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December 30, 2009 10:48 PM EST --
My wife and I flew on Christmas day. We entered the West Palm Beach airport at ten a.m. approximately an hour after the terrorist incident in Detroit. Having no knowledge of what was occurring, we did . . .
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December 26, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
Aside from physical characteristics, the most important characteristic that distinguishes a human being is his or her name. For most of my life, I took my name for granted and never, not once, in nearly . . .
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November 29, 2009 08:24 PM EST --
The recent “crashing” of a Presidential State Dinner by a couple of wannabe celebrity publicity hounds sends chills up my spine, especially motivated by the picture of them being greeted . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:03 AM EST --
One should be given combat pay for defending Sarah Palin in Manhattan. The other evening at a lecture, a so-called distinguished author of political tomes reflected on the declining state of conservatism . . .
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November 17, 2009 07:23 PM EST --
In my daily Manhattan world, where most of my friends and acquaintances are old style political groupies of a distinctly liberal bent, nothing gets them more riled, really riled, hyper-irritated, . . .
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November 03, 2009 08:50 AM EST --
Today, the SONY reader will begin a promotion that bundles all of Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald mysteries into a special price download that is a “must read” . . .
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October 29, 2009 08:56 AM EDT --
The so-called mainstream media, once defined as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the three major network TV stations, no . . .
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October 23, 2009 08:08 PM EDT --
Growing up in New York in the thirties and forties, there were at least eleven daily newspapers, all spouting varying opinions from both left and right perspectives. Offered by the news organizations . . .
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October 12, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
Perhaps it is merely force of habit, but I often find myself imagining what powerful public figures are really thinking as they act in ways that impact on our lives. Unlike psychologists and psychiatrists, . . .
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October 12, 2009 10:19 AM EDT --
If you are a living author or the heir of a dead author, the confusing legal battle between those who support and those who oppose the Google . . .
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October 08, 2009 08:22 AM EDT --
The new charge by the panicked book publishing industry to combine video with text and create a hybrid book, cutely named a “Vook”, reminds me of that great line from Superman comics “It’s . . .
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October 03, 2009 11:06 PM EDT --
Address before NYU Alumni after receiving award as Alumni of the Year for 2009 on October 3, 2009.
Dean Santirocco, fellow alumni, students, family and friends:
It is with great humility and some . . .
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September 29, 2009 10:33 PM EDT --
Among the many instruments in the fiction writer’s toolbox is one whose principal function is to re-imagine past events and personalities and present them in a reconstituted reality created . . .
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September 20, 2009 03:17 PM EDT --
The Race Card, a Joker
You do not have to be an expert in history to know that hatred, blind, bigoted, ignorant, cruel hatred is a pervasive element in the human psyche. Perhaps, given the bloody . . .
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September 08, 2009 09:33 PM EDT --
For authors who are elated by Google’s action to digitize all out-of-print books and pay out royalties it is, of course, a welcomed development. Despite the challenges by others who fear Google’s . . .
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August 20, 2009 02:12 PM EDT --
We have just chosen the winner and the runner-ups for the Fifth Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest . Our submissions have been steadily increasing and the aggregate of submissions in the five years . . .
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August 18, 2009 11:24 PM EDT --
At the risk of throwing a figurative match into a giant batch of kindling, I would like to weigh in on the subject of “end of life issues” that has prompted an angry response by citizens at . . .
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August 15, 2009 10:22 AM EDT --
On the surface, the surge in the popularity of e-books and the proliferation of devices on which their content can be read seems like a boon to authors. At first blush the benefits seem too good to . . .
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August 11, 2009 12:15 AM EDT --
As I grow older, I have become fascinated by “pop memory” and the difference between what I deem popular and what younger people see as popular. This has led me to contemplate where the dividing . . .
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August 06, 2009 01:43 PM EDT --
The e-book is winning. Its ultimate victory was never in doubt.
This does not mean that the printed book will disappear. It will fade out slowly as a viable mass economic enterprise as this new reading . . .
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