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2008:

American Satire's Last Gasp: July 21, 2008

Not Been There, Done Nothing; July 14, 2008
Death Of A Newsman: June 23, 2008
Beige Like Me: June 16, 2008
The Rascally Columnists of San Francisco: June 16, 2008
Enter and Sign In, Please!: April 7, 2008
A Belated Auld Lang Syne: Jan. 21, 2008

Life Is A Cabaret, But It's Closing Time (afterword): Nov. 26, 2007
Autumn in New York: Nov. 26, 2007
Limbo Revisited (Part 34): Nov. 19, 2007
Seriously Writing (Part 33): Nov. 12, 2007
Behind the Cover (Part 32): Oct. 29, 2007
One Knight in Shining Armor at My Service (Part 31): Oct. 22, 2007
That Old Gang O' Mine (Part 30): Oct. 15, 2007
End of the Trail (Part 29): Oct. 3, 2007
Remembrances of Flings Past (Part 28): Oct. 1, 2007
How Long Has This Been Going On? (Not Very): Sept. 17, 2007
Bravos and Boos For Mr. ShowBiz (Part 27): Sept. 17, 2007
Single...with No Children (Part 26): Sept. 3, 2007
All the President's Mutts: Sept. 3, 2007
Almost A Broadway Baby (Part 25): Aug. 20, 2007
Nachman Finally Goes Hollywood (Part 24): Aug. 6, 2007
"Quirks" (Part 23): July 30, 2007
Little Man About Town (Part 22): July 16, 2007
You Can Go Home Again--and Again and Again (Part 21): July 16, 2007
From Pigs to Blogs (Part 20): July 9, 2007
On the Road Again (Part 19): July 2, 2007
A Few Forgotten American Idols: July 2, 2007
A Negative Force in Fashion?: June 25, 2007
With Sadie At Sardi's (Part 18): June 25, 2007
Discovering America (Part 17): June 18, 2007

The Sopranos--The Movie: June 18, 2007
Father's Day 1953 (Part 16): June 11, 2007
Media Ring Around the Rosie: June 11, 2007
Book Marks (Part 15): June 4, 2007
Agents of Doom (Part 14): May 28, 2007
Down the Syndicate Drain (Part 13): May 21, 2007
Sowing My Wild Cheerios (Part 12): May 14, 2007
A Columnist Conspiracy (Part 11): April 23, 2007
Small Frog in A Big Pond (Part 10): April 23, 2007
Take Me Back to Manhattan (Part 9): April 23, 2007
Who Was That Ho I Saw You With?: April 16, 2007

A-Junketing We Will Go! (Part 8): April 16, 2007
My Years As A Journalistic Starlet in Oakland (Part 7): April 9, 2007
Portrait of the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 6: April 2, 2007

Portrait of the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 5: March 26, 2007
Portrait of the Journalist As A Young Rube--Part 4: March 19, 2007
Who, Me, President? Etc.: March 12, 2007
A View From the Brooklyn Bridge--Part Three: March 12, 2007
A View From the Brooklyn Bridge--Part Two: March 5, 2007
A View From the Brooklyn Bridge--Part One: Feb. 26, 2007
"The Queen": Feb. 19, 2007
I Blab, Therefore I Am: Jan. 29, 2007
Art Buchwald & The Art of Humor: Jan. 22, 2007
Signs of Les Times: Jan. 15, 2007
Hollywoodese Spoken Here: Jan. 1, 2007
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight--Ed Sullivan!: Dec. 18, 2006
The Cocktail Party--A Survival Manual: Dec. 4, 2006
All Aboard For Library Heaven: Oct. 23, 2006
Eat Your Heart Out, Michelin Man!: Oct. 9, 2006
Late-Breaking Interplanetary News: Sept. 4, 2006
Who Let the Dog Books Out?: Aug. 28, 2006
American Mythology: Aug. 14, 2006
Dumb-De-Dumb-Dumb: Aug. 7, 2006
My Date with Miss Right: July 3, 2006
The Swift Demise of Dan Rather: June 26, 2006
Your Drowsy Broadway Chaparone: June 19, 2006
Deadline Approaches For the Press: May 10, 2006
Baseball's Great Hot Dog Scandal: April 20, 2006
Whatever Happened to Russell Baker?: April 3, 2006
Anchors Away: March 27, 2006
Our Favorite Comic Book Heroes: March 6, 2006
The All-Time Jerrys: Feb. 27, 2006
Sitting Duck: Feb. 20, 2006
Famous Rejection Slips: Jan. 30, 2006
Designed For Disaster: Jan. 9, 2006
My Whack at Golf: Jan. 2, 2006
Single Bells, Single Bells, Single All the Way: Dec. 19, 2005
May I Show You the Door...?: Dec. 5, 2005
All Hail, Blue and White!: Nov. 14, 2005
Back To Unreality: Sept. 5, 2005
The Crazy Giraffes of Omaha: Aug. 15, 2005
The Fonda Syndrome: May 16, 2005
Beauty and the Best: May 2, 2005
The Celebrity Life: April 11, 2005
Very Advanced English 101: April 4, 2005
Broadway, Gimme A Break, Will Ya?: March 14, 2005
Ya Gotta Know the Territory--A True Believer's Guide to Musicals: March 7, 2005
Death of A Playwright: Feb. 21, 2005
Words From the Would-Be Wise: Feb. 7, 2005
One Last Time Around the Block: Jan. 31, 2005
Wherrre's Johnny?: Jan. 27, 2005
The People We Most Want To See Less of In 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
Tell the Home Run Goodbye!: Jan. 10, 2005
Food Fight: Jan. 3, 2005
Don't Date Yourself: Dec. 13, 2004
I'm A Member of the Liberal Minority: Nov. 15, 2004
How To Read A Newspaper: Aug. 30, 2004

God Loves Good Guys With Guns: July 5, 2004
Saint Ronnie: June 14, 2004
News For Incoming Martians: May 31, 2004
The Guy I Left Behind: May 17, 2004
Confessions of A Book Tour Slut: April 19, 2004
Paar For the Course: Feb. 2, 2004
DEAD--The Prequel: Feb. 2, 2004
My Life Upon the Wicked Stage: Jan. 19, 2004
Lenny's Garbled Legacy: Jan. 5, 2004
GOD Makes A Nice Comeback: Dec. 8, 2003
Return with Us...to Those Thrilling Formats of Yesteryear!: Sept. 1, 2003
Tomorrow's Gay Divorcees: Aug. 25, 2003
Bang-bang, We're Dead: March 24, 2003
Another Heartfelt Saga: March 10, 2003
Eureka! Classics Finally Out on DVD: Feb. 24, 2003
In Memory of...Two Mighty Pens: Jan. 27, 2003
Leaving An Impression: Jan. 13, 2003
On Writing: Inklings of A Career in Writing: Dec. 16, 2002
Latest Government Scare Tactics Unveiled: Dec. 2, 2002
Merchants of Grief: Sept. 9, 2002
Backstage: Sept. 2, 2002
A Comic Force of Nature: March 31, 2002
Beware Those Graven Images!: March 17, 2002
Here Come the Broadway Bio-Stars: Updated Jan. 13, 2002
Broadway's All-New Dark Age: Updated Dec. 16, 2001
"The Producers" Let Me Down: Dec. 2, 2001

Reflecting on Terror: Sept. 30, 2001
Take Me Out of the Ball Game!: May 13, 2001
"Klaatu, Borada, Nachman!": Feb. 4, 2001
Gerald Nachman's JAZZ!: Jan. 28, 2001
Gimme A B! Gimme A U! Gimme An S! Gimme An H!: Jan. 7, 2001
The Critics: Love 'em or Leave 'em: Nov. 1, 2000
Who's Laughing Anyway?: Sept. 27, 2000
Pop Go the Hollywood Weasels!: Sept. 13, 2000
O Where,O Where Have Those Pin-Up Girls Gone?: Aug. 23, 2000
Guilty Pleasures: July 11, 2000
Surviving Television's Latest Trend: June 28, 2000
So Many Opinions... So Little Time!: June 14, 2000
Our New (Silent) Movie Stars: April 26, 2000
Muzak, Muzak, Everywhere…And Not A Note I Like!: April 19, 2000
Crossdressing For Success: April 5, 2000
Let's Really Hear It For . . . Just About Anybody!: March 15, 2000
Shakespeare You Da Man! Feb. 16, 2000
Broadway Enters A New "Dark Age": Jan. 26, 2000
Now That Hollywood Is Thinking Small: Jan. 21, 2000
Babylon: The Director's Cut: Jan. 19, 2000
Best of the New Books Hot Off the Millennium Press: Jan. 12, 2000
If God Did TV Talk Shows: Dec. 3, 1999
Lamenting Lost Showtunes of Deservedly Obscure Composers: Dec. 1, 1999


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