[10], In 1977, he went to work at the Detroit Free Press. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Unable to add item to List. In the ensuing years their love story will become a horror story, then a captivating adventure yarn, then a police procedural, and then a love story again-with a denouement so melodramatic that the plot would be laughed out of any Hollywood pitch meeting. Many of his columns addressing gender differences have been written in a he-said, she-said style in collaboration with humorist Gina Barreca, his co-author for I'm with Stupid. He grew up in the southwest Bronx, the son of an accountant who worked as an Internal Revenue Service agent and a schoolteacher. More, please.”—Washington Post“One of the Best Books of 2019.”—Washington Post “A captivating portrait of a day in the life of the United States by a much-honored Washington Post journalist… One of the finest plain-prose stylists in American journalism, Weingarten tells his elegantly structured stories without sentimentality or melodrama… A slice of American life carved out by a master of the form.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Everybody loves a good story, especially when it’s told by a master storyteller. But it is just the final lie of a successful, influential, cynical, hypocritical, self-delusional life. [28] The comic took over five years to develop, with the Miami Herald, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune early supporters. The migrs tell American reporters about their disappointment with life in the United States and nostalgia for their old country. The mayor expects a warm welcome from these blue-collar white people, his most loyal constituency, the demographic that has voted him into office three times despite lingering mistrust among people of color. As it happens, she was on to something. It is called The Style Invitational. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. [11] In 1984 he created the Herald Hunt, along with Barry and his current editor at the Washington Post, Tom Shroder, whom he refers to frequently in his online chats as "Tom the Butcher". I couldn’t put it down.”—Petra Mayer on NPR’s “Here & Now”“An excellent book…humble yet profound.”—Guardian “[Weingarten has] uncommon storytelling gifts…. The network news is chockablock with opportunistic automotive ads urging you to buy now because on January 1, under the Reagan administration's new, simplified tax code, you will no longer be able to deduct new-car sales tax on your returns. Gates is charming, and he is prescient in many ways, predicting, among other things, eventual crises in cybersecurity.
The midnight caller, as he'd assumed, was his surgical colleague Edward Lefrak. And he does not seem to foresee an innovation that is a mere nine years away and barreling toward us all: the mighty, inexhaustible, bottomless real-time interconnection of humans and ideas that we now call the Internet. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. According to Gene Weingarten it was a slow news day and that might be true but the details that went into this book were amazing. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up (with Gina… More about Gene Weingarten, One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 YearsSlateA Best Book of the Year The Washington Post Slate Parade New York Post The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel“The book adds up to something greater than the individual stories….
Decades tardy to the basic protocols of feminism, the Gray Lady's matrimonial pages are also notoriously elitist, biased toward America's blue-blooded white aristocracy. People linking hands in an earnest but imperfect effort to span the continental United States for fifteen minutes, as a symbolic act to fight poverty and homelessness.
And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, I'm with Stupid: One Man. [21], Weingarten is a self-acknowledged hypochondriac. "One Day" by Gene Weingarten; Blue Rider Press (384 pages, $28). [43], Weingarten has stated he is an atheist. And yet Weingarten doesn't shy away from that complexity, which is one reason the storytelling is so powerful. In October 2019 Weingarten published One Day, an exhaustive look into a random day in American history. To elude them, the driver takes his car out a back exit, with U.S. Secret Service cars preceding and trailing it. I ripped through it in an evening. The journalistic version of a swan dive off a tall ladder into a teacup.”—Chicago Sun-Times “This snapshot of the nation on one particular day is one that deserves pride of place in America’s family album.”—Daily Beast“One of Fall 2019’s Biggest Books…Weingarten, who has won two Pulitzers for feature writing, tells it as few can.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“A fascinating conceit.”—USA Today“Dramatic narrative nonfiction…offer[ing] a new perspective on world history.”—USA Today“Fall books for your must-read list…It is a great book. Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019. When they take off, a strut catches on some debris and the copter inverts, its rotor pulling it to the ground. At 6:15 p.m., in a ceremony on a hotel veranda in Montego Bay, Jamaica, a very pregnant woman from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, marries her longtime boyfriend. [39], Weingarten has lived in many places on the East Coast, but as he and his family settled in the Washington, D.C., area, they lived for a time in Bethesda, Maryland. Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019. In 2006, Weingarten won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for Multicultural Journalism for his Washington Post Magazine feature article Snowbound. But in 1986 he was a reasonably obscure cardiovascular surgeon in a busy hospital in suburban Washington, D.C. His name had not been in the newspapers. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. In 2007, for one of his "Below the Beltway" columns, he humorously enhanced his Wikipedia entry until he was caught and the edits reverted. Some of the chapters are quite heavy, dealing with murders, deaths, accidents and tragedy – typical newspaper fare, but examined with a lot more depth than you’d find in a newspaper story, and with a lot more perspective, as when possible, besides telling the story of what happened that day, we also get modern day interviews with the subjects or survivors looking back on that day and the effect it had on their lives over the years. They've been waiting for weeks, to be summoned on a moment's notice. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. The $200,000 rotating stage has broken. Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019.
You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.