Maralyn Lois Polak

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Maralyn Lois Polak
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  • Columnist
  • author
  • screenwriter
  • poet
  • editor
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Maralyn Lois Polak is an American columnist, screenwriter, performance poet, spoken word artist, novelist and journalist. [1] [2]

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Career

In collaboration with architect Benjamin Nia, Polak co-created the 25-minute documentary My Hometown: Preservation or Development? about the threatened demolition of 19th century buildings near Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square, and preservationists' efforts to save them from a developer's wrecking ball. [3]

Her journalistic career also includes a long stint with the mainstream media as nationally syndicated weekly celebrity interview columnist for Knight Ridder and the now-defunct Sunday Magazine of The Philadelphia Inquirer , where she did over a thousand columns. [4] [5]

Polak was a commentary columnist for the online news site WorldNetDaily . [6]

Polak authored the experimental online meta-novel, IMAGINARY PLAYMATES/Man in Her Mind: Further Adventures of Boris and Natasha, serialized weekly for six months on the former political-literary website FemmeSoul.Com, and a cartoon book, Anoushka on Her Deathbed: 101 Cartoons From the Abyss. [7]

Polak's reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in the Chicago Tribune [5] and The New York Times . [8]

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