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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.
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Simplified: William Kennedy held a reading of his novel 'Legs' at the ADCo Bar in Albany.
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.
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Simplified: The 97-year-old author raised money for a food pantry by reading from his novel 'Legs'.
Kennedy may be nearly 98 and using a walker, but don’t kid yourself.
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Simplified: Kennedy is almost 98 years old and uses a walker.
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...
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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.
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.
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Simplified: The purpose of the event was to raise money for the food pantry at Sacred Heart of Jesus church.
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...
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Simplified: Library of America will publish a volume including three of Kennedy's Albany novels with a foreword by Colum McCann.
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.
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Simplified: Kennedy was at his 185-year-old home in an Albany suburb.
And photo after photo of Dana Kennedy, his wife of 66 years, who died in 2023.
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Simplified: Dana Kennedy, William Kennedy's wife of 66 years, died in 2023.
“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...
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Simplified: 'Ironweed' is Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Francis Phelan in Depression-era Albany.
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...
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Simplified: Kennedy founded the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany using a MacArthur Fellowship.
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...
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Simplified: Kennedy's father, a WWI veteran, sang a song called 'Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon'.
Kennedy’s longtime researcher and archivist.
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Simplified: Kennedy had a longtime researcher and archivist.
ADCo Bar, short for the Albany Distilling Company, which produces a line of Ironweed whiskeys
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Simplified: ADCo Bar stands for Albany Distilling Company, maker of Ironweed whiskeys.
Patricia Fahy, New York state senator (Democrat, of course)
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Simplified: Patricia Fahy is a New York state senator (Democrat).