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'''Christopher Zara''' (born 1970 in [[Trenton, New Jersey]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[writer]]. He is the author of ''Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, The Twisted Secrets of the World's Creative Minds''. He is currently the managing editor of ''[[Show Business (magazine)|Show Business]]''<ref>NY Daily News, June 15, 2008</ref> and has previously written for ''MovieMaker'', ''Dramatics'', and ''Emmy Magazine.''.<ref>PR Leap, Aug 28, 2007</ref> ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' described ''Tortured Artists'' as "the funniest book to come out of New York in 2012." The ''[[Miami Herald]]'' called it "madly clever and cleverly mad." |
'''Christopher Zara''' (born 1970 in [[Trenton, New Jersey]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[writer]]. He is the author of ''Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, The Twisted Secrets of the World's Creative Minds''. He is currently the managing editor of ''[[Show Business (magazine)|Show Business]]''<ref>NY Daily News, June 15, 2008</ref> and has previously written for ''MovieMaker'', ''Dramatics'', and ''Emmy Magazine.''.<ref>PR Leap, Aug 28, 2007</ref> ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' described ''Tortured Artists'' as "the funniest book to come out of New York in 2012." The ''[[Miami Herald]]'' called it "madly clever and cleverly mad." Critic and psychiatrist Jacob Appel heaped praise on the volume in a 2012 review, describing the book as "a surprisingly sophisticated and oddly brilliant work—part popular science and part cultural criticism—that blends comic observation and trenchant insight into a literary treasure as difficult to put down as it is to classify."<ref>Appel, JM. ''Rain Taxi Review of Books'', Vol. 17 No. 2, Summer 2012 (#66)</ref> |
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Zara previously worked as a screenwriter for Sketchbook Productions. His credits include ''Average Community'' (2009), which won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary from the 2009 CMJ Film Festival.<ref>"Popwhore - A New American Dream Won Two Major Awards at NYIIFVF," All American Patriot, August 30, 2007</ref> |
Zara previously worked as a screenwriter for Sketchbook Productions. His credits include ''Average Community'' (2009), which won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary from the 2009 CMJ Film Festival.<ref>"Popwhore - A New American Dream Won Two Major Awards at NYIIFVF," All American Patriot, August 30, 2007</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:28, 10 June 2012
Christopher Zara (born 1970 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American writer. He is the author of Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, The Twisted Secrets of the World's Creative Minds. He is currently the managing editor of Show Business[1] and has previously written for MovieMaker, Dramatics, and Emmy Magazine..[2] The Los Angeles Times described Tortured Artists as "the funniest book to come out of New York in 2012." The Miami Herald called it "madly clever and cleverly mad." Critic and psychiatrist Jacob Appel heaped praise on the volume in a 2012 review, describing the book as "a surprisingly sophisticated and oddly brilliant work—part popular science and part cultural criticism—that blends comic observation and trenchant insight into a literary treasure as difficult to put down as it is to classify."[3]
Zara previously worked as a screenwriter for Sketchbook Productions. His credits include Average Community (2009), which won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary from the 2009 CMJ Film Festival.[4]