Professional/Personal Overview
During the day, I "moonlight" as an HR exec. In my free time I've published one book, many career articles, essays, book and movie reviews online, in print newspapers, trade journals and magazines. Deadline-driven and easy to work with.
Work Info
Expertise
Book Author
1 Year
Reporter
10 Years
Writer
22 Years
Specialty
film critic, news and features journalist
2 Years
Books & Literature
3 Years
Business (general)
15 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
22 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
neworldreview.com (11+), seniorfilmfiles.com (11+), Working Mother magazine (1-2), inreads (1-2)
Other Work History
chief hr officer, culmination of 25 year career
Computer Skills
Microsoft Outlook, Publisher
Equipment
digital camera, audio recorder
Foreign Language Skills
fluent French (translator), some Spanish
References
Fred Beauford, publisher of neworldreview; Barbara Turvett, editor Working Mother Magazine, Tony Lee, former editor WSJ career pubs.
Associations
SHRM
Other
MA + PhD graduate work in English Lit
Freelancer Availability
I occasionally freelance. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel locally. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
(Various , 5/12/1990)
Here is a list of many of my publications over the last 20 years. Many more existed in print only which I can also produce if desired. I wrote a weekly CareerPlus columnfor the New York Post, for example, and articles for WSJ pubs that no longer exist.
BOOKS
(Silver Lining Books , 1/1/2001)
Re-released in 2002 on audiotape and in 2003 as Getting a Job (B&N Basics). All I learned from sitting opposite hundreds of candidates in my long HR career, all I was dying to tell them (lose that perfume!) and couldn't, all that I wished that I had known when I started out.
REVIEWS
(Neworld Review , 9/1/2012)
I still remember the thrill of darting across Old Route 17 in Masten Lake, NY, where my family spent a week every summer, and going into the little rundown store. I'd slide a magazine from the rack, fish the money out of my shorts pocket, and run back across 17 to my room, breathless. There, in the
(Neworld Review , 4/1/2012)
Lively review of the Royal Wulff Murders, a delightful book that blends fishermen lore with elements of noir mystery. Utterly charming.
(Neworld Review , 2/1/2012)
Review of Death Comes to Pemberley. A snappy critique of PD James's murder mystery "sequel" to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
(Neworld Review , 9/1/2011)
Review of Wendy and the Lost Boys : 'Salamon peers behind the curtain at the giggling, chubby, wild-haired, and often unkempt playwright who articulated the pressures women faced at the height of the sexual revolution...
(Neworld Review , 4/2/2011)
Francisco Goldman, in Say Her Name, mounts a towering memorial to the life and works of his young wife whose promising academic and writing career was cut short when she lost her life in a freak accident at age 30. Not only does he resurrect Aura (fitting name!) in all her quirky reality, he quotes
ESSAYS
(Working Mother , 4/1/2012)
Essay sprinkled with dark humor about frustrations of raising a child who does not want to be rushed!
MOVIE REVIEWS
(Festival of Films , 9/3/2012)
In Robot & Frank, we are introduced to Frank (Frank Langella), an unregenerate senior, who, it's clear, is losing his marbles one at a time, though he insists, There's nothing wrong with my mind! Hmmm. He's just burglarized his own house!
(stage and cinema , 5/1/2010)
This review won a 3rd place prize
(stage and cinema , 4/1/2010)
KALEIDOSCOPIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST?
(Senior Film Files , 8/19/2008)
Conversation about the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona by Woody Allen by the critic (me) and her husband.
(Senior Film Files , 1/1/2008)
Burn After Reading: Three employees of Hardbodies Gym in DC (McDormand, Pitt and Jenkins) become witlessly embroiled in a sort of espionage misadventure, actually more of a Mad Magazine Spy vs. Spy comic strip. A lot of what they think is happening is a product of their overactive imaginations...”
CAREER WRITING
(career journal (WSJ) , 5/1/2000)
One of my few print articles from a decade of writing that's still online!
THEATRE
(Journal News , 8/10/2012)
Review of Penguin Rep's performance in Stony Point, NY
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
