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Could This Be A Devil's Cake?
Author, Who's Who in Hell
(NY: Barricade, 2000)
and
Celebrities in Hell
(NY: Barricade, 2002)
Columnist, "Gossip From Across the Pond" (England)
Late News
When a writer and editor named Warren Allen Smith sent [Sinclair Lewis] a questionnaire asking him to choose from several definitions of humanism the one most congenial to him, Lewis selected naturalistic (scientific) humanism. To an earlier query about his religion, he contended that people raised without religious belief seemed as happy and as ethical as those who did have a faith.
p. 447, Richard
Lingeman , Sinclair
Lewis, Rebel from Main Street (NY: Random House, 2002)
The Kid Who Left Iowa -
was an acting 1st Sgt on Omaha Beach in 1944, then had Lionel Trilling as his chairman at Columbia University, then taught over three decades in New Canaan, Connecticut (Martin Mull, Susan Tyrell, etc.) while also founding a major Manhattan independent recording studio (recorded Liza Minnelli's first demo) and writing a West Indian column, and now is a sybarite in Greenwich Village.
Who Am I? / My Who's Who Entry / Some Bibliography / Want A Date? / Some Highpoints / My Weaknesses
The Author
Who's Who in Hell - this, the most extensive listing of philosophic non-theists since Pierre Sylvain Mar(c)chal's Dictionnaire des ath(c)es (1798), made the front page of The New York Observer . Wolf Blitzer smiled at Jeannie Moos's CNN interview with the author, which was seen internationally. If your library doesn't have copies, COMPLAIN to the head librarian. Or, if you donate a copy to a library of your choice, you can purchase the $125 book for $75 postpaid from Robb Marks Bookseller (Box 350, rockton, IL 61072).
-- a philosophy professor at St. John Fisher college, comments about how the "great faiths" (Buddhism, Confucianism, etc.) go back to 300 BCE, how Muhammad and Jesus came much later (and their monotheistic views have led to much unhappiness). He likes how my book takes the "umbrella" approach to the various individuals and movements in philosophy.
-- Most importantly, WWH, is a literary truth serum. The reader, attracted at first, no doubt, by the title, is gradually led about the Hot Place, finding the way into every nook and cranny. Before long, the tourist takes up residence and instead of merely being told a story the reader becomes part of the story.
The CNN Interview by Jeanne Moos - this can be seen as well as heard . . . and was seen and heard all over the world! If it fails to be listed, complain to CNN!
Celebrities in Hell - a paperback companion to Who's Who in Hell , the work provides short biographical sketches of prominent people who have belief systems that run against the grain; e.g., Woody allen, Marlon Brndo, George Carlin, George Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Katharine Hepburn, Sally Jesse Raphael, Christopher Reeve, Howard Stern, Uma Thurman, etc. Available in late February 2002 and early March 2002 (Barricade Books, $14.95)
" Gossip From Across the Pond " - my scandalous column in the United Kingdom, from 1997 to date
" Manuel Salazar: Costa Rica's Forgotten Tenor" - my production of a musical compact disk in memory of Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora
Connections
Australia - People Against Racism in Aboriginal Homelands I have been encouraging Mike Lambe, who almost singlehandedly has forced the country to stop treating the Aborigines as trespassers.?
Bangladesh ( Taslima Nasrin ) Taslima is our century's Susan B. Anthony. Muslim fundamentalists have placed a "fatwa" on her head, so she has been forced to obtain asylum in Sweden. This physician-poet-novelist-journalist is my #1 inspiration, and I help her edit the translations from Bengali into English
Connecticut ( New Canaan, the Teacher ; NCHS alums) I taught in New Canaan for 32 years.
Costa Rica ( Fernando Vargas ; Asociacin Iberoamericana tico Humanista) ; I helped found this in Fernando's memory;
Costa Rican Compact Disk: " Manuel Salazar, Costa Rica's Forgotten Tenor "
Dominica ( Simon Blanc ) - my #1 buddy who is in jail (but gets out at 11 p.m.)
France - photo of my return to Omaha Beach 50 years later
Iowa (Betty and Harold Gottschalk; Bob Shirley; Alan Levin )
( H. James Birx ; Ed Cervone ; Fantuzzi; Tim Madigan; Mardi Philips; Gilbert Price; Terry Staber; Sun Ra and His Arkestra ; Jimmy Walker; Anita Weschler)
Sri Lanka (Sir Arthur C. Clarke; Royston Ellis)
South Dakota (Leroy Miles Clan: my mother's family were pioneers on the plains)
Organizations
Bentley School
the progressive school in Manhattan where I taught
before going to Connecticut
Bertrand Russell Society
where I have been a director for decades
FANNY and Freethought Groups
the Manhattan activist group that keeps me into mischief
Gay & Lesbian Humanist
the organization in England for whose journal I write
Mensa Investment Club
Mensa's oldest SIG, which I have headed since its founding
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