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Firefighter Niels Jorgenson got cancer from 9-11 and David Koch was kind to him

August 23, 2019 Ken Kurson 1 Comment

A few years ago, the great minds of Netflix were stumped. Their recommendation engine could not correctly predict whether viewers…

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Posted in: New York Observer, Writing Filed under: David Koch, Napoleon Dynamite, Niels Jorgenson

A Man on Tape: The Full Charm of Michael Prichard Narrating Tom Wolfe

May 15, 2018 Ken Kurson Leave a comment

Tom Wolfe has died. This story originally appeared in the New York Observer on December 4, 2013. One of my…

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Posted in: New York Observer, Writing Filed under: Don Katz, Michael Prichard, Tom Wolfe

Kurson Story about The Times Bestseller List Looks at Dueling Biographies of Roger Ailes

April 8, 2018 Ken Kurson Leave a comment

One of the last mysteries of the world is how the New York Times compiles its weekly list of the…

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Posted in: New York Observer, Writing Filed under: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Biographies, New York Times Bestseller List, Roger Ailes

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