Paul Zakrzewski
By Paul Zakrzewski
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The Schmooze Video: My Father’s Polish Rescuer
It was a memoir I’d been trying to write for three years without much success. I’d been wanting to tell the story of how, in the summer of 2008, I’d traveled to Warsaw, Poland, for a week with my wife and my 13-month-old son, Noah. Mornings we were tourists, while every afternoon was spent hanging…
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Culture For a Versatile Critic, All the World (Wide Web) is a Stage
The decade-old Internet revolution has radically changed the way in which we present ourselves to one another — sometimes deceitfully, often anonymously and not usually for the better. That’s one thesis in a new book by culture critic Lee Siegel, who knows of what he speaks. In 2006, Siegel was caught and suspended from The…
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Culture Two Books for the Price of One
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes By T Cooper Dutton, 416 pages, $24.95. * * *| Things are not what always what they seem in the world of T Cooper. To begin with, there is the title of her second novel, “Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes.” This sort of giddy riffing, where subsequent clauses…
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Culture Generation Birthright Grows Up
The Task of This Translator By Todd Hasak-Lowy Harcourt, 272 pages, $13. * * *| Raymond and Hannah By Stephen Marche Harcourt, 216 pages, $14. * * *| Light Years By Tammar Stein Knopf, 272 pages, $15.95. * * *| There was a time when you hardly ever picked up an American novel or story…
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Culture Seeking Virtual Realities In Both Science and Art
More than a decade after David recovered from a Unabomber attack that nearly killed him, the prominent Yale computer scientist is at a crossroads with his life’s work. As a graduate student in the late 1970s, Gelernter made his mark by writing a program called “Linda” — after porn star Linda Lovelace — which allowed…
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Culture Papa Was a Rolling Stone How One Young Woman Pieced Together Her Father’s Story
Assembling My Father By Anna Cypra Oliver Houghton Mifflin, 368 pages, $25. * * *| The old chestnut about 1960s hedonism ran that if you remembered the decade, you weren’t really there. If the joke once reflected a popular perception of the times, it also missed a much more unpleasant truth. Released from social conventions,…
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