Work, Journalism, Heartbreak

Then - An Oral Memoir of a Writer's Life

In this episode, novelist Warren Adler brings us into the world of being a copy boy for the iconic New York Daily News in its heyday offering a stirring narrative of the great era of competitive and frenetic newspapering . He offers a colorful description as one of the very few Jews in a sea of hard drinking Irishmen and how he joined them in the alcoholic haze and the rich and bawdy joys and intensity of that indelible experience. He also describes the intense love affair that caused him to leave the News and move on. He becomes editor of the largest weekly on Long Island and describes his time there and the beginnings of his courtship with his wife, my mother.