Paul Maliszewski
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In 1971, Clifford Irving tried to pull off the literary fraud of the century. The republication of Hoax tells how it came undone.
In 1971, Clifford Irving tried to pull off the literary fraud of the century. The republication of Hoax tells how it came undone. Hoax, The BY Clifford Irving. Miramax. Paperback, 400 pages. $14. Purchase this book: Indiebound • Amazon Clifford Irving was once a household name.
Questions for the Inventor of the Tumbleweed Tank | Paul Maliszewski
Summer 2004 There will be another war Paul Maliszewski Q. In July 1936, Popular Science published a short article heralding your invention of a spherical tank it called “a new addition to modern war machines.” The tank, compared to both a rolling ball and a giant ball as well as a piece of tumbleweed, features a hollow inner sphere that remains stationary.
On the Wilson Quarterly
The subject line worried me. “The Wilson Quarterly’s Final Happy Hour,” it said. Even the rosiest interpretation—that they’d decided, say, to discontinue their occasional get-togethers—was troubling. A link to an online invitation appeared below. The editors had completed the winter 2014 issue, a best-of collection drawn from “four decades of classic essays.” A few particulars followed and then the bad news, withheld for a bit, the way people do: “This will be our final quarterly issue,” they said.
Joice Heth
American popular culture began with the autopsy of a former slave—that, at least, is the contention of Emory professor Benjamin Reiss’s 1999 article on Joice Heth. On February 25, 1836, Heth’s corpse was cut open in New York’s City Saloon, in front of 1,500 paying spectators. The doctor, David L. Rogers, came to some interesting conclusions. Heth was not, as P. T. Barnum had claimed, 161 years old.
The Flight of the Creative Class
Dear Mayor Billings: Provo needs a premier literary magazine. In order to succeed in the twenty-first century and flourish economically, cities today must attract and retain the vital group of individuals that experts call “cultural creatives.” Only by doing so can cities build a foundation for the high-tech industries and cutting-edge innovations that will dominate the future.
September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop
Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the “continuity of life in the face of disaster” After hearing about the attacks, Jenna Piccirillo took her son Vaughan and headed to the rooftop of her Brooklyn home. (Alex Webb / Magnum Photos) By Paul Maliszewski Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe September 2003 Alex Webb and Jenna Piccirillo were strangers when he photographed her with her 3-month-old son, Vaughan, on September 11, 2001.
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