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David Hirshey
David Hirshey is an American book editor and a contributing editor at ''Esquire.'' The senior vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins from 1998-2016, he was previously an editor for the ''New Yorker''. Among others, he has worked with authors including Richard Ben Cramer, Frederick Exley, Richard Ford, Norman Mailer and David Halberstam. Hirshey wrote the weekly soccer column "Kicking and Screaming" for ESPN.com from 2010-2017. In 2018, he became Writer-at-Large for the soccer magazine ''Eight by Eight.'' An expert on soccer, Hirshey co-wrote ''The ESPN World Cup Companion: Everything You Need To Know About The Planet's Biggest Sports Event'' and appeared in the 2006 documentary '' Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos''. He has written extensively on the sport for ''The New York Times'', ''Deadspin'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''The Washington Post.'' Early life and education Hirshey was born in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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New York Cosmos (1971–1985) , a proposed stadium for the modern club which was unveiled in January 2013 and abandoned in December 2016.
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New York Cosmos may refer to * New York Cosmos (1970–1985), a team in the North American Soccer League (then the top-tier soccer league in the United States and Canada) * New York Cosmos (2010), a team playing since 2020 in the National Independent Soccer Association (a third-tier soccer league in the United States and Canada) that was formed in 2010 and named for the original team * New York Cosmos B, the B team of the 2010 incarnation of the soccer club * New York Cosmos Stadium The New York Cosmos Stadium was a proposed 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium and multipurpose facility. It was to be located in the New York metropolitan area in Nassau County, just over the city border. Plans were submitted to New York's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Finkel
Michael Finkel (born 1969) is a journalist and memoirist, who has written the books ''True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa'' (2005) and ''The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit'' (2017). Career Finkel was a writer for ''The New York Times'' until 2002, when he was discovered to have used interviews with multiple people to create a composite protagonist, Youssouf Malé, for a story he had written on the Arabic slave trade within Africa, "Is Youssouf Malé A Slave?" Finkel had originally pitched a child slavery story to ''The New York Times'', but his subsequent reporting did not uncover proof of enslavement, although he did encounter teenagers working for meager wages in difficult conditions. The story Finkel submitted purported to profile an adolescent West African boy, Youssouf Malé, who sold himself into slavery on a cocoa plantation in the Ivory Coast. The story as published included photographs, including one described as being that of Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Seymour may refer to: Places Australia *Seymour, Victoria, a township *Electoral district of Seymour, a former electoral district in Victoria *Rural City of Seymour, a former local government area in Victoria *Seymour, Tasmania, a locality Canada * Seymour Range, a mountain range in British Columbia * Mount Seymour, British Columbia * Seymour River (Burrard Inlet), British Columbia * Seymour River (Shuswap Lake), British Columbia * Seymour Inlet, British Columbia * Seymour Narrows, British Columbia * Seymour Island (Nunavut) * Seymour Township, Ontario United States * Seymour, Connecticut, a town * Seymour, Illinois, a census-designated place * Seymour, Indiana, a city * Seymour, Iowa, a city * Seymour, Missouri, a city * Seymour, Tennessee, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Seymour, Texas, a city * Seymour, Wisconsin (other) Elsewhere * Seymour Island, off the tip of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula * Seymour, Eastern Cape, Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year. Active author categories Robert L. Fish Memorial Award The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was established in 1984 to honor the best first mystery short story by an American author. The winners are listed below. Lilian Jackson Braun Award The Lilian Jackson Braun Award was established to honor Lilian Jackson Braun and is presented in the "best full-length, contemporary cozy mystery as submitted to and selected by a special MWA committee." Sue Grafton Memorial Award The Sue Grafton Memorial Award was established in 2019 to honor Sue Grafton and is presented to "the best novel in a series featuring a female protagonist." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forty-Year Search For My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Kurzweil
Allen Kurzweil (born December 16, 1960) is an American novelist, journalist, editor, and lecturer. He is the author of four works of fiction, most notably ''A Case of Curiosities'', as well as a memoir ''Whipping Boy''. He is also the co-inventor, with his son Max, of ''Potato Chip Science'', an eco-friendly experiment kit for grade schoolers. He is a cousin of Ray Kurzweil and brother of Vivien Schmidt. __TOC__ Life and career The son of Viennese Jewish refugees, Kurzweil was raised in Europe and the United States. Educated at Aiglon College, Yale University and the Sapienza University of Rome, University of Rome, he worked for ten years as a journalist in France, Italy, and Australia before settling in the United States. His first novel, ''A Case of Curiosities'' (1992), earned literary honors in England, Ireland, Italy, and France. His second novel, ''The Grand Complication'', was published in 2001. Both works were included in The New York Times annual list of notable books. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN International
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous International PEN centers in over 100 countries. Other goals included: to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and world culture; to fight for freedom of expression; and to act as a powerful voice on behalf of writers harassed, imprisoned and sometimes killed for their views. History The first PEN Club was founded at the Florence Restaurant in London on October 5, 1921, by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, with John Galsworthy as its first president. Its first members included Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Craig, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. PEN originally stood for "Poets, Essayists, Novelists", but now stands for "Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists", and includes writers of any form of literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Barry (reporter)
Dan Barry (born 1958) is a longtime reporter and columnist for ''The New York Times''. He is the author of five books, including ''This Land: America, Lost and Found'', a collection of his national columns for ''The Times'' that was published in 2018. Biography Barry, whose father was from Brooklyn and whose mother was from County Galway, Ireland, was born in Queens, N.Y., and raised in Deer Park, N.Y. He graduated from St. Anthony's High School (now in Huntington, N.Y.) in 1976, when it was an all-boys high school in Smithtown, N.Y. His experiences at St. Anthony's figure in his memoir, ''Pull Me Up''. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and received a master's degree in journalism from New York University. In 1983, after years working as a delicatessen clerk and ditch digger, Barry joined ''The Journal Inquirer'' in Manchester, Conn., as a reporter, and moved to the ''Providence Journal-Bulletin'' in 1987. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Silverman was a writer and performer on ''Saturday Night Live'', and she starred in and produced ''The Sarah Silverman Program'', which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She released an autobiography ''The Bedwetter'' in 2010. She also appeared in other television programs, such as ''Mr. Show'' and '' V.I.P.'' and starred in films, including ''Who's the Caboose?'' (1997), '' School of Rock'' (2003), ''Wreck-It Ralph'' (2012), '' A Million Ways to Die in the West'' (2014) and '' Ralph Breaks the Internet'' (2018). In 2015, she starred in the drama ''I Smile Back'', for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. During the 2016 election, she became increasingly politically active; she initially campaigne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy (born December 26, 1951) is an American sportswriter and feature writer, formerly with ''The Washington Post''. She writes primarily about baseball. Biography Jane Leavy was born December 26, 1951. She is originally from Roslyn, New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1974 and from Columbia University School of Journalism in 1976. She is the author of the 1990 comic novel ''Squeeze Play'', which was called "the best novel ever written about baseball" by ''Entertainment Weekly''. She also wrote a best-selling 2002 biography ''Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy'' about the great Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax. In 2010, she published ''The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood'', an extensive chronicle of Mantle's off-field behavior. The book was based on interviews she had with the late Yankee slugger. Excerpts from the book have been published in ''Sports Illustrated'' and the ''New York Daily News''. ''The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "the Kid", "the Splendid Splinter", and "The Thumper", Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history and to date is the last player to hit over .400 in a season. Williams was a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time recipient of the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award, a six-time AL batting champion, and a two-time Triple Crown winner. He finished his playing career with a .344 batting average, 521 home runs, and a .482 on-base percentage, the highest of all time. His career batting average is the highest of any MLB player whose career was played primarily in the live-ball era, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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