Hello, thanks for dropping by.
I have not won a Pulitzer Prize or a National Book Award, but I do have a certificate (framed) from the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, attesting to my "meritorious service in a humanitarian movement to reduce injury and death to children" when a patrol boy at Ray Elementary in the 1940's. Otherwise, I have:
Published the books at left; served over some two decades as literary editor, executive editor, or contributing editor at The Nation; written for that weekly, and for Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, and–at needier moments–Playboy and Penthouse; co-founded and edited [More], the monthly journalism review that published in the 1970s. The magazine is the subject of Provoking the Press (2019), a book by Kevin Lerner saluting the publication and charting its impact on U.S. media.
Before [More], I was an associate editor at Newsweek, a political reporter at The Evening Sun in Baltimore, and a Poynter Fellow at Yale University, where I conceived and taught a course on "The Politics of Journalism," which I also taught for several years at New York University.
Since the Ice Age, I've been struggling to finish a novel, the germ of which is my encounter, at age eight, with Enrico Fermi on the faculty club tennis courts of the University of Chicago. Unbeknownst to me, and pretty much everyone else at the time, he was leading the U.S. effort to create the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction, a breakthrough he achieved in 1942 that led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cheers, Dick Pollak
peace5650@proton.me