From the Archives: Beyond Belief

I’ve reached a point in the revision process where I’m going back to books I read early in the research process.  Because while some people may write and re-write in an absolute straight line, I do not.  I move back and forth, and sometimes I zigzag.  I’m definitely in a zigzag phase as I draw…

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In which I recommend a newsletter

I recently subscribed to a newsletter that I eagerly read each time it appears in my email in-box.* I am not sure what led me to World War II on Deadline —my guess is that someone linked to an issue on Twitter. Whatever the path, I was immediately hooked. The newsletter, and the website behind…

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Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds and the History of Radio Broadcasting

You’ve probably heard this story before: On October 30, 1938, a 23-year-old theatrical boy-wonder named Orson Welles caused panic among radio listeners with the Halloween episode of his Mercury Theatre on the Air (1): an adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds.(2) Actors played the roles of correspondents who broke into an on-going…

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