Serling is Available Now!

The Zone man always rings twice. Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television’s Last Angry Man, first published by Dutton in the long ago year of 1992, is now available from Cornell University Press with the streamlined title, Serling: The Rise and Twilight of TV’s Last Angry Man…With a lapidary foreword by Ron Simon, senior curator at the Paley Center for Media, AND a mind-bending new set of photos of Rod and the “Zone,”
as well as stills from some of other Rod’s works, as well as
several taken by me during my most recent sortie to Serling
Land!

Order yours here!

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The Frank Family That Survived

The enduring classic account of the Dutch Holocaust, based on the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 documentary, just translated into Finnish, with over 40,000 copies sold in four languages, and still going strong… See some samples of the text, along with some interviews and reviews, at the Frank Family That Survived page!

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Excerpt from the Serling Lecture

Conducted Fall 2011 at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Architecture, Art, and Planning:

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The Battle of Finland has Arrived in Estonia!

Tere hommikust! I am very pleased to announce the publication of Lahing Soome pärast 1939-1940, the Estonian edition of The Battle of Finland, my best-selling history of the Winter War by Estonia’s best-known publisher, Varrak. Given my relationship with Estonia, and my many friends there, this is a particularly proud moment for me. With a …

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Redford (Omni, 1981)

“So, you came to hear the Sundance Kid?” chirped the wife of the hospitable native I had met on the flight from Spokane as we sped away from the Pullman, Washington (population 18,000) airport into the soundless, star-sprinkled Big Sky night. “I heard he didn’t show.” Those aren’t precisely the first words an exhausted Redford-hunter …

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Diving into Budapest (Blue Wings, 10/2011)

DIVING INTO THE EIGHTH. “Up and coming? The Eighth?” Up until a few years ago, the average Budapester would have described this raffish, pie-shaped district on the eastern side of the bifurcated Hungarian capital as anything but. Now, thanks to an infusion of imagination and investment, and a healthy dose of Hungarian coffee, the eighth, …

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