Glucksman Ireland House presents
Sixty Years of Journalism: Honoring Jimmy Breslin
Monday, December 7th at 7pm
at Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South, 4th floor
Honoring Pulitzer Prize-winner Jimmy Breslin in his eightieth year, Pete Hamill leads a conversation on “The New York Irish and the Newspaper” with fellow journalists of distinction.
An inimitable New York voice, the city’s “steadiest and most accurate chronicler,” (Tom Robbins, Village Voice), Breslin began his career as an investigative journalist at New York Herald Tribune and has contributed to many of the city’s newspapers and to Newsday. He is also the author of numerous novels and works of non-fiction, including I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir.
Hamill is a Member of the Glucksman House Advisory Board and a distinguished writer-in-residence in NYU’s Institute of Journalism. Hamill began his writing career at The New York Post; he is the author of numerous books, including Downtown: My Manhattan, Diego Rivera and A Drinking Life. His nine novels include Snow in August, Forever and North River, all of which were New York Times bestsellers.