Jimmy Breslin, the great newspaper columnist, once said to me, “I don’t give a f--- what the hea...
Author: Denis Hamill
I just heard the passing thunder of a LIRR train from the deckchair of my back yard.
The ground shoo...
I was laid off from my full-time job writing for a TV series on the morning of March 12.
The compan...
Like everyone else in lockdown, quarantine, solitary confinement, I was bitching last week because t...
My father gave me one piece of advice for life: “Take s*** from nobody.”
After losing his leg t...
Ryan sat in his lounge chair by the window and watched the ghosts crowd the empty street.
Birds chi...
In the early 1970s, the author Tom Wolfe visited Robert Ward’s creative writing class at Hobart an...
You gotta love all the hate.
Nothing like a new plague to bring out the worst in the most hateful sp...
I’m standing here on the LIRR platform waiting for a Penn Station-bound train in mid-February wear...
The professor never took a journalism class.
But for 60 years, Karl Grossman has been a celebrated ...
“I was so much older then/I’m younger than that now.” —
Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”
Aro...
I rang in the New Year in Dublin.
There was a rock concert on The Quays and a fireworks show that i...
It was sad Christmas news.
Ryan read the email from his sister, the only girl in a family of seven ...
Race is still the number one issue in America.
So the recent excellent and comprehensive Newsday in...
At age 10, bullies drove him to suicide.
Some kids leave a mark on this world when they leave it.
...
I love to walk.
I grew up in Brooklyn, where I spent the first 25 years of my life on foot.
In my ...
Almost every Irish family has a ghost story.
My down-to-earth father Billy Hamill was the last guy ...
Fall in New York is my favorite time of the year.
As a kid, I hated when summer vacation ended and ...
You never know what’s coming.
There’s an old adage in journalism: “If your mother tells you s...
My son will vote in his first presidential election next year.
But on September 11, 2001, I was vid...