David Rothman is reachable at davidrothman@pobox.com.
Read MoreDeep Throat is dead—and so are the old rules of investigative journalism
Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, the whistleblower in the FBI who blew open much of the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post, is dead. Leonard Downie, a Post staffer at the time, writes how much investigative reporting has changed since then—for example, technologically. Imagine staying in touch with a source who totes a prepaid cell […]
Read MoreFrom Philip Roth to Agatha Christie and Arthur Clarke: BBC’s treasure trove of audio interviews
Here’s some inspiration for me or other writers aiming for radio exposure. I can’t recall where I ran across it—a Twitter tweet?—but I’ve discovered a treasure trove of author audios at the BBC site. A 1937 recording of George Bernard Shaw is among them.
Read More‘The impotence of proofreading’ (found on YouTube)
David Rothman’s No Frills Home Page (Archived Item)
DAVID ROTHMAN’S NO-FRILLS HOME PAGE TeleRead Home Page | Arthur C. Clarke Chapter from The Silicon Jungle Harry Rothman Eulogy Thanks for dropping by my No-Frills Home Page. Alas, many of the links are out of date since this page goes back to the 1990s and I haven’t heard time to update it. My latest book is The […]
Read MoreThe ACTUAL Telegram?
A friend and I had just seen a movie with a soft-spoken and obscenity-free editor, a balding Boy Scout of the city room. Now she wondered if my novel hadn’t sinned in making such a wild character out of George McWilliams, editor at the fictitious Washington Telegram. Her message couldn’t have been clearer. Ben Bradlee, […]
Read MoreBlurbs
A New York Times contributor offered the best take on blurbs. Maybe we should call in the Bureau of Consumer Protection. He was talking about “misblurbing” of existing book reviews, but original blurbs come with their own perils. Just the same, as others have noted before, positives exist. Honest blurbs can be a useful form […]
Read MoreTwilight Times Books
Phone: 423-323-0183 Email: publisher@twilighttimesbooks.com Publisher: Lida Quillen Web site: Here.
Read MoreHarry Edward Rothman’s Eulogy (Archived Item from 1997)
Dad was born in Manhattan on September 28, 1910, to Max and Dora Rothman. Max was a house painter and decorator, a craftsman; and from him my father may very well have inherited his own love of the brush. Dad grew up in Brooklyn and bus-boyed his way through New York University, from which he […]
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