Maralyn Lois Polak
Maralyn Lois Polak | |
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Born | Long Branch, New Jersey, United States |
Occupation(s) | Columnist, author, screenwriter, poet, editor, researcher |
Maralyn Lois Polak is an American columnist, screenwriter, performance poet, spoken word artist, novelist and journalist.[1][2]
In collaboration with architect Benjamin Nia, Polak co-created the 25-minute documentary My Hometown: Preservation or Development? about the threatened demolition of 19th century buildings near Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square, and preservationists' efforts to save them from a developer's wrecking ball.[3]
She also authored the experimental online meta-novel, IMAGINARY PLAYMATES/Man in Her Mind: Further Adventures of Boris and Natasha, serialized weekly for six months on the former political-literary website FemmeSoul.Com, and a cartoon book, Anoushka on Her Deathbed: 101 Cartoons From the Abyss.[4]
As a former commentary columnist for the online news site WorldNetDaily during a decade as one of their few progressive contributors, Polak wrote more than five hundred political satire opinion pieces in her sometimes controversial weekly column called Left-Handed.[5]
Her journalistic career also includes a long stint with the mainstream media as nationally syndicated weekly celebrity interview columnist for Knight-Ridder and the now-defunct Sunday Magazine of The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she did over a thousand columns.[6][7]
Polak's quirky reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in the Chicago Tribune,[7] Reader's Digest, Andy Warhol's Interview, the San Jose Mercury News, The Philadelphia Inquirer[8] and The New York Times.[9]
Of that dichotomous era, Polak recalls, "Before I became interested in filmmaking, I led two parallel lives: journalist and poet. The journalists thought I was a lunatic and the poets thought I was a sell-out. Both sides got it wrong. Now my ambition is to simply be one real person. Easier said than done."
References
- ^ "Howard.edu". Howard.edu. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "Maralyn Lois Polak". Authorsguild.net.
- ^ Rubino, Frank (25 April 2005). "A Razin' in the Sun". Philadelphia Weekly. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ Hammond, Ruth (21 June 2005). "Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced". Altweeklies.com.
- ^ "WorldNetDaily". Wnd.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
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- ^ a b "Chicago Tribune". Articles.chicagotribune.com. 20 January 1992. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ Farmelant, Scott (17 August 1995). "Inky Offs Interview". Citypaper.net. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
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External links
- Miranda Pear’s Brazen Bedtime Stories: Un-P.C. Fairytales for Grownups
- Left-Handed by Maralyn Lois Polak at WorldNetDaily
- Maralyn Lois Polak at IMDb
- "A Razin' in the Sun," by Frank Rubino in the Philadelphia Weekly, on "MY HOMETOWN" a documentary film by architect Benjamin Nia and journalist Maralyn Lois Polak, about the struggle to save a historic neighborhood from the wrecking ball to build a luxury high-rise
- "Maralyn Lois Polak, Poet/Journalist/Visionary" at Amusejanetmason.com, "Pandora's Litterbox"
- Maralyn Lois Polak at Amusejanetmason.com, "Friends"
- Altweeklies.com
- Use dmy dates from February 2013
- American columnists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American political writers
- American documentary filmmakers
- Jewish American writers
- Jewish women writers
- American screenwriters
- Knight Ridder
- Living people
- Novelists from New Jersey
- American women poets
- Women columnists
- American women journalists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American poets
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
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