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Monday, April 22, 2013

The Problem With Boys

THE NEW GENDER WARS (From April 7 Star Ledger)

TUCKER CARLSON:
EVEN DUMBER THAN HE LOOKS

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

It's Always GUYS With Guns

Focus on Females and Firearms Ignores Ugly Truth (From March 10 Star Ledger)


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Friday, February 22, 2013

Let Your Kids Fail!

The New Old School of Parenting (From Feb. 17 Star Ledger)

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Who Didn't Kill JFK?

You Can't Kill A Conspiracy Theory
 
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Farewell to Arms?

Gun-Totin' Teachers No Solution (From Dec. 30 STAR LEDGER)


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RECENT STAR LEDGER OP EDS

The Myth of Raging Female Hormones
On Religion, Time To Grow Up
Should Athletes Be Prosecuted For Trash Talk?
Are Americans Still Afraid Of Sex?
Reading: Hazardous To Your Health?
Parents Already Have It All - That's The Problem
The Burbs They Are A'Changin'
The Real Problem With Affirmative Action

RECENT STAR LEDGER BOOK REVIEWS

Richard Ford's "Canada"
Dennis Lehane's Any Given Day
Colm Toibin's "The Empty Family"
Keith Donahue's "Centuries Of June"

Books (Author or Contributor)

  • COMING TO AMERICA
  • IRISH AMERICAN CHRONICLE
  • MCGRAW HILL'S GUIDE TO RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
  • READER'S GUIDE TO "SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS"

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Long, Strange History of TV Cops
Joe Kennedy's Hollywood Years
Big City Beauty: Remembering the Ashcan Artists
Happy 125th Birthday Sherlock Holmes! The Mystery of Arthur Conan Doyle

A Video Tour of Old St. Pat's!

  • What's Old and New on Mott Street?

BIO

Tom Deignan writes a monthly Op Ed column for the Star Ledger newspaper, where he also regularly contributes book reviews. For over a decade, has written the weekly “Sidewalks” column for The Irish Voice newspaper (irishcentral.com). He also writes columns about books, movies, and history for Irish America magazine, and is a regular book reviewer for America magazine. Deignan is the author of Irish Americans: Coming to America (Barron’s, 2004), and served as a contributing writer for Irish American Chronicle (Publications International Ltd., 2009). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, Publisher’s Weekly, and Commonweal, as well as the Bloom’s Guide series of books on literary criticism and McGraw-Hill’s annual series of books on race and ethnicity. Currently an English teacher in Brooklyn, Deignan has taught history, cinema and English at CUNY, St. John’s University and Bowling Green State University. He is working on a novel about a New York City high school.

CONTACT ME

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Interviews With Authors, Actors and More

ED BURNS, Director and Actor
TOM FLEMING (from Publisher's Weekly)
SIOBHAN FALLON, "You Know When the Men Are Gone"
TANA FRENCH, "In The Woods", "Broken Harbor"

Journalism for the Independent Press Association

  • Reports on urban life, politics and immigration

Book Reviews from America Magazine

Roddy Doyle, Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin and more...

LIBRARY DISCUSSIONS

20 Books Every Irish American Should Read

Saints and Sinners in Irish American History

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Mystery: Where Was Fiorello La Guardia Born?
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