Blog – Page 54 – Jamie Malanowski

ROGER EBERT, LEVON HELM, RODRIGUEZ: RETURN OF THE STOIC HERO?

1 Comment / Media, Music, Pop Culture / By stefan

Originally published in The Huffington Post on April 9, 2013: Anyone who spends any time watching cable television is bound to develop a fairly depressed view of the American character. Vain housewives, self-absorbed designers, responsibility-denying restauranteurs, narcissistic chefs, fascistic dance teachers, scheming survivors, snide judges–altogether we see a whining, insecure, blame-shifting, easily-insulted mass of humanity …

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A TIP OF THE HAT FROM VANITY FAIR

Leave a Comment / Civil war, Media, Music / By stefan

Written by Juli Weiner, encouraged by Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair plugged my book this week with an article called “The Book of Levon Celebrates the Man in the Band.” Very nice indeed. Thanks to one and all. Here’s how it reads: “Nearly a year after the death of Levon Helm, the Band’s twangy and tender-hearted …

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MY INTERVIEW WITH SHANE SMITH

CAPTURED!

Leave a Comment / Art, Personal / By stefan

My cousin Walt King, gifted artist and member of the faculty of the Columbus College of Art and Design, has turned me into art. I’m thrilled. Thanks, Walt!

THE SOUTHWEST PHILLY FLOATER!

HENRY BROMELL, 1947-2013

Leave a Comment / Books & Authors, Media, Movies, Pop Culture, Television / By stefan

Three of the most interesting hours of my life were spent in the company of Henry Bromell, who died the other day at the age of 65. Henry was a writer–of short stories and television scripts mostly, but also of an also of a novel and of screenplays. Ann Kolson had assigned me to write …

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APRIL 7th–CAN’T WAIT!

Leave a Comment / Media, Television / By stefan

EZRA KLEIN DOESN’T UNDERSTAND HIS OWN PROFESSION

SIX WHO FAILED

Leave a Comment / Civil war, History, Media / By stefan

For those of you who may have lain awake at night wondering “Geez, were there six men who could have prevented the Civil war from becoming a murderous army vs. army conflagration, please avail yourself of the opportunity to pick up the April issue of The Civil War Times, and read my article “Six Men …

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TRICKY NICK

Leave a Comment / Books & Authors, Politics / By stefan

Having spent all that (mostly enjoyable) time in graduate school reading The Prince, I was delighted to see that Professor Stephen J. Milner of the University of Manchester has discovered the arrest warrant for Niccolò Machiavelli hidden away in a state archive. The 500-years-old document was the catalyst for Machiavelli’s writing The Prince. When the …

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