Maralyn Lois Polak
Maralyn Lois Polak is an American columnist, screenwriter, performance poet, documentarian, spoken word artist, novelist and journalist.
Maralyn Lois Polak
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- Maralyn Lois Polak
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- Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Columnist
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- United States
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Maralyn Lois Polak • Birthplace — Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. • Occupation — * Columnist • author • screenwriter • poet • editor • researcher
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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. 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. Polak was a commentary columnist for the online news site WorldNetDaily. Polak wrote The Writer as Celebrity: Intimate Interviews in 1986. The book contains interviews with a variety of authors and journalists. Polak 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. Polak's reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.
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- 2.Maralyn Lois Polak. Authorsguild.net.
- 3.Rubino, Frank. A Razin' in the Sun. Philadelphia Weekly. April 25, 2005.
- 4.Naedele, Walter. Roger F. Goodwin, 69; filmed campaign ads. Philadelphia Daily News. June 2, 2010.
- 5.Lois Polak, Maralyn. Talking Plots With Mark Lane. Chicago Tribune. January 20, 1992.
- 6.The Washington Times. Culture Briefs. February 19, 2004.
- 7.Polak, Maralyn Lois. The writer as celebrity: intimate interviews. M. Evans. 1986. 978-0-87131-477-2.
- 8.Hammond, Ruth. Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced. Altweeklies.com. June 21, 2005.
- 9.Lois Polak, Maralyn. A Passion Born in Kindergarten. The New York Times. March 30, 1986.
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