Conversation In A Dead Language: Interview with Lee Siegel

This one appeared first on Rediff.com. Haven’t changed a word. Suggest you don’t either. :~) Oh, one more thing. If you haven’t read Glen David Gold’s Carter Beats the Devil, then you must. It isn’t by Lee Siegel but it’s about magic, magicians, and a beautifully written book, marred only by a somewhat stagey (but not entirely unsatisfactory) ending. Why am I mentioning it here? Who the hell knows. It’s a book, ain’t it? About... Read More

When Paper-Nazis attack: The Media and Selective Celeb-Bashing

This is a reprint of one of my old columns, specifically one of my BRAND BAAJA columns from an advertising-marketing publication called The Brief. In terms of its theme, it still has relevance. You could replace Jeffrey Archer’s name with almost any other celeb who’s currently being bashed for reasons only the media know best. The column is reprinted exactly as it originally appeared. Only the post-heading above is new. In case you didn’t get it, the term ‘paper... Read More