Rick Marin

Dec 11, 2024 | commentary.org | Rick Marin

It's not often that a TV show not only nails the zeitgeist but anticipates it-that zeitgeist being the election of Donald Trump and concomitant rebuke of the Democratic political-cultural agenda. Make that TV shows, plural, all from the ridiculously prolific keyboard of Taylor Sheridan. His massive hit Yellowstone spawned two prequels- 1883 and 1923-and five more series: Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Lioness, and, most recently, Landman.

Dec 2, 2024 | outsideonline.com | Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan |Rick Marin |W. Hodding Carter |Florence Williams

Reeling from her husband’s request to divorce after 25 years of marriage and two kids, Florence Williams was experiencing debilitating grief. An accomplished reporter, she decided to explore the science of heartache to see if she could find a cure. In this excerpt from her new book, ‘Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey,’ she heads out for a 120-mile solo paddle on Utah’s Green River, with a too heavy portable toilet and a shattered heart.

Nov 13, 2024 | commentary.org | Rick Marin

What if there had been no gravedigger? On November 26, 1963, Jimmy Breslin published a column in the New York Herald Tribune that cemented his reputation as the "voice of the common man." The piece was still being taught when I was in journalism school in the 1980s. Four days after the assassination of JFK, every reporter in the country was chasing the who, what, when, where, and why of that national tragedy.

Oct 15, 2024 | commentary.org | Rick Marin

When I lived in New York in the late 1980s, the was my bible. Not my political bible. I was the only one in my class at Columbia Journalism School who would have voted for Reagan-if I hadn't been Canadian. It was my nightlife-and-everything-else bible. How I knew what clubs to go to, who was playing at The Bottom Line, where I found my first apartment. One of my closest friends in those days met his future wife through its personal ads.

May 14, 2024 | commentary.org | Joseph Epstein |Christine Rosen |Rick Marin

For Billie Holiday, solitude was no bargain. “In my solitude,” she tells us in one of her signature songs, she sits in her room, filled with despair, gloom everywhere, eminently sad, certain she’ll soon go mad.