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Aug.31.2012
From the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris I learned of a new scroll being created to commemmorate the original scroll used by Jack Kerouac when he wrote On the Road. Apparently I just made it under the deadline of Sept. 1. This was my submission.
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Aug.24.2012
The recent series of articles on this site about Anthony Fletcher, an ex-boxer framed for murder 20 years ago in Philadelphia, has created some ripples in the sludge pond we call justice, but big-time news media have laid off the story, preferring to follow more important topics such as Kim...
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Aug.21.2012
A Rough Guide To The Dark Side [Paperback], by Daniel Simpson (Zero Books; Washington, DC, August 2012) 252 Pages, $16.95.
Author Simpson, an Englishman who appeared to be on a charmed course, read history at Cambridge and moved somewhat effortlessly on to Reuters and then the New York Times, where...
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Aug.13.2012
A Romney presidency, especially if coupled with Republican control of both houses of Congress, would create such economic catastrophe that people would no longer be able to feed their puppies.
Consequently, Mitt's secret offshore...
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Aug.10.2012
Well, we gave Mitt and his people 24 hours to respond to our exclusive shocking report on his offshore puppy meat factory. As you know, in Internet time, that’s a century. Clearly they’re paralyzed with fear.
The evidence for our...
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Aug.09.2012
What worries me most about Mitt is evidence of the offshore puppy meat factory hidden in those secret tax returns. It may be an unhealthy symptom. I’m willing to forgive and forget, but first there must be repentance.
"I don't care if I lose my job for...
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Aug.05.2012
Republicans keep telling us we’re being strangled by taxes, but the figures show otherwise. Bear with me. This isn’t hard to follow.
Check on the link at the bottom of this column and you will see a historical chart of federal...
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Jul.25.2012
This 6th article in the series is key because in previous articles I have almost certainly been incorrect in my wording. Anthony says he never pulled that trigger, that he just shoved the barrel away from him, and there's plenty to back up his assertion. Consequently it was wrong to say he shot...
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Jul.19.2012
The following is taken from Brian Burnes' Readorama column today in the Kansas City Star:
Readorama: For the lesser known, book buzz is elusive
Ivan Goldman published his fourth novel this spring.
“Isaac: A Modern Fable” concerns the biblical character who, once spared being sacrificed by his...
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Jul.19.2012
Emergency personnel and journalists all chase tragedy. The difference, I can tell you from personal experience, is that medical technicians, firefighters, and cops, for example, respond by fighting whatever dark force they’re responding to. The journalist is just there to record it. If someone’s on...
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Jul.18.2012
Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel, by Ben Fountain (Ecco; 2012)
Alas, some critically acclaimed books are curiously mediocre, as I pointed out in my review of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station. But it’s important to note that sometimes much-praised titles deserve...
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Jul.09.2012
What are we to make of the news that financially besieged Evander Holyfield has been ejected from his 54,000-square-foot mega-mansion near Atlanta? Is he to be pitied or condemned for buying such a monstrosity in the first place?
Both sentiments appear to be in order.
According to...
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Jul.06.2012
Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner (Coffee House Press; 2011)
What's curious about this book is the attention and adulation it received in The New Yorker, the New York Times, and so many other high places. In fact, I first discovered the title when I read not a review, but an essay...
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Jul.03.2012
If you look through the records of ex-fighter Anthony Fletcher’s murder trial it looks more like a Marx Brothers movie than an exercise of rational jurisprudence. You almost expect someone to pop out from behind a set and declare it was all a gag.
But the vaudeville antics of that trial and all...
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Jun.22.2012
The innocence of ex-fighter Anthony Fletcher cries out to us in a muffled human voice from inside the confines of his tiny cell on Pennsylvania’s death row. Fletcher isn’t imprisoned for any crime but because correcting the injustice of locking him up...
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Isaac is . . . an overcoming-the-odds love story where the odds are seriously, seemingly insurmountably, stacked against the lovers. . . . We know something Ruth doesn’t know, and it’s painful being unable to comfort her. Any story with characters so real that we wish we could reach into the book and give them a hug demands to be read.
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—BookList Starred Review
About Ivan
New York Times-best-selling author Ivan Goldman's fourth novel Isaac: A Modern Fable was published by The Permanent Press in April 2012 and received a starred review in BookList. His novel The Barfighter was nominated as a 2009 Notable...
Causes Ivan Goldman Supports
American Heart Association
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Beit T'Shuvah Recovery Program