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...parole after being convicted of trying to have his boss killed, a charge St. Martin's said it had confirmed. Hatfield initially maintained that he was being confused with someone of the same name, but then stopped commenting, on his lawyers' advice. Maybe he could write a memoir instead: Unfortunate...
...McCourt's ear for dialect is so flawless that I didn't notice he was reading from his second book. His talent first appeared in Angela's Ashes, the hugely successful childhood memoir that won a Pulitzer Prize. 'Tis is the sequel to that story, beginning with McCourt's journey to America on the MS Irish Oak in 1949, and ending in Belfast, 1985. In between, we experience first-hand the trials and triumphs of an American immigrant, from his days sweeping the lobby of the Biltmore hotel to striding down the halls of Stuyvesant as a respected teacher...
Stephen J. Dubner is the author of Turbulent Souls, a family memoir...
...were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times that the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press; 288 pages; $24), Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto...
...repertoire. He stars in a children's film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, scheduled for release next year. Also awaiting release is South of Heaven, West of Hell, also starring his daughter Bridget Fonda, Vincent Gallo, Vince Vaughn, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Bob Thornton. And in last year's memoir Don't Tell Dad, Peter Fonda recollects...