Denis Hamill is the author of ten novels, including two previous novels featuring Bobby Emmet--"3 Quarters" and "Throwing 7's, " as well as "Fork in the Road, Long Time Gone, Sins of Two Fathers, " and his Brooklyn Christmas fable, "Empty Stockings." He currently writes a column for the "New York Daily News, " and he has been a columnist for "New York" magazine, the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner, " and the "Boston Herald American. "