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The Original Playboy Star: An Interview With Joe Namath's Biographernew
Biographer Mark Kriegel tells how he pursued the story of Joe Namath, the football star who was both old-school tough guy and new-fangled hustler. In late middle age, Namath found himself in pain and alone with a bottle.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
09-17-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Doctor Gets Brandednew
Perhaps there are those who log on daily to ESPN.com and dig up columns by former print journalism mavens like Hunter S. Thompson. More likely, ESPN could repackage Ernest Hemingway for a live web chat and few wanderers among the cluttered sports media landscape would take notice.
New York Press |
Spike Vrusho |
09-08-2004 |
Nonfiction
911 Omissions: Who Needs Henry Kissinger, After All?new
The only way to explain the best-seller status of this dry, stiff and cynical book is to understand the 9/11 disaster as a national trauma so intense that the co-dependent American family is still reaching for anything that will assure it.
New York Press |
Sander Hicks |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Illustrator at War: A Q&A With Steve Brodnernew
The cartoonist's trademark style is perhaps best described as psychedelic-progressive. If Howard Zinn ever enjoyed peyote visions, they'd likely find a home in Brodner's nightmarish political dreamscapes.
New York Press |
Alexander Zaitchik |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Last Great Poet of Eastern Europe Dies at 93new
Czeslaw Milosz's poetry -- scattered over 20 books, a lifework for which he won the Nobel Prize -- adumbrated the moral and political strife of a Europe in ruin.
New York Press |
Joshua Cohen |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Poet Goes Straight: Cop's Daughter Slips and Rises Back Upnew
Once a strung-out heroin addict, poet Jackie Sheeler runs a Friday-night open mic for poetry readings at the Cornelius St. Cafe and started poetz.com to help neophyte writers.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
08-25-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
