An interview with author and journalist Ambrose Clancy
Episode description
If you read newspapers, magazines or books, you’ve likely read something written by Ambrose Clancy.
Ambrose has been an author and professional journalist for half a century, gracing major newspapers like The Village Voice, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, popular magazines like GQ and The Nation, and several beloved community periodicals on Long Island, including a long run as editor of The Shelter Island Reporter.
His third book – “My Life In Pieces: Writers, Rogues, The Road and The Rock,” chronicling his decades as a reporter and editor – is now between covers, as Ambrose would say, joining his gripping suspense novel “Blind Pilot” (about IRA terrorism) and his masterful nonfiction “The Night Line” (recalling his experiences as a cabbie in late 20th Century Manhattan).
In today’s episode, the premier professional pundit joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss his career, the evolution of news reporting over the last 50 years and the dire state of American journalism – and to rationalize his really awful poker playing.
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