I heard this morning about the President’s Nobel Peace Prize. It was followed by laughter, and the running joke of the morning: “I thought I was reading The Onion” people said. The incredulousness is deep on both the left and the right. Mr. Obama needs to think long and hard about accepting this award. The vapidity of the criteria used for his selection could ratify in the public mind the vapidity of his prior and current achievements.
Douglas Barone
- Douglas Barone Douglas Barone is a writer living in New York. He's studied literature and writing at The New School for Social Research and in Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Schultz' Writers Studio. At The New School he studied under Sharon Mesmer (The Virgin Formica / In Ordinary Time) Sidney Offit (Memoir of a Bookies Son) Joshua Gaylord (Hummingbirds) Robert Boyers (ed. Salmagundi literary journal) and Justice Rosenberg. He is an undergraduate alumnus of St. Lawrence University and a graduate alumnus of Loyola University. He is a member of the Center for Fiction in New York. In both 2010 and 2011 he was selected to study with Rick Moody at the New York State Writer's Institute at Skidmore College.
