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Sep.15.2011
Hyperion is due to release a book about Jackie Kennedy based on an interview conducted circa.a half century ago..I have never really known much about the charismatic and enigmatic beauty who married the most powerful man in the Kennedy dynasty,John F. Kennedy,who became the president of the United...
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Jul.09.2011
Page One: Inside the New York Times and the Future of Journalism
Edited by David Folkenflik
Can print journalists be objective about the future of news? Page One attempts to answer this question in 17 essays and interviews with respected and well-known writers from various positions in newspaper...
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Jul.02.2011
Were Steinbeck and Hemingway both paranoid? Was Iris Chang?
Today is the the 50th anniversary of Hemingway's suicide with a shotgun in Ketchum, Idaho. Writer-biographer A.E. Hotchner wrote about it yesterday for the New York Times. The link to it is attached below. It is fascinating reading....
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Jun.02.2011
My radio co-host Gary Lycan sent me a very interesting item today. According to published news sources:
The GORES GROUP, which controls radio syndicator WESTWOOD ONE and CD/DVD/video game distributor ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT, is bidding to buy bookstore chain BORDERS out...
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May.25.2011
By all accounts it was a great party. At least, by an account prominently featured and lavishly illustrated in a recent edition of The New York Times. The author wore glittery Gucci sunglasses, multiple tattoos, a shaved head, fashionable five-inch wedged sandals and a tie-dye skirt presumably...
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May.07.2011
Pepe Romero, arguably the world’s greatest living classical guitarist, often says that the only great music is that performed for free. Spontaneous acts of love and charity embody heart and soul and meaning that is visceral. Unselfconsciously, the Spanish born American guitarist often plays at the...
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May.04.2011
I've been a professional writer since I was 17 years old. I wrote an entire football program and got paid $7 an hour for the work. It helped me buy my first car, a sporty red Nissan. Yet at the same time, I worked FOR FREE as the writer/producer/host of my own radio talk show at the same radio...
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May.03.2011
I’m posting a New York Times article from about three weeks ago because I it’s so non-intuitive and edifying that I keep studying it. It’s called “To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons.” I enjoy reading that while computers may be able to play a mean game of Jeopardy! it’ll be a...
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Feb.08.2011
Glad to see Keith Olbermann is going with Current TV, sometime later this year. It needs something to bump up its profile. It's a noble project, providing programming gratis where it is needed, as I understand it, often to poor countries.
But it needs more viewers. I'm on its internet site, in a...
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Dec.18.2010
Michael Katakis took a great photograph of Maya Lin in 1988. It is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, but perhaps not for long.
Katakis, photographer and writer, is asking the Smithsonian Institution, which oversees the National Portrait Gallery, to return his iconic image of...
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