get 1 million ..... In 1973 the book came out, in 1974 they made a movie, then in 2009 they made .... The Taking of Pelham 123 is a masterfully written novel.
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Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry ...  Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Source: A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1958).
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Mario F. Puzo | The East Hampton Star  Mario Francis Puzo, the novelist and screenwriter whose 1969 Mafia saga ... York Times bestseller list for 67 weeks, died on Friday at home in Bay Shore. ... movies ever made, bought a historic house on Pantigo Road, East Hampton, ... His credits include "Earthquake," "Superman," "Superman II," and "The Cotton Club.
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At The New Yorker: My Own Memoir | Garrison Keillor  More memoirs have been written on the theme Me and the New Yorker than about ... him to New York as Harold Ross's stickman, back when the magazine was a ... and boarded the Shawnee and cast off the lines and motored down the Hudson. ... Man is conceived in ignorance and born into squalor and grief and it goes...