"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Thursday, August 05, 2004 The racy 1920s tabloidNew York Evening Graphic and its eccentric publisher, Bernarr MacFadden, who changed his first name to sound more like a lion's roar, are colorfully recalled by William Bryk in the NY Sun.
Particularly funny is the description of the sensational divorce case coverage of Peaches, the woof-woofing tycoon and the honking gander. My favorite tabloid headline: "I Murdered My Wife Because She Cooked Fishballs for Dinner. I Told Her I Would Never Eat Them Again but She Defied Me to the End."
The personal is not the political, says the inimitable Lileks, via the invaluable Terry Teachout.
Compelling writer Paul Fussell, noted for his literary study of the Great War, and whose Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Class I recommend, is interviewed in The Guardian.
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