The Editor's Log
Lorraine Ahearn, published author
Lorraine Ahearn, one of the best reporters and writers we've had in the 25 years I've been here, has collected some of her best columns into a book, "The Man Who Became Santa Claus and Other Winter Tales." From her Web site:
In the footsteps of veteran newspaper columnist Lorraine Ahearn, we shadow stranger-than-fiction characters in the wee hours of their lives. An Oxford-trained professor of physics wanders the sidewalks holding a mysterious box. A retiring homicide cop works his final shift on New Year’s Eve, leaving a last, cold case. Foundlings shiver under stairwells. Soldiers, homesick on Christmas, take shelter in a manger. An unrepentant street hustler, “Johnny Blaze,” lands in the hospital with a bullet to the spine. A recovered alcoholic, “Big George,” hauls the city’s 38-foot Christmas tree down a frozen mountain. An Irish nun, Sister Gabriel, dies on the shortest day of the year, but she does not go alone.
Finally, in the last place anyone shops for the unexpected — a suburban mall — an unemployed nuclear power plant foreman answers an ad for a “Santa Wanted.” And by some strange alchemy, he puts on the red suit and becomes the genuine article.
She had a book signing at the Broach Theatre last night that pulled in a crowd. (I was there for you, Lorraine, not for the hor d'overes and liquor, I swear.)
It's a great Christmas present. Here's how to buy a copy. Bring it down to the paper and she'll sign it.
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