Maralyn Lois Polak is an American columnist, screenwriter, performance poet,

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, novelist and journalist.

Career

In collaboration with architect Benjamin Nia, Polak co-created the 25-minute documentary ''My Hometown: Preservation or Development?'' about the threatened demolition of 19th century buildings near Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square, and preservationists' efforts to save them from a developer's wrecking ball. Her journalistic career also includes a long stint with the mainstream media as nationally syndicated weekly celebrity interview columnist for

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and the now-defunct Sunday Magazine of ''

The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...

'', where she did over a thousand columns. Polak was a commentary columnist for the online news site ''

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''. Polak authored the experimental online meta-novel, ''IMAGINARY PLAYMATES/Man in Her Mind: Further Adventures of Boris and Natasha'', serialized weekly for six months on the former political-literary website FemmeSoul.Com, and a cartoon book, ''Anoushka on Her Deathbed: 101 Cartoons From the Abyss''. Polak's reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in the ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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