AuntShecky
03-23-2017, 04:44 PM
It's been a difficult week for those of us still clinging to a belief in true cultural heroes. We've lost a Nobel laureate, Derek Walcott, the Poet of the Caribbean, and Chuck Berry the Creator of rock 'n' roll. It's said that death comes "in threes," so with both sadness and a smile, let's fondly remember the most colorful American journalist and writer, Jimmy Breslin. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/business/media/jimmy-breslin-dead-ny-columnist-author.html)
Although known for both tender and scathing observations, the Pulitzer Prize winner seemed humble at times. Yet the clarity never wavered even as he occasionally released a hint about himself. In his biography of Damon Runyon, another legendary New Yorker, Jimmy Breslin commented on his own successful long run as a columnist for the NY Herald Tribune. The lines stand as good advice not only for aspiring writers, but for anybody in love with life:
"I am so delighted with myself that I could sing a song And you better do the same thing. For if you do not blow your own horn, there is no music."
--Jimmy Breslin
(October 17, 1928-March 19, 2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/business/media/jimmy-breslin-dead-ny-columnist-author.html
Although known for both tender and scathing observations, the Pulitzer Prize winner seemed humble at times. Yet the clarity never wavered even as he occasionally released a hint about himself. In his biography of Damon Runyon, another legendary New Yorker, Jimmy Breslin commented on his own successful long run as a columnist for the NY Herald Tribune. The lines stand as good advice not only for aspiring writers, but for anybody in love with life:
"I am so delighted with myself that I could sing a song And you better do the same thing. For if you do not blow your own horn, there is no music."
--Jimmy Breslin
(October 17, 1928-March 19, 2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/business/media/jimmy-breslin-dead-ny-columnist-author.html