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BoxingInsider.com Writer Ivan G. Goldman Wins 2 Coveted Writing Awards

Coming in June from Potomac Books
Mar.26.2013
BoxingInsider.com Writer Ivan G. Goldman Wins 2 Coveted Writing Awards

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Ivan's Latest Blogs

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May.17.2013 - 9:31 am
Advance Praise for Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
  Sick Justice will be released in June by Potomac Books. It can be prepurchased at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and will be available in better bookstores everywhere. “...
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Feb.15.2013 - 1:09 am
My Personal Cruise-Ship Experience -- a Stink-out
You know that nightmare cruise on the Carnival ship of horrors that was finally towed into Mobile with a boatload of malfunctions? Power down? Food scarce and awful?* Toilets...
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Jan.18.2013 - 10:47 pm
FREE ANTHONY FLETCHER - LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE
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You may or may not be familiar with the case of ex Philadelphia fighter Anthony Fletcher. Framed more than twenty years ago for murder, he remains on death row even though the...
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Jan.16.2013 - 3:28 pm
Muhammad Ali: His Life as Demon, Saint & Greatest Heavyweight
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Muhammad Ali, born Jan. 17, 1941, celebrates his 71st birthday as a worldwide symbol of peace and goodness, a kind of Mother Teresa figure who’s adored by all. His image has seen...
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Comments from Ivan

Jun.22.2012 - 12:32 pm
In response to: The ugly time and bumper stickers
Bumper sticker I spotted in L.A. last week
'Did you vote for Obama? Thanks Asshole.' It was on a beat-up Toyota, maybe 20 years old, and the driver was an old...
May.08.2012 - 2:19 pm
In response to: A Book That Changed My Life: Tribal Leadership
Teams vs. cubicles: some thoughts
Interesting ideas. But if employers want teamwork, why do they isolate their employees in gray, closed spaces where...
Apr.25.2012 - 8:57 pm
In response to: AFTER TERRORISM, THE NEXT CRUSADE: AFRICA
Bush Junior
Right. He was a real foreign policy genius except maybe for that Shiite-Sunni thing he couldn't get straight and tons...
Apr.09.2012 - 12:15 pm
In response to: An Open Letter to Dara-Lynn Weiss, Who Put Her 7-Year-Old on a Diet, Described Every Gory Detail in Vogue, & Now Has a Book Deal
The Whole Thing Sounds Screwy
Obesity is a health concern, but it seems this mother should have taken steps long before she had a 90-some-pound 6-...
Apr.09.2012 - 8:57 am
In response to: An Open Letter to Dara-Lynn Weiss, Who Put Her 7-Year-Old on a Diet, Described Every Gory Detail in Vogue, & Now Has a Book Deal
Ms. Weiss's next book . . .
. . . could be about her marketing plan for the next child to come along. It could be titled, 'How I Drove My Child...

Writing

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Article: CASTE AND CLASS ON THE WASHINGTON POST
Article: THE RING IS COUNTED OUT: Boxing’s duplicity devours an honest magazine, By Ivan G. Goldman
Article: Caste and class at The Washington Post: for one reporter, getting to the top wasn't enough.

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Apr.07.2012
ISAAC: A MODERN FABLE
Published by New York Journal of Books
  Isaac is a witty, dazzlingly intellectual story, an exploration of morality in the contemporary world, a true Modern Fable which, as one might expect from the author...
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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. ”
—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...
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Causes Ivan Goldman Supports

American Heart Association

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Beit T'Shuvah Recovery Program