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Jan.24.2013
Poetry has been declared dead – or on life support – for years. I did a search of my blog and found a dozen entries back to 2005 where I've written about some pundit burying poetry before its time. Alexandra Petri is the latest undertaker in a Washington Post op-ed in the wake of Richard...
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Dec.02.2012
Generally, the end of the year is a nail-biting time for authors.
During November and December, magazines, literary publications and major newspapers begin to roll out lists of best/notable books of the year.
Of course, as a writer, you pray and hope that your book will be on at least one of those...
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Nov.15.2012
As I was doing my morning coffee and baked good--a thoroughly enjoyable if not totally healthy routine--I also spent the usual amount of time reading through the four or five websites I go to every morning. But then I thought: Do I really need to read all of this crap?
I go to the Washington Post (...
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Jun.25.2012
My wife Laurie and I had an amazing evening at the 54th Annual Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards gala at the Biltmore Hotel in the heart of Downtown. Here are some of the photo highlights, including a very special opportunity to meet the legendary Carl Bernstein.
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May.08.2012
The Los Angeles Press Club is sponsoring a series of special events honoring the work of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The former Washington Post journalists investigated the cover-up of the Watergate break-in that led to the downfall of the presidency of Richard Nixon, four decades...
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Aug.05.2010
My satirical political novel "Pop Apocalypse" presents a future world in which the U.S. goes on an invasion spree around the world. Among other places, I had my fictional U.S. invade Iceland. It seemed like a great gag: Why would the U.S. want to invade a tiny country of 250,000 people...
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Jan.25.2010
We here at the Daily Sam have been advised by our Board of Directors—which consists of anyone who will listen to us for longer than two minutes—to post new editions of the Daily Sam blog on a regularly-scheduled basis. As a result we have decided that going forward the Daily Sam will be published...
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Jan.08.2010
This is a good moment to plug a new anthology, How They See Us: Meditations on America, edited by James Atlas.
When I was asked to write for it some time back, I thought it was a good idea. After all, haven't the Americans been proclaiming their confusion about the reasons why so much of the...
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Nov.10.2009
Muhammad and the 'closure' myth
By Naseem Rakha Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Of all the arguments in support of capital punishment, perhaps the most emotionally compelling is that it provides "closure" for the loved ones of murder victims. Prosecuting attorneys, politicians...
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Oct.31.2009
The so-called mainstream media, once defined as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the three major network TV stations, no longer have a monopoly on the opinion making process in American life.
Why belabor the...
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