NY Observer > Frank McCourt http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/34584/feed Articles from Observer.com en James Joyce's Roman Candle Extinguished! http://www.observer.com/2008/symphony-space-and-wbai-part-ways-bloomsday

Today is Bloomsday, that time-honored literary commemoration involving college professors, former English majors, and Irish people of the date on which all of the action of James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place (June 16, 1904). In New York City every year since 1981, Symphony Space has hosted a marathon Bloomsday event featuring all sorts of famous actors reading from the text, and radio station WBAI has broadcast the performances live on 99.5 FM. But The New York Times brings us news that tonight, for the first time since 1981, the theater and station “will go their separate ways as a result of apprehension about obscenity and government regulation.”  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/symphony-space-and-wbai-part-ways-bloomsday#comments Arts & Culture 99.5 FM WBAI Bloomsday Frank McCourt James Joyce Stephen Colbert Symphony Space Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:48:00 -0400 Joe Pompeo 70755 at http://www.observer.com Lineup for April 30, 2008 http://www.observer.com/2008/lineup-april-30-2008

If you remember this year's White House Correspondent's Dinner, you weren't there. Felix Gillette, John Koblin, and Choire Sicha flood the zone in D.C..

Janet Silver is moving from Houghton Mifflin to Nan Talese's imprint at Doubleday. Leon Neyfakh checks in with with Ms. Talese who says, "I called Janet and she sent us a list of the authors she had worked with and the ones who’d said they wanted to come with her, if not immediately then eventually." That list may include Philip Roth and Jonathan Safran Foer. Plus: Islam observers on Wieseltier's Amis review; James Frey's PR Dream Team; Spitzer's bio; Nabokov's unfinished novel.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/lineup-april-30-2008#comments Arianna Huffington David Mamet Eliot Spitzer Frank McCourt James Frey Janet Silver Jonathan Safran Foer Nan Talese Philip Roth Salman Rushdie Tom Brokaw Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:07 -0400 Matt Haber 68564 at http://www.observer.com You Say DeLillo, I Say ... Writers' Claws Are Out at PEN Gala http://www.observer.com/2008/you-say-delillo-i-say-writers-claws-are-out-pen-gala

At around 7:45 p.m. on Monday, April 28, writer Carl Bernstein was mingling at the cocktail hour before the PEN Literary Awards at the Museum of Natural History, Coca Cola in hand, looking very healthy. “I ride a bike and listen to a lot of music,” he said. “I mostly listen to classical but also rock.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/you-say-delillo-i-say-writers-claws-are-out-pen-gala#comments Style Alex Kuczynski Don DeLillo Frank McCourt Gay Talese Michael Cunningham Nan Talese Norman Mailer Tina Brown Toni Morrison Tony Kushner Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:02:25 -0400 Spencer Morgan 68550 at http://www.observer.com Teen Draws a New Map In Warm, Tragicomic Novel http://www.observer.com/node/38617 Adolescence sucks, and then it gets worse. Skin problems proliferate; parents are hateful.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/38617#comments Arts & Culture Brooklyn Craig Gilner Frank McCourt Park Slope Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Celia Mcgee 38617 at http://www.observer.com An Old Lion Roars Again http://www.observer.com/2001/old-lion-roars-again From 1966 to 1996, a bar called the Lion's Head operatedfrom a basement-level entrance on Christophe  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2001/old-lion-roars-again#comments Media Sports Frank McCourt Glenn Tilbrook New York Yankees Nicky Perry Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:00:00 -0500 Sridhar Pappu and Sunshine Flint 45147 at http://www.observer.com Moby's Porno Ahab http://www.observer.com/node/43816 Paul Yates, director of the upcoming indie film Porno: The Movie, was born on Dec.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/43816#comments Media Frank McCourt Paul Yates Peter Katis VH1 Television Network Sun, 07 Jan 2001 19:00:00 -0500 Ian Blecher 43816 at http://www.observer.com The Road to Bali: McCourt Swims with Fishes http://www.observer.com/node/43323 On occasion, as he goes about his business as a diving instructor in Bali, Indonesia, Malachy McCour  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/43323#comments Media Bali Conor McCourt Frank McCourt Lea Thompson Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:00:00 -0400 NYO Staff 43323 at http://www.observer.com The McCourts of Limerick: Lives Too Awful for the Screen http://www.observer.com/node/42346 Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes , from a screenplay by Laura Jones and Mr.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42346#comments Arts & Culture Alan Parker Angela McCourt Frank McCourt Woody Allen Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:00:00 -0500 Andrew Sarris 42346 at http://www.observer.com Brutal Candor, the Sequel: McCourt's Irish, Stateside http://www.observer.com/node/41978 'Tis: A Memoir , by Frank McCourt.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/41978#comments Arts & Culture Angela McCourt Ellen Frey Frank McCourt Ireland Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:00:00 -0400 Terry Golway 41978 at http://www.observer.com A Journey With McCourt Of Limerick http://www.observer.com/node/40028 It was on Christmas Eve so many years ago in the hard city of Limerick that my friends Frank and Mal  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/40028#comments Angela McCourt Ellen McCourt Eugene Frank McCourt Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:00:00 -0500 Terence Patrick Moran 40028 at http://www.observer.com