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Un anno da Dio
2007-11-20 18:23:00 di Trippi Leggo qui di un bislacco esperimento made in USA e mi viene subito in mente un film di Woody Allen in cui il suo personaggio, accusato da un amico di sopravvalutarsi e di credersi Dio risponde: “Beh se devo ispirarmi a un modello scelgo il migliore!” (ndr: non sono sicura che la battuta fosse ...
The Year of Living Biblically
2007-11-07 17:01:00 Sometimes it’s hard enough just dealing with one biblical command, such as to love our neighbors. Writer A.J. Jacobs took it quite a bit further. For one year he tried to follow all of the Bible’s commands, including stoning sinners. He chronicles his experiences in the funny and informative new book “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.” I had a good interview with Jacobs last week for a piece for NCR. I’ll publish the whole story after it appears, but for now I’ll share some of his thoughts with you. “I went into it with an open mind to find out what, if anything, I was missing in not having had a religious background,” he said during our telephone interview from Philadelphia, one stop on his 20-city book tour. Jacobs, 39, an editor at “Esquire Magazine,” grew up in a non-religious Jewish household. He writes that he had never prayed. For his biblical year, though, he had to ...
A.J. Jacobs, "The Year of Living Biblically" author: Mr. Media Interview, P
2007-10-12 18:02:00 (Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN: What are you especially glad to be done with from that year?A.J. JACOBS: Well, it was a very intense year so it was hard to, for instance, completely cut out lying, to be totally honest, all the time. It?s a radical life change. And I think it?s good not to. I think I learned that I should lie less. But there were times where it was just exhausting because I have a three-year-old kid, and you can?t tell him, ?Uh, sorry, the TV?s broken?. You have to say, ?No, you can?t watch TV because I don?t want you to,? and so there?s screaming, there?s crying, and he gets upset too.ANDELMAN: I think at one point he wanted a bagel, and you tried to convince him it was an English muffin. No, your wife convinced him it was an English muffin, and you just couldn?t do that.JACOBS: Right. He wanted a bagel. We didn?t have bagels. We only had an English muffin. So she wanted me to say, ?Hey, here?s a bagel,? and give him the muffin, but I felt I had to tell him the trut...
By: Mr. Media
A.J. Jacobs, "The Year of Living Biblically" author: Mr. Media Interview, P
2007-10-11 17:14:00 A.J. Jacobs must have the best magazine job in America. As editor-at-large for Esquire, here are a few examples of recent stories appearing under his byline:? ?My Outsourced Life,? detailing his effort to send his writing assignments to India,? ?Googling A.J. Jacobs?s Brain,? about his proposed effort to catalogue his thoughts, dreams, and desires?The Sexiest Woman Alive 2005? and ?2006,? in which he spent five months teasing readers as to the identities of Jessica Biel and Scarlett Johansson. And, yes, he was required by law to spend time with each of them, passing off flirtation as research.And then there was his equally painful interview with Eva Longoria of ?Desperate Housewives? in which he described each of her body parts in languorous detail.Oh, I could go on and on about the women in his professional life. They also include Mary Louise Parker and Rosario Dawson. But then we?d never get to the reason for this interview, which is to celebrate his hysterical, yet thought-provo...
By: Mr. Media
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