BXW READ ALL OVER

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When They Were Read All Over: Breslin and Beyond Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings’

The Freaks Came Out to Write’ celebrate the irreverent voices that once dominated New York City journalism. 

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/when-they-were-read-all-over-bre…

He was known for his newspaper columns that became the brash embodiment of the street-smart New Yorker, chronicling wise guys and big-city power brokers but always offered a sympathetic viewpoint of the white working-class people of New York City, and was awarded the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens"

JB Notes https://billmoyers.com/story/a-couple-of-things-about-jimmy-breslin/

https://muckrack.com/jimmy-breslin/articles