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“No more than a wisp of dust” Ray Sharkey was the guy who got away…who fled the desolation that dragged so many of us into early graves....
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I of V I fly up for a family wedding held in one of the glittery Bensonhurst halls Italian-Americans love. Think “Le Grand,” “Il Paradis...
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When I was a child, Gloria, my mother, would sing to me and tell stories of my grandfather Jim Jordan, a pro boxer, and his six brothe... -
The car exploded, tires squealing, off the light at 6th Street and Third Avenue, racing parallel to the Gowanus Canal, flying over the bri...
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Looking back, it seems I'd waited my whole life for the call. It came late in the night, the Friday after Thanksgiving, my brother Greg...
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"In nomine Patris et Filio et Spiritu Sanctus." "A-men." Sister Mary Malachy crosses herself as she intones the praye...
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Ernie Palmieri: I Hear You Singing In the Wire Ernie Palmieri sat by the radiators in Sister Mary Malachy’s haunted classroom. I sat a fe...
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I of IV I was 20-years-old, on spring break. Lounging on Miami-or some Gulf Coast beach was as alien to me as the stars. I had to work. “...
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Gloria could cook, but she couldn't bake. Why would she with Cioffi’s just a few blocks past the Gowanus o...
About Me
- vincent coppola
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Vince Coppola spent ten years at Newsweek. He was lead reporter in Newsweek's early coverage of the AIDS epidemic and the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger. He has written three non-fiction books, "The Sicilian Judge," "Uneasy Warriors/The Perilous Journey of the Green Berets" and "Dragons of God/A Journey Through Far-Right America." He has written for Tina Brown's Talk, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Worth, Atlanta. Coppola co-wrote "Grandfathered In" with Dr. Stan Winokur. In 2003, He wrote "Risk Revolution" with CEO Derek Smith, a road map for risk reduction and prudent policy-making in the Information Age. Coppola's memoir of his mother's battle against cancer was awarded a William Allen White Gold Medal by the University of Kansas. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has two children, Gabrielle,Brown University, a business reporter for Bloomberg in Sao Paulo, and Thomas, a pre-med student and Iraq War vet at Hamilton College.