• Comic Tom Segura Books Funny

    The other night Natasha, my adult-ish daughter, asked me to accompany her to a book author event for standup comic and podcaster Tom Segura's best-selling "I"d like to Play Alone, Please" (Grand Central Publishing), a comic she is a fan of and whom she thought I would enjoy. It would take me too long to unpack all the dissonance and significance in that first sentence but suffice to say that this was so rare an event in every respect that…

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  • A Day At The Beach: On Jon Bradshaw's: "The Ocean Is Closed"

    The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations JON BRADSHAWJuly 11, 2021 By Tom Teicholz THE OCEAN IS CLOSED: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations is a new collection of work by the late Jon Bradshaw, one of the leading practitioners of magazine journalism during the 1970s and ’80s. (This is the third publication of ZE Books, which produces beautiful volumes devoted to honoring writers and their work.) The articles gathered here, thoughtfully curated and edited by Alex Belth, share one feature in…

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  • Inquiring Within With In-Q

    "What is life if it's not an adventure and an exploration internally and externally. So I choose to do that from my poetry," said In-Q, the spoken word artist whose first collection of poetry "Inquire Within" was recently published by HarperOne. "Inquire Within" gathers In-Q's rhythmic written word explorations of our humanity couched in a search for self, growth and consciousness."…See everywhere you are is where you are supposed to beSo hopefully, you"re hopelessly lost as meBecause if y... View…

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  • Carl Bernstein Delivers Inaugural Beck Lecture In Investigative Journalism

    This past Sunday October, 27, 2019 Carl Bernstein delivered the inaugural Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Lecture at Los Angeles City College (LACC), telling a standing-room-only crowd that journalism is how we "arrive at the best obtainable version of the truth."Bernstein, celebrated for breaking the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward as a young reporter at the Washington Post (and portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the movie "All The President's Men," have since served as Washington Bureau... View Original Article

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  • 'Up in the Cheap Seats' by Ron Fassler - A Fan's Notes of the Broadway Theater

    'Up in the Cheap Seats' by Ron Fassler - A Fan's No... View Original Article

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  • A Depression of One's Own: Daphne Merkin's 'This Close to Happy"

    In “This Close to Happy” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Daphne Merkin, novelist (‘Enchantment’) and essayist (‘Dreaming of Hitler’ and ‘The Fame Lunches’) has written a compelling chronicle of her traumatized childhood and an adult life marked by repeated bouts of severe depression. Although it would be easy to characterize Merkin’s memoir as part of an established genre of books about surviving depression that includes William Styron’s ‘Darkness Visible’, Andrew Solomon’s ‘The Noonday Demon’, Susanna Kaysen’s ‘Sleep Interrupted’ and Kay Redfield’s…

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  • Writer's Bone interview with Tom Teicholz

    By Lindsey Wojcik “It is hard to describe the delirium that accompanied each of those first publications. Each was some great victory and validation. Each felt like, in the words of the poet Charlie Sheen, ‘winning.’ It was as if I was climbing some imaginary mountain face and each published story was a new peak.” Tom Teicholz nails the emotions that most journalists experience during the first few years of their career in the introduction to his collection of articles,…

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  • A Book that Makes the Meaningful Beautiful: The Voices & Visions

    A Book that Makes the Meaningful Beautiful: The Voi... View Original Article

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  • Navigating Steinbeck Country

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  • Being There (and hanging out) 1978–2000

    The following is excerpted from the introduction to “Being There:Journalism 1978–2000” By Tom Teicholz (Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book). Here’s how my journalism career began: I was in my first year at Columbia Law School and was working as a Democratic Party volunteer, election night November 1977. There was a special election and, for some reason that I can no longer remember, the final votes were being tabulated in a building on 15th Street off Union Square that was…

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  • Tell the Damn Truth! A Conversation with Peter Guralnick

    PETER GURALNICK is the author of Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway, and Feel Like Going Home, about the great artists at the heart of American Roots Music; the two-part biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; as well as Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, and Searching for Robert Johnson. He has written the scripts for documentaries about Sam Phillips, Sam Cooke, and Martin Scorsese’s blues documentary Feel Like Going Home. He was in Los…

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  • 'Cult of Luxury': Kevin Kwan's Crazier Richer Asians

    'Cult of Luxury': Kevin Kwan's Crazier Richer Asian... View Original Article

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