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Have You Hugged a Freelance Writer Today?
Someone just posted on Facebook that it’s National Freelance Writers Appreciation Week. This is a thing? Being a freelance writer, I wish someone had sent me the memo. So I could prepare to be...
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The Feh List. (No, That’s Not a Typo)
It’s Mock Friday! You didn’t know it’s Mock Friday? Perhaps that’s because I just made it up. Now be quiet and read on. You know who has the easiest job in the history of journalism? It’s Samantha...
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A Tweetorial
When I decided to see what Twitter was all about some years ago, a tech savvy friend enthusiastically described it to me this way: It’s like a big cocktail party, where everyone is having interesting...
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What do Jerry Seinfeld, Judd Apatow, Jim Breuer, Carol Leifer & Eddie Murphy...
“I must have written for well over fifty of those guys – every Dickie, Mickey, Morty, Freddie and Lee that ever lived,” Alan Zweibel quipped of his early days writing for Catskills comics. In addition...
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My Week with David Rakoff
Much like David Rakoff’s starry fantasy of befriending Bette Midler on a film set, returning to “her rambling apartment. It will be the maid’s night off and we’ll eat leftovers from the icebox: cold...
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My “Living, Out Loud” Essay Reading Tour
In case you were wondering how my essay reading tour is going (and I know you were!), here you go:
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It Happens: Newspaper…Book…National Column.
A story: Back in 2000, as a freelance writer I was retained by Newsday for a year-long series that was to run in the paper every day. They were calling it “Names of New York.” It involved research...
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