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...Joseph Towle, a priest in the Bronx, N.Y., usually hears confessions, but recently he offered up a jaw-dropping one of his own. Thirteen years ago, a man named Jesus Fornes told Father Towle he had committed a murder, one for which two innocent men had been convicted. Towle disclosed last month that Fornes, now dead, was the killer, and urged that the men--who had served 13 years in prison--be freed...
...After three hits (the third was Doc Pomus? "Plain Jane"), Darin could have been pegged as a smarter Bronx version of Frankie Avalon and other Philadelphia Italians Clark was promoting; or maybe a less handsome relative of teen throb James Darren. But Bobby had two things they didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine...
...informed me that we would be spending Lesson Two driving from lower Manhattan to the Bronx and back. The Bronx? I laughed. He wasn’t kidding...
When some of them took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
...fraudulent charges consisted of two ATM visits, one for $500 and one for $400.75. I was impressed, not only that Bronx ATMs have quarters, but also that my thief was getting just enough to meet his needs. The other Joel Stein also made two visits to a Bronx Mobil station, for $19.56 and $21. I'm guessing cigarettes and beer. The Bronx me is a lot tougher...