J. R. Moehringer
J. R. Moehringer
John Joseph "J.R." Moehringeris an American novelist and journalist. In 2000 he won the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth7 December 1964
CountryUnited States of America
italian yankees rich-or-poor
In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.
teenager boys men
Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.
men boys be-a-man
To be a man, a boy must see a man
book
Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.
believe embrace ends
While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.