Frank McCourt's wee brother Malachy was actually famous long before "Angela's Ashes" was even in draft form. Just a few years after Frank paid his passage from Limerick, Malachy was a fixture on the New York scene. He'd invented what he claims was the first singles bar, appeared in plays around the city, and become a regular guest with a pioneer late night television Jack Paar. Malachy McCourt chronicles his days in New York in his autobiography "A Monk Swimming." He also tells how he things eventually went horribly wrong, and he ended up a gold smuggler. He took what would now be seen as incredible risks, both with the international authorities and in the houses of ill-repute in Bombay. McCourt told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr the humour laced through his book is born of tragedy...