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Pope Leo XIV is expected to host several film stars and directors at an event on Nov. 15 as part of the Roman Catholic Church Jubilee. 0.900

Simplified: Pope Leo XIV will host film stars and directors at an event on November 15 as part of the Roman Catholic Church Jubilee.

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Patricia Fahy, New York state senator (Democrat, of course) 0.900

Simplified: Patricia Fahy is a New York state senator (Democrat).

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4 months ago
ADCo Bar, short for the Albany Distilling Company, which produces a line of Ironweed whiskeys 0.900

Simplified: ADCo Bar stands for Albany Distilling Company, maker of Ironweed whiskeys.

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Kennedy’s longtime researcher and archivist. 0.900

Simplified: Kennedy had a longtime researcher and archivist.

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His father, a World War I veteran who later kept the books for a gambling operation, occasionally sang a song from that war called “Arrah Go On, I’m Gonna Go Back to Oregon,” and now here was his 97-y... 0.900

Simplified: Kennedy's father, a WWI veteran, sang a song called 'Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon'.

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Kennedy used part of a sizable MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award to establish the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany, attracting thousands of writers and transforming the... 0.900

Simplified: Kennedy founded the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany using a MacArthur Fellowship.

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“Ironweed,” Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983 masterpiece, follows the Depression-era Albany ramblings of Francis Phelan, a former baseball player who hit the skids after accidentally dropping and... 0.900

Simplified: 'Ironweed' is Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Francis Phelan in Depression-era Albany.

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And photo after photo of Dana Kennedy, his wife of 66 years, who died in 2023. 0.900

Simplified: Dana Kennedy, William Kennedy's wife of 66 years, died in 2023.

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Hours earlier, Kennedy was ensconced in a lounge chair at his rambling, 185-year-old home in an Albany suburb, thin and debonair, sipping wine and telling stories. 0.900

Simplified: Kennedy was at his 185-year-old home in an Albany suburb.

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Library of America, which will be publishing a volume in the spring that includes three of his Albany novels (“Legs,” “Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game” and “Ironweed”) with a foreword by the novelist Col... 0.900

👤 Colum McCann

Simplified: Library of America will publish a volume including three of Kennedy's Albany novels with a foreword by Colum McCann.

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4 months ago
The event’s stated purpose was to raise money for the food pantry at Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic church in the North Albany neighborhood where Kennedy was once an altar boy. 0.900

Simplified: The purpose of the event was to raise money for the food pantry at Sacred Heart of Jesus church.

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4 months ago
The occasion was a marathon reading of his novel “Legs,” about the dapper gangster Jack Diamond, who died in an Albany rooming house in 1931 from lead poisoning, brought on by three bullets to the hea... 0.900

Simplified: The event was a reading of 'Legs', a novel about Jack Diamond, who died in Albany in 1931 from lead poisoning after being shot.

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4 months ago
Kennedy may be nearly 98 and using a walker, but don’t kid yourself. 0.900

Simplified: Kennedy is almost 98 years old and uses a walker.

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4 months ago
The author, 97, raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his celebrated Albany cycle with half a century ago. 0.900

Simplified: The 97-year-old author raised money for a food pantry by reading from his novel 'Legs'.

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William Kennedy went to the ADCo Bar & Bottle Shop in Albany, where he took part in a marathon reading of “Legs,” his 1975 novel. 0.900

Simplified: William Kennedy held a reading of his novel 'Legs' at the ADCo Bar in Albany.

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4 months ago
Mike Hale is a television critic for The Times. 1.000

Simplified: Mike Hale writes for The Times.

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But “The Beast in Me” did not get moving until Howard Gordon, a developer of “Homeland” (and another “X-Files” alumnus), came aboard several years later as showrunner and reworked the story. 0.900

Simplified: Howard Gordon became the showrunner for "The Beast in Me" and reworked the story.

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4 months ago
Gabe Rotter, who worked on various Chris Carter projects including the final season of “The X-Files,” wrote the first version of the pilot more than five years ago and is credited as the show’s creato... 0.900

Simplified: Gabe Rotter wrote the first version of the pilot for "The Beast in Me" more than five years ago.

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4 months ago
When Nile Jarvis (Rhys), a poor little rich boy suspected of killing his first wife, moves into the much bigger house across the road, she is appalled but senses that a new book may have fallen into h... 0.900

Simplified: Nile Jarvis moves across the road from Aggie Wiggs.

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Consumed by hatred and guilt, Wiggs has driven away her ex-wife (Natalie Morales) and now seethes by herself in her big, spooky Long Island house, whose backed-up plumbing manifests her blocked psyche... 0.900

Simplified: Aggie Wiggs has driven away her ex-wife, Natalie Morales, and lives alone in a spooky Long Island house.

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