[Zhang Fei]

[Excellent, excellent writer. If you want to know him I highly recommend his 1994 memoir “A Drinking Life.”]

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He was the classic wino who moonlighted as a reporter. Great journo that no one thought would live to this age. RIP.

[oh8eleven]

Great journo that no one thought would live to this age.
As Mickey Mantle (another NY icon) once said, "If I knew I was going to live this long I'd have taken better care of myself."