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abruptly ended after he made an unwelcome comparison between the economic pressure on Fox that forced Ingraham to apologize for a tasteless tweet to the economic pressure needed on owners to make professional football safer for players.
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s Riff section, and to the literary website The Rumpus, where he writes frequently about the intersection of morality and politics titled "The Week in Greed." Almond's January 2023 interview with Laura Ingraham in support of
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After a decade of working with traditional publishers, Almond has self-published three books in recent years and become an outspoken advocate of self-publishing, which he has written about extensively in the
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Almond's books have been published in half a dozen foreign countries and translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian. He has published more than 150 stories in magazines such as
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Laura Ingraham quickly ended an interview on her show with activist and author Steve Almond after he raised a sensitive issue for the presenter
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band leader Ryan Walsh entitled "This Has Been A Disaster – Thanks For Having Us." Almond co-hosted the
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on May 12, 2006, in which he explained that his resignation was intended to protest the selection of
835:"Steven Almond | Miami New Times | the Leading Independent News Source in Miami, Florida" 566: 527: 436: 320: 241: 376: 341: 279: 221: 816: 476: 364: 66: 374:. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies. Almond also reviews books for 1053: 834: 801: 772: 768: 470: 405: 388: 274: 734: 431: 426: 382: 1130: 738: 612: 571: 250: 102: 1104: 540: 525:, both based in Boston. On October 27, 2011, Almond appeared as a guest on the podcast 499: 421: 245: 396:
in Boston, at the Sanibel Writer's Conference, and the Tin House Writer's Conference.
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as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker. He later appeared on the
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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for five years until publishing an open letter of resignation in
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and was named the Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year.
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life: Bookmarked
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to discuss his decision. Almond is a regular contributor to
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and has been optioned for film by Spilt Milk Entertainment.
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Almond served as adjunct professor in creative writing at
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Video of Steve Almond interview on Fox television show
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
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Steve Almond in 2009
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short-story writer
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Henry M. Gunn High School
Wesleyan University
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