Word: limericking
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Anyone want to buy a memoir by a guy named McCourt? Silly question. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, a haunting account of his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, has been translated into 19 languages, including Turkish and Croatian, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. The book has spent 90 weeks at or near the top of the New York Times Book Review best-seller list and earned its author, 67, a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize...
Although he occasionally flashes back to the Limerick life portrayed in Angela's Ashes, Malachy chiefly recounts what happened to him after his arrival in New York City in 1952, when he was 20. He worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit and raconteur, became an off-Broadway actor, appeared with Jack Paar on the Tonight show, tended bar as part owner of an East Side joint named Malachy's and later, down on his luck, smuggled gold ingots strapped about his portly person into India...
Chad Daniel Nielsen: A Limerick...
...Limerick says she also recognizes the correlation between phantoms and slackers...
...Phantoms were not necessarily slackers, though many of them were, in my judgment, performing considerably below potential because of their disengagement," Limerick, now a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, writes in an e-mail...