Posts Tagged ‘writer’

Norton Juster, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ writer dies at 91

Norton Juster, a Jewish architect and children’s book writer best known for his classic wordplay-filled novel “The Phantom Tollbooth,” died Monday. He was 91. “The Phantom Tollbooth,” published in 1961, follows a bored boy named Milo who drives a magical toy car through a fantasy land full of numbers, puns and other lessons. It was […]

British Actor and Writer Stephen Fry Decries World ‘Increasingly Full of Antisemitic Words and Actions’

Stephen Fry. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Famed British actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry addressed the alarming and sad reality of antisemitism against Jews worldwide in a book review that was publicized on social media last week. Fry wrote that as a Jew, or self-described “half-Jew,” “a truth that most of us are too ashamed, or […]

Guardian writer claims he was let go for ‘joke’ tweet against US aid to Israel

A longtime contributor to The Guardian said the newspaper has stopped publishing his op-eds because of a tweet in which he joked that the US Congress is legally obligated to make “buying weapons for Israel” a part of any spending. Nathan Robinson, 30, wrote Wednesday on his website Current Affairs that the British daily’s US […]

Leftist Guardian Writer Who Said ‘There Is No Cancel Culture’ Gets Canceled For Criticizing Israel

A leftist Guardian writer who proclaimed “there is no cancel culture” just got canceled himself for tweeting a sarcastic joke criticizing US military aid to Israel. There is no cancel culture. The fastest way to get a book deal in this country is to whine about cancel culture. Every single one of these people ends […]

LA Times Writer Compares Trump Supporting Neighbors To Nazi Sympathizers

An LA Times columnist has been blasted for comparing her Trump-supporting neighbors to Nazi sympathizers and hezbollah. Virginia Heffernan’s driveway was cleared of snow by her Trump-supporting neighbors, but instead of thanking them she wrote an op-ed noting that even the Nazis were found to be occasionally polite. RT reports: In a piece in the […]

Judge Korman Sets Feb. 10 Hearing in Criminal Case of New York Times Writer on Iranian Payroll

A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri / File. The criminal case of the frequent New York Times contributor charged by prosecutors with being an unregistered foreign agent of Iran has been assigned to Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn, who has […]

Anti-Trump NY Times Writer Arrested for Working as a Secret Agent of the Iranian Gov’t

Anti-Trump New York Times writer Kaveh Afrasiabi was arrested last week and charged with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent for the Iranian government. If convicted, Afrasiabi could be imprisoned for 10 years. #US– Kaveh Afrasiabi is arrested this week and charged for being an unregistered foreign agent of #Iran. New […]

Persian writer’s new poetry collections feature teenage concerns  

TEHRAN – Iranian writer Kamal Shafiei has said that his latest two poetry collections feature concerns of the teenage years. The Gooya House of Culture and Art has recently released his new collection, “If Trees Could Walk”. “The collection contains 30 new poems and a selection of works I had composed long ago,” Shafiei told […]

Opinion writer faces backlash for article calling on future US first lady Jill Biden to drop ‘Dr’

A writer is facing a backlash after being accused of misogyny in a Wall Street Journal op-ed he wrote calling on incoming US first lady Jill Biden to drop the use of the honorific “Dr”. Joseph Epstein, who formerly taught English at Northwestern University, wrote that Dr Biden, who has a doctorate in education, should […]

Mihail Sebastian: How a Jewish writer lived, loved and survived in WW2-era Romania

Mihail Sebastian’s 1933 novel Women receives just two mentions in the voluminous diaries that he kept in the last decade of his life, a time when his native Romania was – like most of Europe – descending into fascism and ultimately the violence of the Second World War. In an entry made on 17 December […]

This author is proud to call herself the ‘Jewiest’ writer ever

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Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker Prize

Dutch poet and writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest person ever to win the International Booker Prize. Rijneveld’s novel, The Discomfort of Evening, is about a devout Christian family that lives in a Dutch rural community. At 29, Rijneveld is the youngest recipient of the award, with the 55,000 euro prize split between […]

Jewish Pedo Frank Collin Is Now a Frequent Guest on Rense and Writer for Inner Traditions

Frank Collin, if some of you don’t know, was the leader of the National Socialist Party of America, who organized the march on Skokie. He was ousted by Harold Covington (1/4 Jew who ironically slept in the same bed as Collin) for being not only Jewish (real name Cohen), but also being a child molester. […]

France rediscovers Joseph Kessel, the Jewish writer of ‘Belle de Jour’

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"Deeply Misguided" New York Times Writer Calls For Financial Firms To Block Gun Sales

What Sorkin is suggesting is more of the same, although perhaps with worse consequences. If banks take action where policymakers do not or cannot, they are essentially putting themselves above the law. And if banks start playing that role, where does it end? What if, for example, banks and credit card companies […]

Guest Writer: Healthcare in Gaza: Is there any hope left?

Dr Munir Ravalia Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, who have been under strict Israeli blockade for 11 years, are suffering of the severe lack of all basic needs with healthcare on top of them. The World Employment Conference in 1976 proposed that the satisfaction of basic human needs is the overriding objective of any […]

Snopes Lead Writer Admits She Gets High While Fact Checking

Snopes lead writer Kim LaCapria admitted in her personal blog that she smokes pot while fact checking political articles. The Daily Mail report that LaCapria, who boasts of being a dominatrix called Vice Vixen, also keeps a personal sex blog. In her personal blog she described what she did on a day off, writing that she […]

Paul Horner, writer of fake news about 2016 election, dead at 38

Paul Horner, a writer of “fake news” who claimed to influence the 2016 election with his widely discredited stories, was found dead outside Phoenix, according to the Associated Press. He was 38. PHOENIX — A leading purveyor of fake news in the 2016 presidential election has died outside Phoenix at the age of 38. Maricopa County […]

Famous ‘Fake News’ Writer Who Wrote Anti-Clinton Stories Found Dead

Hillary Clinton finally got what she wanted. Famous ‘fake news’ writer Paul Horner, author of many anti-Clinton articles, has been found dead.  Accused of being the ‘leading purveyor of fake news’ in the 2016 presidential election, the 38-year-old was found dead outside Phoenix in his bed, on September 18,  Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark […]

Fake News Writer Who Thought He ‘Got Trump Elected’ Found Dead In Bed

An infamous online troll and fake news writer was found dead in his Arizona home, authorities said on Tuesday. Paul Horner, who penned debunked articles about Bill Murray running for president and President Obama opening a Muslim museum, was discovered unresponsive in his bed on Sept 19. There were no signs of foul play, according […]

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