Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Jay Beilis, Jeremy Simcha Garber, and Mark S. Stein (Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center) have published "Pulitzer Plagiarism: The Malamud-Beilis Connection," forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review. Here is the abstract. In writing The Fixer, Bernard Malamud plagiarized from Mendel...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It took me a few weeks to read Blake Bailey’s exhaustive and exhausting (770 pages tip to tail) biography of John Cheever. Living with Cheever even for a month was no picnic: as his wife or children would tell you. He was a depressive, conflicted alcoholic, notably “enchained within the prison of self” even for a writer: when his children read some of the thousands of pages of his...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Jay Beilis, Jeremy Simcha Garber, and Mark S. Stein (Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center) have posted Pulitzer Plagiarism: The Malamud-Beilis Connection (Cardozo Law Review de novo) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In writing The Fixer, Bernard Malamud plagiarized from...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Inclined to a certain misty timelessness, though clearly set in the years of the Great Depression, The Natural (1984) is Barry Levinson's adaptation of Bernard Malamud's acclaimed 1952 novel. The film loses a touch of Malamud's carefully constructed Arthurian-cycle symbolism, by which Roy Hobbs (played by Robert Redford) is Arthur, his lightning-born bat "Wonderboy" is the Celtic king's sword...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
London Film Festival The Coen brothers may just have made their masterpiece with this, their 14th feature and yet another hairpin-bend change of direction, which has been their trademark for their entire career. Two films back they were prowling the Texas badlands in a gruesome tale of blood and revenge in No Country for Old Men; then they turned to weightless farce in the entertaining Burn After...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
" The Natural " ( Barry Levinson , 1984) Bernard Malamud 's novel " The Natural " took America's penchant for mythologizing its sports-heroes, and combined it with Arthurian legend to create one of the great sports novels of all time. The tale of a baseball player, Roy Hobbs ( Robert Redford ) appearing in Major League Baseball, seemingly effortless of bat and glove, creating miracles...
Lorcaloca (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Eduardo C. Corral holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems are featured in a chapbook. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, , , , and . He's the interview editor for . His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from and . He was the at in 2007/08. In the fall of 2008 he was the at Bucknell University.
Blowing My Thought Wad (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Troy Kennedy Martin died yesterday. Since he was a writer and therefore didn’t appear in front of the camera his passing doesn’t seem to have been important enough to make the news, which is a great shame. Born in Scotland and educated in London and Dublin, Kennedy Martin spent his National Service as part of the peacekeeping forces stationed on Cyprus in the years leading up to Britain...
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Gordon Pfeiffer is a Delaware book collector who has an abundance of energy and enthusiasm. He recently had a bookplate designed by Ian Schoenherr http://www.ianschoenherr.com/ which was printed slowly and patiently via letterpress by Lead Graffiti http://www.leadgraffiti.com/ Bookplates with maps and globes in their design are of great interest to me so Gordon's plate is a welcome addition to my collection....
The Pulitzer Project (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Based on a true story, The Fixer is the story of a Russian Jew who, in the early 1900s, is unjustly accused of murdering a Christian boy. Bernard Malamud’s 1966 novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award . Yakov Bok has a hard luck life as a handyman, or fixer, in the Jewish Pale of Settlement. Although political reforms following the 1905 revolution gave Jews new freedoms...
The Complete Booker (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Based on a true story, The Fixer is the story of a Russian Jew who, in the early 1900s, is unjustly accused of murdering a Christian boy. Bernard Malamud’s 1966 novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award . Yakov Bok has a hard luck life as a handyman, or fixer, in the Jewish Pale of Settlement. Although political reforms following the 1905 revolution gave Jews new freedoms...
Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Barry Levinson's screen interpretation of Bernard Malamud's baseball novel The Natural has its flaws, according to critics. While Malamud's Arthurian symbolism remains, the book's downbeat ending has been scrubbed for a joyous victory, replete with fireworks and personal redemption. An...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Long before Bernard Malamud made it mythological, decades before Paul Auster's magical labyrinth sprang upon its leafy blocks, Brooklyn was home to thousands upon thousands of Irish immigrants. Seventy thousand, to be exact, many of whom came to America for work and a better quality of life.
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
June 15, 1949—Shortly after midnight, police came to a room in Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel to find Philadelphia Phillies first-baseman Eddie Waitkus bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. The only reason he didn’t die was because his assailant, an obsessed 19-year-old female fan--as strangely as she had pulled out from the closet a .22 rifle and pulled the trigger —immediately...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. ~Minot J. Savage “Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go” - Bernard Malamud “ And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. ” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning And via Gateway Pundit , a tribute video that...
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