LISTEN: The Different Man Was No Joke

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Joe Flaherty was a dock employee and highschool dropout on the flawed aspect of 30 when he discovered an surprising author’s life starting as a columnist for the Village Voice. A pair years later, he was working the 51st State marketing campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of town’s most well-known writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform constructed across the thought of giving New Yorkers extra management of their very own neighborhoods and slogans together with “No Extra Bullshit” and “The Different Guys Are The Joke.” 

Liam Flaherty poses for a portrait in the FAQ NYC podcast room.
Liam Flaherty is the son of Mailer-Breslin ’69bcampaign supervisor Joe Flaherty. Credit score: Harry Siegel/THE CITY

Joe’s son Liam joins the podcast to speak concerning the very totally different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father achieved in his brief life earlier than succumbing to prostate most cancers at simply 47 years previous, what his dad would make of Mamdani’s new period, and rather more.

A Mailer-Breslin campaign poster

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