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Encyclopedia > Roger L. Simon
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Roger Lichtenberg Simon is a mystery author, blogger and screenwriter living in California. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...


Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film Enemies, a Love Story. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story (Yiddish: ) by Isaac Bashevis Singer. ...


His screen adaptation of The Big Fix starred Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed hard-boiled private detective Moses Wine. Wine is cynical, hard-edged and also a former 1960s radical. Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...


Simon himself experienced a political transformation in which he felt alienated from what he saw as the excesses of the Left after the realities of the September 11, 2001 attacks affected him. He jokes "I may be the first American writer who was profiled both by Mother Jones and National Review." He supports both gay marriage and the war on terror, and contends that those issues are linked.[1] Look up left in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. ...


Simon also edits an influential weblog. In 2005 Simon founded, with bass-player Charles Johnson, webmaster of the Little Green Footballs weblog, a startup company called Pajamas Media. A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Little Green Footballs. ... Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a political blog run by California web designer Charles Johnson. ... Pajamas Media, briefly known as Open Source Media, is a startup company founded in 2004 by mystery writer and Huffington Post blogger Roger L. Simon and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs with the intention of. ...


Simon has been married three times. He is currently married to Sheryl Longin, who wrote the screenplay for Dick, a film spoof of Watergate. Look up dick, Dick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Watergate building. ...


Partial bibliography

  • Dead Meet (1968)
  • Heir (1968)
  • The Mama Tass Manifesto (1970) ISBN 0-03-084528-9
  • The Big Fix (1973) ISBN 0-87932-048-6
  • Wild Turkey (1974) ISBN 0-87932-082-6
  • Peking Duck (1979) ISBN 0-671-22880-3
  • California Roll (1985) ISBN 0-394-53711-4
  • The Straight Man (1986) ISBN 0-394-55837-5
  • Raising the Dead (1988) ISBN 0-394-56441-3
  • The Lost Coast (1997) ISBN 0-06-017707-1
  • Director's Cut (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5802-8

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Review | The Lost Coast by Roger L. Simon (1667 words)
For a country still reeling from that fractious decade and its fallout, it was a courageous move, a brave slap in the face that acknowledged that the times hadn't changed quite as much as or necessarily in the ways that everyone had expected.
Unbeknownst to his dad, Simon has apparently aligned himself with the Guardians of the Planet, a radical environmental group that claims credit for "spiking" redwoods in a disputed Northern California logging area, hoping to protect the trees from destruction.
It is a shame that this always-smart and often-provocative series seems to have fallen out of favor, because it's one of the few that has dared to chronicle not just the life of a man, but of an entire generation.
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