... of Bay Ridge, the sixth of eight children of Newfoundland-born ironworker Fred Doyle. His father’s friends were mostly ironworkers and most were former Newfoundlanders who left home for New York in the middle of the last century. They said goodbye to a place of high un­employment and dismal prospects to risk life and limb raising the steel columns and beams that formed the ...

... David and Ruth Ellwand (103 pp.) first line: "I walk on the Downs in the footsteps of Conan Doyle and Kipling." We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle (219 pp.) stories: Uncle Chaim ... (819 pp.) first line (of the prologue): "1893 / London / The night was cold and dismal, and out on the Thames, the rivermen cursed their luck." first line (of the first chapter): " ...