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May.17.2013
Sick Justice will be released in June by Potomac Books. It can be prepurchased at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and will be available in better bookstores everywhere.
“Whether you are right, left or moderate, Ivan cannot be trusted to agree with you about anything. The trouble with him is,...
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Feb.15.2013
You know that nightmare cruise on the Carnival ship of horrors that was finally towed into Mobile with a boatload of malfunctions? Power down? Food scarce and awful?* Toilets clogged? Shower conditions ranging from hideous to none?
“It’s like being locked in a Porta...
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Jan.18.2013
You may or may not be familiar with the case of ex Philadelphia fighter Anthony Fletcher. Framed more than twenty years ago for murder, he remains on death row even though the evidence proving him innocent sits in a file draw in the city’s Medical Examiner’s Office. The authorities in Pennsylvania...
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Jan.16.2013
Muhammad Ali, born Jan. 17, 1941, celebrates his 71st birthday as a worldwide symbol of peace and goodness, a kind of Mother Teresa figure who’s adored by all. His image has seen an amazing transformation.
In 1967 he was despised by millions when he, the heavyweight champion, defied the law by...
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Jan.02.2013
Anthony Fletcher, Jr., 33, the son of ex-lightweight fighter Anthony Fletcher, who was railroaded on a murder charge and sent to Pennsylvania’s Death Row more than 20 years ago, was shot to death in his West Philadelphia residence Saturday night.
Junior was just about the age of Senior when he was...
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Dec.29.2012
“We see no reason to exist anymore,” explained spokesman Clem Kaddidlehopper. “Our problems are solved. Now I gotta figure out how this thing works. It’s been so long.”
“You said it,” said Mrs. Kaddidlehopper.
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Dec.18.2012
Novelist Finds Countless Ways to Be Glum
Thanks to its humorlessness, this dreary novel is pretty much guaranteed to be a Big Critics' darling. Powers has powers. He seems like a good guy who's been through hell. He wants to tell a dark story about the war in Iraq using poetic flourishes -- and he...
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Dec.14.2012
The National Rifle Association is a collection of cowardly bastards afraid to venture out in the world without firearms. Most of our politicians are yellow bastards who do what NRA members tell them. That’s why our children are murdered.
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Dec.14.2012
As if we didn’t have enough trouble in this sport, this Saturday will be Larry Merchant’s last broadcast as a ringside analyst for HBO. The scene will be Houston, where he’ll be calling the Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce super bantamweight title fight.
Merchant’s departure after 35 years with the...
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Nov.05.2012
Don King is often portrayed as a kind of lovable lout. Here are some facts to contradict this mistaken impression.
Undefeated light heavyweight Ryan “The Irish Outlaw” Coyne, who’d been training to challenge Nathan Cleverly for his WBO belt on Showtime this Saturday night, was just dropped...
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Oct.16.2012
I don't normally post my boxing columns here, but in this instance I thought readers who aren't fans of the sport might be interested in knowing what sort of reasoning goes into the life-and-death decisions that officials must make. This first appeared in boxinginsider.com
Pat Russell understood...
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Oct.08.2012
California's 3 strikes law, the harshest, most punitive statute anywhere in what's known as the civilized world, became part of the criminal code after voters approved it as an initiative in 1994. As the proposed law was being written, voters were told it would apply to violent offenses only, but...
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Oct.03.2012
How did President Obama lose the first debate? Let me count the ways:
* He never even mentioned his plutocratic opponent’s “47 percent” statement branding disabled veterans and such as losers, which was like leaving your 50-caliber...
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Sep.27.2012
I just returned from a local cable interview to plug my new novel and as usual felt like a naked carnival barker. Some history:
I was once asked to read from my (then) new novel Exit Blue at Beyond Baroque, a literary salon in...
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Sep.07.2012
1. Fire lots of federal workers, including those who look after the infrastructure and regulate banks, medications, food, and airplane manufacturing. Call this trimming the fat out of the budget.
2. Unleash the coal companies.
3. Let people die for lack of medical care, food, and shelter, but...
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Isaac is . . . an overcoming-the-odds love story where the odds are seriously, seemingly insurmountably, stacked against the lovers. . . . We know something Ruth doesn’t know, and it’s painful being unable to comfort her. Any story with characters so real that we wish we could reach into the book and give them a hug demands to be read.
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—BookList Starred Review
About Ivan
New York Times-best-selling author Ivan Goldman's fourth novel Isaac: A Modern Fable was published by The Permanent Press in April 2012 and received a starred review in BookList. His novel The Barfighter was nominated as a 2009 Notable...
Causes Ivan Goldman Supports
American Heart Association
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Beit T'Shuvah Recovery Program