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Finally, some culture!

Elmore Leonard appeared on Don Imus’s radio/TV program this morning and it was a relief to catch this author who has dazzled us for quite some time.

The interview only lasted about 15 minutes but both Imus and Leonard were in stride and we were charmed. We learned that Leonard produced 10 Rules of Writing (never NEVER begin or even use the word Suddenly), but mostly we learned that there’s more to our culture than trash. In case you don’t know who Elmore Leonard is – well that’s my point.

Elmore Leonard is proof that maybe tough guys can’t dance but tough guys can write. Read the rest of this entry »

Jack London wrote this novel, “Martin Eden,” when he was only in his 30s and it’s really the story of his life…about making it as a writer and about achieving that goal and about the futility of it all. His wanted fame and wealth and he got all that after years of rejection. He wanted the girl of his dreams, Ruth Morse, and when she finally came to him, he’d had enough.

Can you relate?

By the time the world caught up to him, Martin Eden was emptied out.  The people whose approval he sought turned out to be phonies.

This brings to mind J.D. Salinger who (so brilliantly and so timelessly) used Holden Caulfield to express the same loathing, disgust and despair. Read the rest of this entry »

[Published a couple of years ago but STILL APPLIES]

Exclusive: Dirty Politics? You Must Be Kidding

Author: Jack Engelhard

Date Published: 2008-01-10

Dirty Politics? You Must Be Kidding

Jack Engelhard

We’ve been warned that as primary season moves along, we’ll, it’s going to get ugly. Get ready for smear campaigns, attack ads – no mercy, no prisoners.

Yes, we’re being told, Dirty Politics will rule. (Ooh. I’m so scared.)

Psst: here’s a tip. We don’t even qualify as amateurs here in America. Take Kenya, please. The whole country is in an uproar because of a dispute as to who won the latest election for the top seat. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have been hacked to death in this tribal bloodbath, villages uprooted, and thousands sent scattering.

That’s dirty politics! Read the rest of this entry »

Jack Engelhard’s provocative international bestselling novel and mega-hit movie is now available on Kindle (as well as paperback).

The movie “was an adaptation of author Jack Engelhard’s novel of the same name; it [the novel] was a gut-wrenching study on love, money and trust.” NPR

“Precise, almost clinical language. Is this book fun to read? You betcha!” The New York Times

“Well-wrought characters…exhilarating pace.” The Philadelphia Inquirer

This novel was translated into more than 22 languages and was read by more than five million people worldwide. The movie earned more than $260 million box office.

“Hollywood only skimmed the surface of this powerful novel.”

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In Escape from Mount Moriah, Jack Engelhard achieves the impossible. In a single story, a single page, a single paragraph, even a single sentence, he combines a deep, abiding love with the unvarnished, penetrating gaze of a child, gritty realism with sublime philosophy, brevity with depth, the quintessentially Jewish with the essentially universal, and witty humor with the utmost seriousness.

And isn’t that what life is really like, after all?

Engelhard’s account of his immigrant childhood in post-World War II Montreal is a series of highly evocative visits to a world that has all but faded away. Some of these trips are very intense and some are leisurely, but all leave an indelible impression on the traveler.

It is simply impossible to leave Mount Moriah the same as you came to it. For me, this has meant deepening my appreciation of personal family experiences and, on a professional level, improving my own writing.

After turning the last, bittersweet page, like the author himself, you too will yearn for just a bit more time with the “old men” (and women) who live on forever in this book.

That is evidently exactly what happened to film director Nikila Cole. So, she created My Father, Joe, an award-winning short based on the very first chapter of Escape from Mount Moriah. Accompanying the success of this supremely touching film, a new paperback edition of the book is now available through Amazon.com. As Cole put it in a recent interview, “People who liked the film really should read Jack Engelhard’s book Escape from Mount Moriah.”

I second her advice and unreservedly recommend purchasing this slim, yet powerful, volume right away.

– editor, columnist and copywriter Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

“If you love JD Salinger’s CATCHER IN THE RYE, You Will Love Jack Engelhard’s ESCAPE FROM MOUNT MORIAH” — Novelist John W. Cassell

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By Jack Engelhard

Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal…this is the man who donated $27 million to Palestinian terrorists during a Saudi “telethon.”

This is the man who offered Mayor Rudy $10 million upon the proposition that we, the United States, admit that we ourselves were responsible for 9/11.

Rudy said, “No thanks.”

Rupert Murdoch, however, said thanks when Alwaleed offered to buy a share of Murdoch’s empire, and thus Alwaleed became the company’s second largest shareholder at 10 percent. Or perhaps it was son James Murdoch who invited in the Prince. Rupert is known as a friend of Israel.

Not so James, who at this moment sits on the hot seat before an investigative committee at Parliament on the matter of widespread phone/email-hacking – COINCIDENTALLY on 9/11 survivors — which threatens to bring down the entire Murdoch empire. James Murdoch once referred to those “F…Israelis” in a meeting with former prime minister  Tony Blair – as revealed by Blair’s top aide Alastair Campbell. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jack Engelhard

We all came together after 9/11 and we grieved properly and the media coverage was wall-to-wall – but nothing compared to this!

We’ve been in the eye of this Casey Anthony saga week by week, hour after hour and we are more outraged at this one woman than we were against the Islamic terrorists who murdered some 3,000 of our people in Lower Manhattan. I have no answer to this lopsided span of attention, only a guess or two. Read the rest of this entry »

Arab TV says that Arabs, not Jews, were in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. So THEY killed Jesus and we’ve been taking all this sh*t for nothing?

Jack Engelhard

www.jackengelhard.com