Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden: How Iran's Revolution Was Hijacked

Solomonia (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Mark Bowden: How Iran's Revolution Was Hijacked...

Mark Wheatley at Towson University on graphic novels

ComicMix (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009

Today's 18th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference will feature Mark Wheatley writer-artist of Lone Justice , Frankenstein Mobster and EZ Street , as well as Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958 and others. Now in its 18th year, the one-day conference at Towson University in Towson, Maryland will bring together aspiring writers from...

How Iran’s Revolution Was Hijacked

Safe Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Mark Bowden 11/19/2009 Three decades after Iranian college students overran and occupied the American Embassy in Tehran, Bowden considers how we continue to deal with that country’s revolution. America’s reductionistic way of remembering the “hostage crisis” ignores its larger significance in Iran and impedes our understanding of the political drama unfolding...

The two faces of Matthew Alexander

This Ain't Hell (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

Matthew Alexander published his book last year entitled “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq”. The book has it’s roots in a Mark Bowden article in the Atlantic. Alexander parlayed the Atlantic article into a book deal. After he wrote [...]

Room 101.

Military Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

... the subject of torture. Euphemistically [?] referred to as "coercive measures". " Mark Bowden – The Dark Art of Interrogation " The article itself. " The Truth About Torture " An interview with the author - - Mark Bowden. Again - - material from 2003 - - but NOT dated! If anything - - as germane now as it was in the days immediately...

Sunday Salon: Next Up on the TBR Pile

Musings of a Bookish Kitty (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

... a couple of months on the West Bank and shares his experiences there in his book. I plan to begin Mark Bowden's Guests of the Ayatollah, The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam today. The author impressed me with his nonfiction book Black Hawk Down about the 1993 U.S. military operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, a book I initially thought I wouldn't...

Hump Day Inspiration

KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

'LIKE HAVING ANOTHER GOVERNMENT ' I came across this crescendo of a passage at the end of a highly critical piece on the state of journalism in October's The Atlantic called "The Story Behind The Story" . The overarching message of the piece (which is a worthy read) delivers some tough truth syrup to swallow, but Mark Bowden's finale inspired me, and I hope will do the same...

The Story Behind the Story

Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

... audience for TV news is tanking, but do you ever hear them talk about that'”) but reporter Mark Bowden's Atlantic 's story is more of a smart analysis of the changing times than just boo-hooing over the facts. Bowden worked at the Inquirer for 25 years, so maybe that paper puts something in their water cooler... From Bowden's piece : In our exhausting 24/7 news...

Have ‘Los Pepes’ touched down in Mexico?

SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

... drug baron Pablo Escobar from a Latin American emperor to a cornered animal. As described in Mark Bowden’s brilliant Killing Pablo, Los Pepes, obviously enjoying access to the full intelligence file on Escobar’s vast organization, systematically murdered or chased into exile the concentric rings of Escobar’s supporting infrastructure. When he was finally gunned down,...

Scottish News: Exclusive: RAF poster boy spearheads new forces recruitment drive

The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

GOALIE and airman Mark Bowden has been chosen as the RAF's new recruitment poster boy - after his football skills helped out in Iraq.

HBO Films Grabs the Rights to Guests of the Ayatollah Novel

Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

The movie will be based on the novel by Mark Bowden.

• HBO takes on 'Ayatollah' - Variety.com

HBO takes on 'Ayatollah':TV network tackles 1979 Iranian crisis

Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Exactly 30 years after militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and began a 444-day hostage crisis that affected U.S. and global politics, HBO Films made a deal to turn the incident into a film. On Wednesday, HBO acquired "Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," by "Black Hawk Down" author Mark...

Today in Things We Wish We'd Written

Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

newsweek : “Crime of Shadows”, Mark Bowden’s Vanity Fair piece about the gray areas involved when police go trolling online for sex predators, is excellent. This is something that has always bothered me.

Curse Of The New HQ

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

... could do.For another example, take the New York Times Company. In a story on Arthur Sulzberger, Mark Bowden , "Whether owing to hubris or sheer distraction, the erection of a new headquarters often seems to spell trouble for corporations."He couldn't have hit the nail more squarely. The Times as the foundation of its business was being torn asunder. Just two years after the company...

Weekend Reading, November 6-8

The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

-- Jill Lepore on murders and American history -- Mark Bowden on the line between internet dirty-talk and internet sexual predation -- Jenny Diski on Roman Polanski and rape --If all this is too grim, check out James Poniewozik's short essay on the media's centrist bias --And, finally, one Yankee fan who is not very happy