Whose Jerusalem?
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
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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
“Justice without mercy is not justice” — Jack Engelhard
By Jack Engelhard Justice without mercy is not justice. That was an exceedingly harsh expose of Greg Mortenson last Sunday on “60 Minutes.” Can’t say I read his book “Three Cups of Tea,” a huge bestseller over the past few years, a book that’s made him very rich, rich enough to build schools and…
Details“My Father, Joe,” a film adapted from my memoir “Escape From Mount Moriah” has already won so many awards worldwide that I’ve lost track. The latest, April 16, came from the Houston Film Festival, where the film won the Jury Award. Now it’s CANNES, Europe’s equivalent of the Academy Awards. “MY Father, Joe,” has been…
DetailsOnly hours after members of the Fogel family were being buried in Israel, victims of ritual savagery, diplomats at the UN were being treated to an anti-Israel film titled “Miral.” This film is a production of Julian Schnabel and The Weinstein Company. Two thousand years ago the Rabbis, seeing betrayers within the ranks during the…
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By Jack Engelhard
Someone has come along with a “sequel” to JD Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” Salinger is suing to stop publication and distribution. He calls it a “rip-off.” Don’t look at me to get into the legalities. But I do know how it feels.
I wrote nothing as popular as “The Catcher in the Rye” but popular enough to be translated into more than 22 languages and to be made into a movie starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore – “Indecent Proposal.” (The movie’s box office was about $260 million worldwide.) The novel’s concept (“what would you do for a million dollars?”) was mine and the title was mine. This was original and it was my baby.
My novel sold about 4 million copies worldwide and still sells (through Comteq Publishing) even after the movie has run dry.
Salinger’s novel is still going strong after sales of 70 million.
Around the house, following the publication of “Indecent Proposal,” we used to say, “No matter what happens, they can’t take that away from you.”
Really?
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The New York Times reminds us that Philip Roth is into his 50th year as a writer. His first book was “Goodbye, Columbus.”
Roth is an Establishment figure, a media darling. Our culture honors Jewish writers – and Jewish artists in general – who are not happy being Jewish. This theme runs through most of Roth’s works. This is a man running from his faith; uncomfortable in his skin. For that, he is celebrated.
The Jews in Roth’s novels are usually whining and groaning – objects of ridicule from clothing to behavior. There is no love of Jewish roots, no love of Torah. If Torah is mentioned, it’s done so in derision. Always there are complaints about being Jewish. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – That’s not writing. That’s kvetching.
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The Girls of Cincinnati Sometimes it pays to get out of bed in the morning. THIS morning, there it was, Amazon’s “Look Inside This Book” feature for “The Girls of Cincinnati.” The book was published not even a month ago by Amazon (through its createspace subsidiary) but it takes some time to get that sneak-peek feature up and running, but here it was and here it is, something of a thrill for a writer and maybe (hopefully) for a reader.
I don’t mean to do any sucking-up, but I do so appreciate this quick, professional work. Where – reading and writing fans – would we be without Amazon?
Amazon came along just when writing and reading were dying. Book stores were closing and writers who were not Dan Brown had no shot.
Oh – yes, some call it Print on Demand. I don’t. I call it Bypass Literature. This lets writers bypass the snobs who pay Hillary Clinton Eight Million Dollars for a “book” of nonsense. Some bad books get published POD but here’s a secret – plenty bad books get published by so-called conventional publishers. Plenty good books get self-published, beginning with Walt Whitman.
The most famous small book of all time – Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style” – was first self-published by William Strunk, Jr.
We will never know how many great books never got published due to the clubby, chummy, clueless world of (conventional) editors and publishers.
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A 50 to one shot won the Kentucky Derby, which means that no one, or hardly anyone, expected this to happen. But that’s life at the track.
That’s life, period. We’re all 50 to one shots. Those are the odds (against us) at practically everything we intend to do with our lives.
DetailsJack Engelhard’s new novel, The Girls of Cincinnati, is now available exclusively on Amazon. This love-story/thriller was published by an Amazon subsidiary. The Girls of Cincinnati What’s It About? Eli Brilliant, young and handsome, is back home in Cincinnati after failing to make it in New York as an actor. Now he’s employed as…
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