The Company Man
Originally Published in “The New York Times.” — I work for a big company. I’m small. I’m much smaller than the company. My boss told me so himself. He said, “The company is much …
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It’s not about Arabs hating Jews, but Arabs hating Arabs
So now it turns out that for all the blood, sweat and tears, we have lost Iraq. The terrorists are back. They have recaptured virtually every part of the country that had been won by our valorous men and women. The cost? More than 4,000 Americans dead and more than 30,000 wounded. Plus billions of…
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Engelhard’s Guide to Writing for a World Gone Berserk
Tips on writing, from any writer, should be ignored. But here we go anyway, from Jack Engelhard, the author of the international bestselling novel Indecent Proposal: 1. Keep it simple. What is the one thought you are trying to convey? Go for it cleanly. 2. Write for yourself. If you do not trust yourself, write…
DetailsENGELHARD: Notes to reviewers
Keep in mind that when you have a book in your hands, you have the author’s life in your hands…Jack Engelhard
Paddy Chayefsky’s response to gripes about GI behavior WWII
James Garner, playing Naval officer stationed in England: “You America haters bore me to tears, Miss Barham. I’ve dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old Cathedral towns with our cameras too loud, we think we can buy anything…
DetailsSpare Us the Pieties on Gaza — Jack Engelhard
EU, the European Union, same folks that brought us Hitler, this week boycotted and sanctioned the Jewish State back to Auschwitz borders. So, ever so humbly, this column needs to be repeated. Frankly, given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy.…
DetailsNovelist Jack Engelhard On Talent
The mechanic marveled at my being a novelist, able to put words together. I marveled at his being able to take an engine apart and put it back together again. We are all geniuses at something. The trick is to find out what it is.
Note to Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman
“The Hebrew Bible was THE PAPER OF RECORD long before The New York Times came along.” Jack Engelhard…and feel free to quote me: www.indecentviews.com
Cassell on Engelhard/Salinger
“If you love JD Salinger’s CATCHER IN THE RYE, You Will Love Jack Engelhard’s ESCAPE FROM MOUNT MORIAH” — Novelist John W. Cassell
http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Mount-Moriah-Triumphs-Homeland/dp/1935232436/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2