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Mark Rotella

@MarkRotella

Author, Amore: The Story of Italian American Song and Stolen Figs: Other Adventures in Calabria Director @Cocciainstitute Former Editor @PublishersWkly

 New York
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Joined May 2009
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Republicans kept wanting to juxtapose the KBJ hearings to the one for alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh. So let's do that. Because in the space between you'll find the story of racism and misogyny in America. My latest in @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Long Pause Explained Racism and Sexism in America

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Long Pause Explained Racism and Sexism in America

In that pregnant moment, everybody who was watching got to see how power and privilege work.

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Paul_R_Elie@Paul_R_Elie17 Mar 2022
"The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was officially founded almost a century ago, on December 30, 1922. Putin wants to celebrate this anniversary with great fanfare in a few months. The attack on Ukraine owes nothing to chance." Constantin Sigov, here: bit.ly/34Ol7Rk
Tell the Truth: Interview with Constantin Sigov, March 2022

Tell the Truth: Interview with Constantin Sigov, March 2022

Constantin Sigov, Ukrainian philosopher and director of the European Center at the University of Kyiv, has decided to stay in Ukraine as a witness. In this telephone interview, he recounts his...

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Paul_R_Elie@Paul_R_Elie2 Mar 2022
Lest we forget, here's Rebecca Solnit to remind us how thoroughly and crony-istically the Trump admin was bound up w Russia & how emphatically Fiona Hill spelled out Russian aggression in 2019 hearings theguardian.com/commentisfre…
It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin nexus | Rebecca Solnit

It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin nexus | Rebecca Solnit

A stunning number of Trump’s closest associates had deep ties to the Kremlin. The significance of this cannot be overstated

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Thanks so much for the kind words about this. I'm looking forward to committing some criticism over at the New Yorker.
Michael Luo (@michaelluo) profile pictureMichael Luo@michaelluo12 Jul 2021
Some @newyorker writer news: @parul_sehgal @chaykak @SilverJacket and Luke Mogelson. Here's the memo to staff.
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I'm verklempt! My very first acquisition is hitting the shelves (and virtual shelves) today. The perfect read-aloud, laugh-out-loud story for our times, with the cleverest art that's perfectly polished (yet wild at heart). Thank you @klaasics for entrusting us with this gem!
Minerva (@minervakidlit) profile pictureMinerva@minervakidlit30 Mar 2021
Hats off to THE KING'S GOLDEN BEARD on your #bookbirthday #pubday! Congrats to @klaasics on this "clever, biting fable..." Explore the book here: geni.us/AmgqiJ #kidlit #picturebooks #illustration
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Former NBCC board member @MarkRotella reviewed Rich Cohen’s "Pee Wees" for @nytimesbooks: nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books…
What Fuels a Fanatical Sports Parent? (Published 2021)

What Fuels a Fanatical Sports Parent? (Published 2021)

In “Pee Wees,” Rich Cohen chronicles a year in youth hockey — and gets real about its impact on his own psyche.

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Paul_R_Elie@Paul_R_Elie22 Jan 2021
My latest: a Daily Comment, in @NewYorker, about President Biden's Catholic faith and how he might draw on it - and on Pope Francis's example - as he leads the country newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Can Joe Biden Save American Catholicism from the Far Right?

Can Joe Biden Save American Catholicism from the Far Right?

Biden is the kind of flexible, independent-minded Catholic whom many bishops have spent their careers taking to task—and many progressive Catholics see as akin to themselves.

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As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a patriot.
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@chrislhayes7 Dec 2020
He crushed it
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Paul_R_Elie@Paul_R_Elie12 Oct 2020
Two days of rain, an uptick in COVID-19 cases, shortening days (and daylight savings time approaching): it feels like the long warm New York summer of coronavirus-recovery-in-place is coming to an end bit.ly/2SO7gRu
The Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the End of Seasons as We Knew Them

The Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the End of Seasons as We Knew Them

Spring, summer, fall, and winter may soon become vestigial presences that we encounter in music, poetry, and movies more than in our everyday lives.

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Italian American anti-fascist history
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In honor of #ItalianAmericanHeritageMonth, we highlight the premiere #ItalianAmerican #antiFascist newspaper of the 1930s+40s, Il Mondo, located at 80 4th Av #SouthofUnionSquare. It called out fascist sympathizers in America+fought for a democratic Italy: villagepreservation.org/2020…
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If you care about food, New York, restaurants and your soul, you will always remember the day you read this piece from Gabrielle Hamilton. nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magaz…
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Just when you think there’s no way the business-as-usual pettiness of Congressional politics would impede a deal that is so urgently needed, I present to you a reality check, ladies and gentlemen. How there was not a unifying deal before 6pm is truly beyond me
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I honestly don’t know what we’d do without Drs Fauci and @ScottGottliebMD during this crisis. Their tell-it-like-it-is style is frightening but, in the end, somehow comforting. I know we’ll make it through this with their wisdom and comfort guiding us.
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PW senior editor Mark Rotella notes that 'Kitchen Confidential' has influenced, "in one way or another, nearly every single chef book that has come since. And they would all admit to it."
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NBCC's just departed board member @MarkRotella writes up this year's AWP in Tampa, with a shout-out to the NBCC reading by Jeffrey Eugenides, Lorrie Moore and Dana Spiotta, moderated by NBCC president Kate Tuttle. #CriticalNotes bit.ly/2GQVtxv
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Tom Beer@TomBeerBooks10 Mar 2017
Over on the @bookcritics site we have your daily dose of #30Books30Days: @MarkRotella on Nigel Cliff's MOSCOW NIGHTS bit.ly/2ndrsv9
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Plimpton homage @VanityFair by @MarkRotella --superb. W/a poem by Marianne Moore AND @MuhammadAli vanityfair.com/culture/2016/…
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#BEA2015: Does Diversity Matter in Book Reviewing? @markrotella on @bookcritics panel publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t… via @publisherswkly
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