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There is something fitting about where Malachy McCourt is calling from as I speak to him about his dark and hilarious new book Death Need Not Be Fatal. McCourt is at a Manhattan rehabilitation facility, where he will spend the next few weeks recovering from a “severe attack” of gout. “I’m doing pretty good now,” he says, sounding lively and cheerful enough given what he’s endured. Initially, he says, “The pain was so awful.” For the next few weeks, as he recovers, McCourt will spend his days moving around very carefully and doing light rehabilitative exercises. “All the things little babies love to do,” he says with a laugh. ....
Angela’s Ashes I’ve always had happy Christmases, except two. The first was Christmas in 1991, when my boss sent me to look for a printer that could on a very nonexistent chance still be open after the holiday rush on Dec. 24 and I ended up so tired I slept through Noche Buena. The second was Christmas in New York in 1998, but that was different. The plan was to check off an item on my bucket list, which was to watch the crystal ball drop at Times Square on New Year’s Eve, and if the price was Christmas Eve in New York away from my family, so be it. I had Christmas dinner with a cousin at a Moroccan restaurant in the Lower West Side and from that dinner, just a tad too late for the midnight countdown, I made it to ....