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...music. He made the trip from Grub Street toward Easy Street by way of Hollywood: the film version of his 1976 New York magazine story about Brooklyn disco culture was a box office smash. Cohn's subsequent New York cover was "24 Hours on 42nd Street," a lurid first-person account of a day and night spent swallowing street drugs amid the sexual sleaze of Times Square...
Richardson's selection featured first-person accounts of three survivors of the Holocaust contrasted by the monologue of a German army oficer who said he was only guilty of following orders for his part in the atrocities...
...evidence, including a prewritten, first-person SPORTS ILLUSTRATED account, suggested the evening was pure melodrama. But Leonard insisted his decision to retire was not finally made until right there in the ring, when, looking directly at Middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler and rhapsodizing over what a splendid match they would make, he said, "Unfortunately, it will never happen...
With Different Seasons the latest in the author's string of best-sellers, King puts forth the effort. Technically, the book is a collection of four novellas, each written in separate periods following the completion of specific novels. In this book, King cuts the bogeymen, employs a first-person narrative, and restricts the imagery...
This startling sensitivity for criminals and others beset with problems is drawn with equal explicitness on the cuts which follow "Nebraska." An unemployed autoworker in the song "Johnny 99" kills someone in a drunken stupor, for which he gets a 99-year prison term. The first-person explanation...