JGeropoulas
The Living Force
The October issue of Vanity Fair is advertising an essay contest. The theme is "what is reality to Americans today? Did we ever have a grasp on it?" Besides the opportunity to address a national mainstream audience, there's a $15,000 first prize and a writer's retreat in Tuscany. The only challenge would be limiting it to 1500 words!
Despite the "world exclusive: 22 page Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes Family Album," there are 2 good articles in that issue:
"Pox Americana" (witty title), "Brand America has been discontinued. This is Bush Country now, and the world is recoiling from a new image that makes the U. S. as much a danger to its friends--including chief enabler Tony Blair--as it is to its enemies...This is Bush country and we're all just along for the ride." (76% of Britains think Bush is definitely screwing up the planet.)
"The Empire Falls" shows a city about to go over Niagra Falls and likens America/Europe in 2006 to Rome in 331 " Subtitute pornography and NASCAR for orgies and circuses--the parallel with Rome isn't far-fetched."
Here's the Vanity Fair's link www.vanityfair.com
Despite the "world exclusive: 22 page Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes Family Album," there are 2 good articles in that issue:
"Pox Americana" (witty title), "Brand America has been discontinued. This is Bush Country now, and the world is recoiling from a new image that makes the U. S. as much a danger to its friends--including chief enabler Tony Blair--as it is to its enemies...This is Bush country and we're all just along for the ride." (76% of Britains think Bush is definitely screwing up the planet.)
"The Empire Falls" shows a city about to go over Niagra Falls and likens America/Europe in 2006 to Rome in 331 " Subtitute pornography and NASCAR for orgies and circuses--the parallel with Rome isn't far-fetched."
Here's the Vanity Fair's link www.vanityfair.com
