Authors on the Web
Huffington Post, March 7, 2013
...I met Edward Jay Epstein in 1965, a lifetime ago. He was researching a book about the Kennedy assassination. I wondered why. Wasn't JFK killed by Lee Harvey Oswald? As I say: a lifetime ago. As a reporter and researcher, Ed Epstein gives new meaning to...
Huffington Post, January 20, 2013
...In 200 words, complete this thought: "If Martin Luther King Jr. came back to life and saw the United States today, he'd ....." My response would be along these lines: "... be assassinated within a year." But we have a black President! Yes, we do....
Huffington Post, November 12, 2012
...Writers don't retire. But Philip Roth is doing just that. At 79, he's decided he's "finished" with fiction: "I don't want to read it, I don't want to write it, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore. I dedicated my life to the novel. I studied...
Huffington Post, October 31, 2012
...We were giving a dinner for an Important Person, so we made up a guest list of friends we regard as Important. It is a measure of my wife's skill in the kitchen that we don't hesitate to invite Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer, the team...
Huffington Post, October 28, 2012
...Isaac Cline was more than a meteorologist. He was also a doctor. A fastidious dresser, a model citizen, a pillar of his community. As the 1900s began, he was a man of his time -- a man of certainty. Galveston was not, he believed, in any danger from...
Huffington Post, September 12, 2012
...It almost always annoys me when someone who isn't a professional writer produces a great book, but Victoria Sweet has written the best non-fiction book I've read this year and all I wanted to do when I finished reading it was to meet her and congratulate...
Huffington Post, September 4, 2012
...It used to be that the scariest sentence in the English language was "Mike Wallace is here to see you." No more. Now it's "Errol Morris is fact-checking you." Errol Morris, who makes Academy Award-winning documentary films? Yes, that one. With...
Huffington Post, January 14, 2013
...a corporate and government desire to tame and regulate the Internet. If so....well, good luck with that. Jesse Kornbluth [reposted from HeadButler.com ]...
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...Almost exactly a year ago --- in the first HeadButler.com edition of 2012 --- I wrote about Blake Mills , a California musician you never heard of. But you would, I said, because "without any hype, with no great charisma, without even much in the way of...
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...Almost exactly a year ago --- in the first HeadButler.com edition of 2012 --- I wrote about Blake Mills , a California musician you never heard of. But you would, I said, because "without any hype, with no great charisma, without even much in the way of...
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...Almost exactly a year ago --- in the first HeadButler.com edition of 2012 --- I wrote about Blake Mills , a California musician you never heard of. But you would, I said, because "without any hype, with no great charisma, without even much in the way of...
New York Social Diary, December 31, 2012
...blowing off the river last night. As we come down to the clock. About 7:45 p.m., Jesse Kornbluth sent me a message from Twitter’s Breaking News that Hillary Clinton had been admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital to treat a blood clot from her...
BusinessWeek, December 26, 2012
...Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Jesse Kornbluth, author of "Highly Confident," discusses the Michael Milken insider trading case. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg...
New York Social Diary, December 24, 2012
...Diary, Wendy Lerman, who Tweets it; Jill Krementz, who gives us her magnificent photojournalist diaries on the arts; Jesse Kornbluth (Headbutler.com); John Foreman, who gives us his Big Old House every Tuesday, Charlie Scheips who originated our Art Set...

