Janet Cooke is Now 66

April 15, 1981

“Jimmy’s World” was in essence a fabrication. I never encountered or interviewed an 8-year-old heroin addict…I apologize to my newspaper, my profession, the Pulitzer board and all seekers of the truth. Today, in facing up to the truth, I have…

Bombay Then; Mumbai Now

Over the holiday period, my wife, Susan, my teenage grandsons, Benjamin and Peter Sanford, and I traveled to Mumbai…

The J.D. Salinger I Never Knew

In the second half of the 20th century, there were a number of celebrated novelists who happened to be…

The First Lady: Mrs. Ronald aka Nancy Reagan

Ronald and Nancy Reagan left the White House on January 20, 1989. Three decades…

Who You Gonna Believe

Dictators don’t just lie because they can. They lie because they must.

A Publishing Pod for Today’s World

Last week an item appeared on Axios, a much read Washington website…

The Resilience of Analog

Analog (adjective): “Not involving or relating to the use of computer technology, as a contrast to a digital…

Jimmy Carter-Walter Mondale — 185 Years of Good Lives

PRHSS or Whatever It Will Be Called

On the morning after Penguin Random House/Bertelsmann acquired Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS…

What a Duo!

Editors, publishers and parents are not supposed to choose favorites among those they nurture. But it should be fine to celebrate the…