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Aug 01, 2016 david plotz, outside the brewmasters castle in dupont, sees a media business in curiosities and wonders. The bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, marvelous, and inspiring things i learned when i read every single word of the bible wrote a book about reading every word of the bible, hell understand when dr. If plotz is not really as ignorant as his publisher makes him sound, then i apologize to him. She is cofounder of doublex, a womens site connected to the online magazine slate. Browse david plotzs bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. Transcript by adam davidson, david plotz, may 18, 2015. A writer with slate since its inception in 1996, plotz was the online magazines editor from june 2008 until july 2014, 5 succeeding jacob weisberg. View david plotzs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. David plotzs chapterbychapter, versebyverse riffs on the hebrew bible are by turns entertaining, serious, shallow, profound, literalminded. How atlas obscura is building the nice vice washingtonian. People found it unusual to leave a job where youre the boss. From 2014 to 2020, plotz was ceo of atlas obscura, the media and experiences company devoted to celebrating and visiting the worlds most wondrous places.
Good book is what happens when a regular guy an average job actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. She is the cohost of the npr podcast invisibilia with alix spiegel. Dec 16, 2006 david plotz is the deputy editor for the online magazine slate, where he writes the feature blogging the bible. Ezekiel hosea joel, amos, and obadiah jonah, micah, and nahum habakkuk, zephaniah, haggai, zechariah, and malachi psalms proverbs job song of songs ruth lamentations and ecclesiastes esther daniel. Mar 03, 2009 thanks to david plotzs amazing book, i will never have to read the bible. Ive been recommending slate editor david plotzs recently published good book the bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, marvelous, and inspiring things i learned when i read every single word of the bible.
See all books authored by david plotz, including good book. Apr 12, 2007 the book of jobs enthralling, baffling conclusion. The bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, marvelous, and inspiring things i learned when i read every single word of the bible. I wrote a book about a sperm bank for nobel prize winners.
A writer with slate since its inception in 1996, plotz was the online magazines editor from june 2008 until july 2014, succeeding jacob weisberg early life and career. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Rosin writes for the atlantic, and has written for the washington post, the new yorker, gq. David plotz is editor at large at business insider, where he writes the insider today newsletter with henry blodget. Kyle sampson variety, elihu is even more obnoxious than the other threeeven more aggressive, even more smug, and even ruder to poor old job. Read a sample read a sample read a sample enlarge book cover. Photograph by jeff elkins one day in 2014, soon after david plotz left his job as editor of the online magazine slate, he took his then year. Mar 01, 2009 good book is a summary of the old testament, told by david plotz, an editor for slate magazine. It is his sincere effort to better understand the bible but his compendium is sarcastic, sardonic, and hilarious. Good book is what happens when a regular guy an average job actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture. One interesting note about the publicity surrounding the good book, slate editor david plotzs chronicle of reading the bible. I thoroughly enjoyed david plotz book since it pretty much agreed with what i thought.
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