Word: breslin
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...biweekly magazine, Publisher George Hirsch was understandably jubilant. His enthusiastic selling convinced backers that his project would fill the gap that he thinks exists between weekly newsmagazines and monthlies like Harper's and Atlantic. He had also corralled such notable New, Recent and Old Journalists as Jimmy Breslin, Larry L. King, J. Anthony Lukas, Joe McGinniss, Studs Terkel, Nicholas von Hoffman and Murray Kempton. So the promotional brochures for Hirsch's New Times were festive. A color drawing of some of the writers in a party setting carried the tongue-in-cheek warning: "Huddled in a congenial...
...owner of Newfield's paper is Millionaire S. Carter Burden.) Newfield also accuses Hirsch of failing to give the contributing editors-who are to receive shares of stock in addition to fees-a full explanation of the company's financial scaffolding and of special arrangements made with Breslin and a literary agent representing some of the writers...
Another thing that strips back the Breslin bravado (a thing he deals with in his writing) is the "lost possibilities" of people coming out of neighborhoods like Queens. "I love to examine the lost possibilities of guys coming out of these neighborhoods, that never knew, never went anywhere--anything they had got thrown into the wind...
...same Breslin style. Yet subtly, underneath, it's not the same Breslin. Under the tough exterior, under the quick quip and the profanity, is a legitimate interest in people...
...This Breslin seldom comes out. The fast-talk New Yorker conceals it assiduously. But it is there, and it explains the curious compassion that runs through Breslin's work. He's a tough guy, he writes strong, crude, simple prose. He likes it that way. But underneath....well.... Jimmy Breslin is a helluva firetruck ride. And it's worth hanging on to see what's under the hood...