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WORK TITLE: Bears in the Streets
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WEBSITE: http://lisadickey.com/
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SKETCHWRITER NOTE: She only wrote one book. For all the others she was either a book doctor or a ghostwriter.
PERSONAL
Married Randi Barnes (a writer), 2010.
EDUCATION:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1988.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Worked in Russia as a nanny, driver, and interpreter, 1988-89; worked in Washington, DC, 1989-94; journalist, 1994–. Formerly worked as a Russian translator. Public speaker and storyteller, including appearances at Moth Story Slam, Eat Your Words, and Drunk on Stage at Akbar; guest on media programs, including the online news site Recode; also performed as a lounge singer in Japan.
WRITINGS
Contributor to periodicals, including Moscow Times, Russian Life, St. Petersburg Press, USA Today, and Washington Post. Also worked as a ghostwriter for various celebrity memoirs. Coauthor of There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future, 2003.
SIDELIGHTS
Lisa Dickey’s writing career began in Russia in 1994, but she first visited the country in 1988, during the Soviet era. Armed with a new bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dickey landed a job with the family of an American diplomat serving in Moscow. She spent the next several months as a nanny, followed by some work as a driver and interpreter.
Dickey returned to the United States for a few years, but in 1994 she went back to Russia, this time as a freelance writer. She worked as a copy editor in St. Petersburg until 1995, when photographer Gary Matoso convinced her to join him on a three-month journey across Russia for an Internet documentary called Russia Chronicles. Dickey then spent a year or more in St. Petersburg, filing articles for American and Russian periodicals.
In 1997, back in the United States, Dickey’s career took a bit of a detour. She was hired as a ghostwriter or so-called “book doctor” for Washington Post journalist Kara Swisher. The reporter was putting together the inside story of media giant American Online, which she titled AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web. Swisher went on to become a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and published another version of the AOL story, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future, this time with Dickey credited as a collaborator. Dickey built a successful career in this new role, contributing her skills to nearly twenty books by celebrities from several walks of life. The primary authors included musician Herbie Hancock, entertainer Cissy Houston, politician Ben Barnes, venture capitalist Ruthann Quindlen, and journalist Euna Lee, who spent months as a prisoner in North Korea, as well as others in instances where Dickey’s contribution remained behind the scenes, unacknowledged.
Dickey also pursued projects of her own. In 2005 she returned to Russia, this time with photographer David Hillegas. They retraced the steps of Matoso’s original video travelogue, tracking down the people Dickey had met in 1995 to trade updates on their lives. This Internet documentary, The Russian Chronicles: Ten Years Later, was released at WashingtonPost.com.
Letter to Anita
Back home again and married to screenwriter Randi Barnes, Dickey was credited as a writer of the 2014 documentary film Letter to Anita, the story of beauty-pageant celebrity Anita Bryant’s 1977 Save Our Children campaign, which contributed to the repeal of a local ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals. The film showcased the impact of Bryant’s activism on Floridian Ronni Sanlo, who ended up losing custody of her children after her lesbian orientation became a matter of public record.
The film won the Audience Award for best documentary feature at the annual Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival that year. Dickey also made her debut as a storyteller. Her performance evolved into a series of appearances at the Moth Story Slam, Don’t Tell My Mother, Eat Your Words, Drunk on Stage, and other live stage events.
Bears in the Streets
In 2015 Dickey made her third journey across Russia, and the result was her first book as sole author. Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia is a story of change and permanence. Over the twenty years between Dickey’s first travel journey in 1995 and her third in 2015, the Russian nation has been shaped and reshaped by changing times. Political leadership and economic stability have fluctuated, along with the country’s standing on the world stage. Technological innovation has advanced accomplishments in Russian science, medicine, industry, defense and security, and telecommunications. Despite increased access to global media, however, many of Dickey’s original acquaintances remained relatively unchanged by time.
Bears in the Streets follows the path of the original video journey from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg. Dickey devotes a chapter to each destination, comparing and contrasting past and present in Stalin’s regional homeland, for example, and the transition of Chelyabinsk from provincial industrial center to site of a devastating 2013 meteor explosion that attracted worldwide attention. In numerous before-and-after photographs, Dickey documents changes both favorable (increased tourism) and negative (environmental deterioration), as well as landscapes unchanged (sheep farming among indigenous Buryats in Mongolia).
Dickey’s primary focus, however, is not geographical–it is personal. Eric Johnson reported in his review at the Recode website: “The misconceptions that Americans and Russians have about one another mostly stayed the same.” Americans continue to mistrust the government-controlled Russian media outlets, and Russians suspect American media reports of anti-Russian bias. Americans mistrust prime minister-turned president Vladimir Putin, and Dickey’s contacts hadn’t admired an American president since Ronald Reagan (in conversations recorded toward the end of the Obama administration). In fact, Dickey learned that anti-American opinion was nearly ubiquitous among the general population.
Critics have been kind. A reviewer in Russian Life, to which Dickey has been a contributor, credited the author for her “invaluable perspective,” as well as “insider observations and self-deprecating humor.” A Kirkus Reviews contributor found Bears in the Streets to be filled with “nuanced portraits” in a “travelogue that reveals true Russian personality.” In Booklist, Eloise Kinney called it “truly heartwarming,” a testament to “the honesty and openness of the people she visits.”
BIOCRIT
BOOKS
Dickey, Lisa, Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia, St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY), 2017.
PERIODICALS
Booklist, December 1, 2016, Eloise Kinney, review of Bears in the Streets, p. 11.
Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2016, review of Bears in the Streets.
Russian Life, January-February, 2017, review of Bears in the Streets, p. 62.
ONLINE
Lisa Dickey Website, http://lisadickey.com (August 27, 2017).
Recode, https://www.recode.net/ (July 10, 2017), Eric Johnson, “Russians and Americans Are More Similar than They Realize.”
Washington Post Online, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ (August 31, 2005), author profile.*
A longtime book collaborator, Lisa Dickey has helped clients write 17 published nonfiction books, including eight New York Times Best Sellers. Her most recent collaboration, Then Comes Marriage, by Roberta Kaplan with Lisa Dickey, was named a top ten book of 2015 by both The Los Angeles Times and Ms. Magazine.
Lisa began her writing career in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she wrote articles for The Moscow Times, Russian Life magazine and USA Today. Upon returning to the United States in late 1996, she worked with then-Washington Post reporter Kara Swisher on her first book, AOL.COM. From that initial collaboration, Lisa launched a career as a ghostwriter and book doctor.
Over the next two decades, Lisa worked with high-profile clients such as Patrick Swayze, Gavin Newsom, Cissy Houston, Herbie Hancock, Cathie Black, and Whitewater partner Susan McDougal. Her collaborations have spanned a vast array of topics, from politics to business to entertainment to international relations. Click here for a full list of books, and here for reviews.
***Note from sketchwriter: for books not included in LOC entries, she is only the uncredited ghostwriter, not coauthor.***
Lisa is also an accomplished storyteller on stage, appearing at live events such as the Moth Story Slam, the Moth Grand Slam, Don’t Tell My Mother, Eat Your Words, and Drunk on Stage at Akbar. She is a credited writer on the award-winning documentary film Letter to Anita and a contributor to Larry Smith’s The Best Advice in Six Words.
Prior to her writing career, Lisa worked as a Russian translator and, for nine glorious months, as a lounge singer in Japan. She has served as a juror for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards and for the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Program. A 1988 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, she lives with her wife, the TV and film writer Randi Barnes, in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Lisa Dickey
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Lisa Dickey, a native of Pensacola, Florida, is an American author and book collaborator. Since 1997, she has helped write and/or edit 17 nonfiction books, in fields ranging from technology to politics to Hollywood memoirs. Eight books she worked on have been on the New York Times best seller or extended best seller lists.[1] In January 2017, St. Martin's Press published her first non-collaborative book, Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Career
2 Personal life
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External links
Career[edit]
Dickey began her writing career in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia,[3] where she wrote for The St. Petersburg Press, The Moscow Times,[4] and Russian Life.[5] In 1995, she and photographer Gary Matoso spent three months traveling across Russia, posting photos and stories to The Russian Chronicles, an early Web travelogue.[6]
In 2005, Dickey recreated the 1995 trip with photographer David Hillegas, again traveling across Russia to track down the people she and Matoso had met and report on how their lives had changed. That project – The Russian Chronicles: Ten Years Later – ran for eleven weeks on the Washingtonpost.com website.[7]
Dickey began her ghostwriting / book doctor career in 1997, when she assisted then-Washington Post reporter Kara Swisher in completing her book AOL.COM. Her book clients have included gospel singer Cissy Houston, California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, former Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, and actor Patrick Swayze.[8]
Personal life[edit]
In 2010, Dickey married the TV and film writer Randi Barnes.[9] They live in Los Angeles.
PODCASTS
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Russians and Americans are more similar than they realize, ‘Bears in the Streets’ author Lisa Dickey says
Not all Americans are Donald Trump, so we shouldn’t think of all Russians as being Vladimir Putin, Dickey says on Recode Decode.
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Between 1995 and 2015, Lisa Dickey made three trips all the way across Russia, and in that time, a lot changed — politics, the economy and especially technology. But as Dickey recounts in her new book “Bears in the Streets,” <
The book draws its title from a line Dickey heard from many Russians in 2015: “You Americans all just think that we have bears wandering around in the streets here.” And, as she pointed out, even if some Americans do think that, we have lots of wild bears, too.
“They feel like we don’t respect them,” she said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. “They feel like we don’t pay attention to them. Now, of course, we’re paying attention to Russia all the time, and I think that makes them feel — and this is a gross exaggeration to say ‘everybody’ — but I do think there is a certain segment of Russian society that does feel like, ‘Now you can pay attention to us again, just like you did when it was two superpowers.’”
There, as it does here, the media plays a big role in shaping how regular people think about the outside world. Most of the people Dickey interviewed on her trips got their news from Kremlin-controlled TV and — although she didn’t take Donald Trump seriously enough to ask about him in 2015 — she did get some interesting feedback on America’s presidents.
“They kept saying, ‘He’s so awful, all he does it lie, you can’t believe a word that he says,’” Dickey recalled people saying of Barack Obama. “And then someone said, ‘It’s never good for Russia when a Democrat is in office.’ I said, ‘All right, did you like George W. Bush?’ ‘Ugh, no! We hated him, too!’ Then I said, ‘Are there any presidents that we had that you liked or admired?’ ‘Ronald Reagan.’”
You can listen to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher and SoundCloud.
Just as Americans are now alarmed by Russian hackers’ alleged interference in the 2016 election, Dickey said the Russian people were suspicious of how America’s media was purportedly trying to undermine them. She remembered an unexpectedly contentious trip to the movie theater to see “The Martian” — in which America turns to China for help in getting Matt Damon off of Mars.
“[A friend] said, ‘I cannot believe — who would ever suggest that you would ask China instead of Russia?’” Dickey said. “He was so offended by that. And he was convinced that the American government forced the filmmakers to make this choice, just to screw with Russia.”
And even among the people with the greatest access to outside information — like a rapper named MC Pavlov or a cosmopolitan young woman who had the means to travel the world — anti-American sentiment was intense.
“She almost immediately leapt into telling me why the Russian press is more free than the American press, why the Russian people are more free than the American people and that 9/11 was an inside job,” Dickey said of the wealthy young woman. “I just said to her, ‘I’m not the hugest homer about my country, we’re not perfect, but I’ve got to tell you, you’re really wrong about this.’”
“Although, look what’s happening with our press not being able to film the press conferences at the White House, and everything is ‘fake news,’” she added. “We’re definitely moving down the path.”
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Russian Chronicles
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Lisa Dickey first lived in Russia during the Soviet era, moving to Moscow in August of 1988 to work as a nanny for a U.S. diplomatic family. In the spring of 1989 she was briefly employed as a driver and interpreter for Time magazine, a career move that ended when she wrecked a brand new Mercedes trying to beat an oncoming government truck into a gas station.
Lisa then moved to Washington D.C., where she held a variety of positions, none for very long. In 1994, she decided to return to Russia, moving to St. Petersburg to launch a career as a freelance writer. She eked out a living editing copy for the local English-language newspaper before being invited by photographer Gary Matoso to join him for the Russia Chronicles, a three-month Web documentary trip across Russia in the fall of 1995.
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Following the Russian Chronicles trip, Lisa remained in St. Petersburg another year, writing articles for USA Today, the Moscow Times and Russian Life magazine, among other publications. She returned to Washington, D.C. in 1997 and started her career as a freelance "book doctor," specializing in nonfiction books on business and political topics. Over the next six years, she helped clients write five published nonfiction books including a New York Times Best Seller and a Booklist Top Ten Business Book. Published books she has worked on include:
" There Must Be A Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Search for A Digital Future, by Kara Swisher with Lisa Dickey. (Crown, 2003).
" The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons, and What I Learned in Jail, by Susan McDougal with Pat Harris. (Carroll & Graf, 2003).
" Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution, by James B. Murray, Jr. (Perseus, 2001).
" Confessions of a Venture Capitalist, by Ruthann Quindlen. (Warner Books, 2000)
" AOL.COM: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, by Kara Swisher. (Random House, 1998)
Lisa most recently worked on two forthcoming political memoirs, those of former U.S. Senator Charles S. Robb and of former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes. A 1988 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, she was fluent in Russian 10 years ago but is finding to her dismay that it's now a little rusty.
Bears In The Streets
Russian Life.
60.1 (January-February 2017): p62.
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Lisa Dickey (St. Martin's $25.99)
Dickey (a three-time contributor to Russian Life) takes a longitudinal approach in this travel essay cum memoir,
compiling and interweaving impressions and experiences from three different trans-Russia adventures (1995, 2005 and
2015). This approach--as she revisits and gets reaquainted with friends and places provides an <
Russia's changes over the last three decades. But it is Dickey's easy and enjoyable style, full of <
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a
Changing Russia
Eloise Kinney
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113.7 (Dec. 1, 2016): p11.
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia. By Lisa Dickey. Jan. 2017.336p. illus. St. Martin's,
$25.99 (97812500922981.914.7.
The title refers to Russians saying ruefully that Americans think they are so backward that bears roam their streets.
Dickey proves this isn't so by portraying people from a variety of locations across Russia, from Vladivostok to
Novosibirsk to Moscow, in 1995, 2005, and 2015. More than a neat conceit, this is a delightful depiction of passing
time in a place many Americans and others fear, admire, or despise. Quite the storyteller and traveling companion,
Dickey shares colorful anecdotes of teaching new Russian friends poker, slaughtering a sheep for dinner, and admiring
how the setting sun plays off a Lenin statue. She also muses on how social media has made her travels and interactions
so much easier. Filled with then-and-now photographs, Dickey's travelogue is <
from <
people on nearly everything, from homosexuality to Putin. Fascinating and a balm to readers enduring the current
xenophobic plague. --Eloise Kinney
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Dickey, Lisa: BEARS IN THE STREETS
Kirkus Reviews.
(Oct. 15, 2016):
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Adventures in Russia over three trips in 20 years.In 1995, Los Angeles-based ghostwriter Dickey ventured to Russia in
her late 20s in order to perfect her Russian and ply her trade as a writer. A fortuitous advertisement and encounter with
American photojournalist Gary Matoso resulted in a three-month trek from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, where Dickey
was based, meeting people in the Russian hinterlands and chronicling personal stories along the way. After her initial
trip resulted in a blog, the author returned in 2005 to track down many of the same people the journalist duo had met in
1995. Finally, in 2015, Dickey returned alone to write this spirited account of regular Russians living in a vastly
changed landscape from her 1995 visit. Moving back and forth to compare her earlier trips, Dickey witnessed the rise of
tourism, once virtually unheard of; the flourishing of the once-vilified Jewish community in Birobidzhan despite the
fact that many of the Jewish people she first met in 1995 had left; the rise of small entrepreneurs struggling in the wake
of the "ruble krizis" such as in Chita, in eastern Siberia; the Buryat farmers of Galtai, who still slaughter sheep in the
manner of Genghis Khan; the environmental damages to the magnificent freshwater Lake Baikal; the underground gay
scene in Novosibirsk; and the travails of a Moscow rap star, among other stories. Now in middle age and married to a
woman in LA, Dickey had to come out to many of her Russian acquaintances unfamiliar with lesbianism, and she
dreaded their disapproval. However, despite the general anti-Western sentiment she endured--President Barack Obama
was considered untrustworthy, while Ukraine was claimed as Russian--the author presents <
affecting <
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Lisa Dickey: BEARS IN THE STREETS
Kirkus Reviews.
(Oct. 15, 2016):
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Lisa Dickey BEARS IN THE STREETS St. Martin's (Adult Nonfiction) 25.99 ISBN: 978-1-250-09229-8
Adventures in Russia over three trips in 20 years.In 1995, Los Angeles–based ghostwriter Dickey ventured to
Russia in her late 20s in order to perfect her Russian and ply her trade as a writer. A fortuitous advertisement and
encounter with American photojournalist Gary Matoso resulted in a three-month trek from Vladivostok to St.
Petersburg, where Dickey was based, meeting people in the Russian hinterlands and chronicling personal stories along
the way. After her initial trip resulted in a blog, the author returned in 2005 to track down many of the same people the
journalist duo had met in 1995. Finally, in 2015, Dickey returned alone to write this spirited account of regular Russians
living in a vastly changed landscape from her 1995 visit. Moving back and forth to compare her earlier trips, Dickey
witnessed the rise of tourism, once virtually unheard of; the flourishing of the once-vilified Jewish community in
Birobidzhan despite the fact that many of the Jewish people she first met in 1995 had left; the rise of small
entrepreneurs struggling in the wake of the “ruble krizis” such as in Chita, in eastern Siberia; the
Buryat farmers of Galtai, who still slaughter sheep in the manner of Genghis Khan; the environmental damages to the
magnificent freshwater Lake Baikal; the underground gay scene in Novosibirsk; and the travails of a Moscow rap star,
among other stories. Now in middle age and married to a woman in LA, Dickey had to come out to many of her
Russian acquaintances unfamiliar with lesbianism, and she dreaded their disapproval. However, despite the general
anti-Western sentiment she endured—President Barack Obama was considered untrustworthy, while Ukraine
was claimed as Russian—the author presents nuanced portraits. An affecting travelogue that reveals true
Russian personality.
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Hancock, Herbie & Lisa Dickey. Herbie
Hancock: Possibilities
Claude Ury
Library Journal.
139.15 (Sept. 15, 2014): p80.
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Hancock, Herbie & Lisa Dickey. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities. Viking. Oct. 2014. 352p. index. ISBN 9780670014712.
$29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101614549. MUSIC
This brilliant memoir looks at musician and composer Hancock, whose life and career spans some seven decades. It
reveals the method behind this remarkable jazz performer, from his beginnings as a child prodigy to his work with the
Miles Davis Quintet and his later career forming his own band and providing music for films such as Harlem Nights
and 'Round Midnight. Hancock relates anecdotes about his musical influences, his happy marriage, and how Buddhism
inspired his music. Most recently he has lectured at Harvard University on the ethics of jazz, served as a UNESCO
Goodwill Ambassador, and been honored by the Kennedy Center. This book's message is that people can turn any
adversity or struggle into something of value. VERDICT Anyone interested in jazz would do well to read this
outstanding account by a renowned keyboardist and composer, as it will appeal to all readers and is a testament to a
man who faced in life what seemed impossible and made it possible. Also recommended is Bob Gluck's You'll Know
When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band (2012).--Claude Ury, San Francisco
Ury, Claude
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Media mergers and you
Leslie Brokaw
The Women's Review of Books.
21.6 (Mar. 2004): p15.
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There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: the AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future by Kara
Swisher with Lisa Dickey. New York: Crown Business, 2003, 294 pp., $24.95 hardcover.
The title of Kara Swisher's endlessly entertaining There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere refers to a joke told by
Ronald Reagan and then repeated regularly, and more coarsely, around the offices of America Online (AOL) during its
early days. The story goes like this: A young boy finds a pile of horse manure and, wide-eyed, starts digging into it.
When a passerby asks what he's doing, he says, "There must be a pony in here somewhere!" The brash, aggressive,
visionary AOL was like that--facing one disaster after another during through the 1990s, but remaining as optimistic as
a kid digging through dung.
Swishers 1998 book, aol.com, outlined the rise of AOL from before 1991, the year that Quantum Computer Services
renamed itself America Online, to its complete domination of the consumer Internet market in 1998. This new book
both summarizes aol.com and picks up on the company's extraordinary story of the past five years, outlining just how a
dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) managed the astonishing coup of buying Time Warner in January 2000. (Swisher
explains that what was termed at the time a merger between equals was really a buyout. Despite bringing just 18 percent
of the combined revenues to the table, AOL, because of its wildly inflated stock price at the dine of the deal, ended up
with 56 percent of the new company.) The creation was the biggest media company in the world, a combo-platter of
businesses whose revenues totaled more than $30 billion.
But the buyout is just the book's setup: What There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere really focuses on are all the
ways that the merger has been a near total disaster and what that will mean for the assimilation of old and new media in
the future. If you follow American corporate business news, many of the details will be familiar--the company's
crashing stock prices, fallen leaders, and the widespread resentment by each side of the other. If you don't follow
business news, this book provides a full service tour of the greed of the early Internet years and the setting aside of
commonly held business rules, the challenges of mixing old and new media, and ways that print companies and webfocused
companies might better partner in the future. It's all punctuated by Swisher's charmingly light touch.
Swisher is probably the best journalist around to tell this slice of Internet and communications history: She began
covering AOL in 1994 as a reporter at The Washington Post and continued writing about it as technology columnist at
The Wall Street Journal, where she works today. In 1999, the white-heat year of the online explosion, Swisher was
named "the Internet economy's most influential journalist" by the magazine most closely connected to the niche, The
Industry Standard. And, like most journalists, she has a web of personal connections in the field through family and
friends; in her author's note she mentions that her partner Megan Smith used to be a top executive at PlanetOut, which
AOL invested in. This book is peppered with direct quotes collected by Swisher going back a decade and careful
borrowing from other journalistic sources. (Swisher is generous to her colleagues in her citations, quoting from, for
instance, the "talented Carol Loomis" at Fortune and "a typically excellent Newsweek column" by Allan Sloan.) More
than all that, though, her writing is a treat: funny and smart.
The first half of the book, particularly the prologue and chapters one and two, outlines the entire story in broadbrush
and then dives into the AOL piece of the puzzle. (In fact, those sections plus chapter five make a nicely condensed
version of the book). Most of us were part of this story as consumers--at some point in the past ten years, it's likely that
you or someone in your family had an AOL account. You probably know from personal experience the inherent
incongruity about AOL: The service was lousy, but everyone joined anyway. Customers faced random disconnections,
mangled text attachments, infantilizing news headlines, endless pop-up ads, a mother lode of raunchy spare, and a
design that looks, as Swisher puts it, "like a brochure rack at a tourist rest stop." And still they came. "Even though it
completely dominated its competition throughout the late 1990s, no one could ever quite believe AOL was succeeding,"
writes Swisher. "After the CompuServe purchase in 1997, Fortune magazine pictured [company chief] Steve Case on
the cover under the headline 'Surprise! AOL Wins!' How could this be happening? Didn't AOL suck?"
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Well, it did, particularly if you had better Internet options through your office or school. But making sense of ISPs and
POP3 servers was too intimidating for most people, and millions were happy to have AOL's Internet training wheels.
"The genius in Steve Case lay not in developing the most sophisticated, versatile product he could, but in realizing that
most people wanted the exact opposite of that," writes Swisher. "Most average users simply longed for a convenient
way to be part of this great new communications medium without doing a lot of heavy lifting." AOL created a new
world of online community--from buddy lists to chat rooms to instant messaging--that changed in deep ways how
people communicate and how they spend their free time.
Swisher explains that while AOL was sopping up customers, there was trouble in media's parallel universe: Time Inc.
had joined with Warner Communications in January 1989, and "by all accounts, many considered it one of the worst
mergers ever consummated," she writes. There were inevitable power struggles, and here the book becomes a little
dizzying in its detailing of the players from both sides. These are the men who founded some of the biggest media
operations in the world: Gerald Levin, who later became head of AOL Time Warner, launched HBO for Time Inc.;
future AOL chief Bob Pittman co-founded MTV.
When Levin became CEO of Time Warner, he decided the company lacked "Internet DNA." The pursuit of AOL was
his answer, but, as with the Time Warner merger ten years earlier, the 2000 union with the Dulles, Virginia, company
turned out to be a cultural nightmare. AOL's managers were perceived by their New York partners as not just geeky--
they expected that--but infuriatingly cocky as well. AOL's staff had "little media experience, but a lot of hubris that
their way was the way of the future," writes Swisher; they "rampaged through Time Warner with little care and no sense
of respect."
The companies couldn't click in basic strategic ways, either. The fact that AOL couldn't get included in the package of
cable services that Time Warner was already selling to consumers--even after they were all part of the same company--
"was the single clearest indicator that the merger was never going to work," Swisher says. Financially, the new
company ended up being worth less than the sum of its parts. By the merger's one-year anniversary in January 2002, the
joint company's stock had dropped to a 52-week low. And last September, after this book had gone to press, AOL Time
Warner dropped the "AOL" from its name in a move acknowledged to be the clearest symbol yet of the merger's failure.
At the time, Richard Parsons, the chair and CEO of the company said, "We believe that our new name better reflects the
portfolio of our valuable businesses and ends any confusion between our corporate name and the America Online brand
name for our investors, partners and the public." Talk about cold shouldering half of your company.
Women are nearly absent from this book--Meg Whitman, CEO of the enormously successful eBay (which had
partnership deals with AOL), gets the briefest of mentions, and the highest female AOL exec covered here, Jan Brandt,
the marketer responsible for flooding America with AOL software disks, gets as much ink in the book as RuPaul. Ann
Moore, who became chair and CEO of Time Inc. in July 2002 after 24 years with that company, is mentioned once.
The lack of women players in this coalescence of media giants hints at the broader topic of why media consolidation is
a feminist issue. The National Organization for Women, for instance, lists "Media Activism" right alongside "Economic
Equality" and "Judicial Nominations" as one of its 21 Key Issues on its website, and NOW came out in opposition to
last June's Federal Communications Commission decision to relax its already soft rules about how many broadcast
outlets any one company can own. "Our media content is being filtered through five profit-driven corporate giants," said
NOW President Kim Gandy. "How much worse can it get? Much worse. The new FCC rules threaten to shut out
women and people of color from top-level participation in the media industry and virtually eliminate local
programming." Concentrated ownership means fewer independent voices in the media, and that means it's going to be
harder than ever to find a pony of intelligent thinking within the crap heap of stories about Britney Spears, Michael
Jackson, and Ben Affleck.
Brokaw, Leslie
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Kaplan, Roberta with Lisa Dickey. Then Comes
Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the
Defeat of DOMA
Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook
Library Journal.
140.15 (Sept. 15, 2015): p90.
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Kaplan, Roberta with Lisa Dickey. Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA. Norton.
Oct. 2015.336p. photos, index. ISBN 9780393248678. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393248685. LAW
Lead attorney Kaplan brings us a behind-the-scenes, insider view of the titular Windsor case from inception to U.S.
Supreme Court decision. A litigation partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Kaplan has been involved in
the legal struggle for queer family rights since the mid-1990s. In 2009, the author was approached about the possibility
of representing Edie Windsor (who provides the foreword to the book) in her claim against the federal government over
nonrecognition of her marriage to Thea Spyer following Spyer's death. Kaplan would end up taking the case pro bono
and making an appearance before the Supreme Court. Kaplan weaves her own story of coming out, marriage, and
family life into a tale of nail-biting legal strategy that culminates in the 2013 decision striking down the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional. Although the mainstream media has often focused on male advocates of
marriage rights for same-sex couples, Kaplan's book reminds us of how many women have been central to marriage
equality's recent legal victories. VERDICT Readers with an interest in constitutional law and Supreme Court politics, as
well as the road to marriage equality, will find this account deliciously gripping. [See Pre pub Alert, 5/4/15.]--Anna J.
Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc. Lib., Boston
Clutterbuck-Cook, Anna J.
Source Citation (MLA 8th
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Clutterbuck-Cook, Anna J. "Kaplan, Roberta with Lisa Dickey. Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and
the Defeat of DOMA." Library Journal, 15 Sept. 2015, p. 90. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA429499597&it=r&asid=48f0fa8733f9d2a0d0b839588126c5f4.
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Swisher, Kara with Lisa Dickey. There Must Be a
Pony in Here Somewhere: the AOL Time Warner
Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future
Richard Drezen
Library Journal.
128.19 (Nov. 15, 2003): p78.
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Crown Business. 2003. c.304p. index. ISBN 1-4000-4963-6. $24.95. BUS
Swisher, a noted Wall Street Journal columnist, has written an authoritative account of the AOL and Time Warner
corporate merger, which was called "the deal of the century" when it was announced in January 2000. This is a popular
subject right now; Swisher's is the second book published on the merger (after Alec Klein's Stealing Time), and others
are on the way. Unfortunately, matters have only gone from bad to worse for AOL Time Warner, resulting in enormous
losses to the company, coupled with a staggering stock price drop, ongoing investigations into accounting fraud and
other alleged criminality, the exit of many executives, and a recent decision by the company to drop AOL from the
corporate name. How did this come about? The author feels that AOL's Steve Case and Time Warner's Jerry Levin
relentlessly pushed the deal through, overlooking obvious "red flags" that, if dealt with, could have prevented the
disaster. Swisher was there reporting on all of it, and her deft, often probing narrative is highly entertaining and
instructive, as it sheds light on this corporate train wreck. Recommended for large business collections.--Richard
Drezen, "Washington Post," New York
Drezen, Richard
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Drezen, Richard. "Swisher, Kara with Lisa Dickey. There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: the AOL Time Warner
Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future." Library Journal, 15 Nov. 2003, p. 78. General OneFile,
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Euna Lee and Lisa Dickey: The World is Bigger
Now: An American Journalist's Rescue from
Captivity in North Korea ... A Remarkable Story
of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
Library Journal.
135.11 (June 15, 2010): pS9.
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Euna Lee and Lisa Dickey
THE WORLD IS BIGGER NOW: An American Journalist's Rescue from Captivity in North Korea ... A Remarkable
Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
On March 17, 2009, Euna Lee and her Current TV colleague, Laura Ling, were taken prisoner by North Korean
officials. This is Euna's account of her experience: what led to her arrival in North Korea, her efforts to negotiate on her
own behalf with the North Korean authorities, and how she and Laura were finally released. National publicity & TV
appearances; 3-city tour; Reading group guide available online at www.CrownReads.com. Los Angeles, CA
978-0-307-71613-2 | $25.00/$28.95C | 100,000 | Broadway | HC | September | [Audio] [e-Book]
MEMOIR & BIO
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"Euna Lee and Lisa Dickey: The World is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Rescue from Captivity in North
Korea ... A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness." Library Journal, 15 June 2010, p. S9. General
OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: the
AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the
Digital Future
Publishers Weekly.
250.39 (Sept. 29, 2003): p57.
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KARA SWISHER WITH LISA DICKEY. Crown, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 1-4000-4963-6
In an always lively, sometimes glib style, Swisher, writing with Dickey, recounts the forces that led to the biggest media
deal in history and then traces the downward spiral of the combined AOL Time Warner. In the late 1990s, executives of
AOL, led by Steve Case, were looking to capitalize on AOL's sky-high stock price by completing a transforming
acquisition with a major media company. At the same time, Time Warner, burned by several failed online ventures, was
looking for a way to make sure it didn't become an anachronism in the new age of the Internet. So when Case met Time
Warner CEO Gerald Levin, the combination seemed like a sure winner. A preliminary merger agreement was
announced in January 2000 with great fanfare, but within a year, and before the deal was even officially completed,
there were signs of the problems that would lead to the ouster of nearly every one associated with the merger. The
Internet bubble, which had driven up AOL's stock price to unsustainable heights, burst, dragging down its share price.
And the skidding price exacerbated what was already a difficult task of meshing AOL's corporate culture with that of
Time Warner. Swisher (AOL.com), a columnist with the Wall Street Journal, doesn't take sides in deciding who is to
blame for the merger's failure, but provides the perspective from both AOL and Time Warner on why the merger failed
to click. Swisher uses her access to most top AOL executives and Levin to deliver a story that races along in Internet
time about one of the seminal events in media history. (Oct.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: the AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future."
Publishers Weekly, 29 Sept. 2003, p. 57. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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Possibilities
Publishers Weekly.
261.29 (July 21, 2014): p171.
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* Possibilities
Herbie Hancock, with Lisa Dickey. Viking, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-01471-2
Melodically weaving the notes of his personal life around his exploration of numerous music genres from classical and
R&B to funk and hip-hop, renowned pianist Hancock elegantly composes a tuneful sound track of his life in music.
While growing up on Chicago's South Side in the 1940s, Hancock started playing piano when he was seven; four years
later, he'd won a music contest and played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Hancock's intense focus on the
intricacies of music, and his steadfast drive to learn about all aspects of life, especially how things work, led him to take
up jazz as a teenager and to study engineering briefly in college. Hancock takes us through the opus of his early days as
a pianist with Donald Byrd, the composition of his first song, "Watermelon Man," and signing with Blue Note to record
his first album, Takin' Off. Just 23, Hancock got a call from Miles Davis asking the young pianist to come play with him
in what eventually grew into the Second Great Quintet. Five years later, Hancock left Davis to form his own band, the
Herbie Hancock Sextet, launching a successful and widely varied solo career that included writing scores for movies
like Round Midnight, Jo Jo Dancer, and Harlem Nights. Hancock's discovery and embrace of Buddhism opened his
heart and mind to the myriad possibilities in life and music, and he reveals eloquently in this candid memoir that he
continues to approach life in an improvisational style in which each moment is special and everything is always new.
(Oct.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Possibilities." Publishers Weekly, 21 July 2014, p. 171. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor
and the Defeat of DOMA
Vanessa Bush
Booklist.
111.22 (Aug. 1, 2015): p23.
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Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA. By Roberta Kaplan and Lisa Dickey. Oct.
2015. 320p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393248678). 346.7301.
Kaplan had just graduated from law school and was beginning to come to grips with her sexuality when she went to
Thea Spyer, a psychologist, for help. Spyer's greatest help to Kaplan was to show her the loving relationship Spyer had
with her partner, Edie Windsor. Nearly 20 years later, Kaplan was called on by Windsor to challenge estate taxes levied
against her when she inherited Spyer's estate but could not be legally recognized as a spousal heir, though the women
had been legally married in Canada. The couple had been together more than 40 years. The case would become a
groundbreaking challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. Kaplan chronicles the legal battle for Windsor, behind-thescenes
conflicts, and lobbying as the case made its way through the court system. Interspersed throughout is Kaplan's
own journey to self-acceptance and challenge to injustices suffered by gays. She relates the love story of Spyer and
Windsor as well as her own story of finding and committing to a partner. Kaplan offers a personal and a legal
perspective on the long, arduous journey to marriage equality for gays.--Vanessa Bush
Bush, Vanessa
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Bush, Vanessa. "Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA." Booklist, 1 Aug. 2015, p.
23. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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The World Is Bigger Now: An American
Journalist's Release from Captivity in North
Korea
Vanessa Bush
Booklist.
107.1 (Sept. 1, 2010): p12.
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The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea.
By Euna Lee and Lisa Dickey.
Sept. 2010. 304p. Broadway, $25 (9780307716132). 070.92.
Current TV film editor Lee was captured along with colleague Laura Ling when their crew--documenting defections
from North Korea--very briefly crossed the border between China and North Korea. Lee, of South Korean descent, had
been particularly affected by the stories they documented of travelers on an underground railroad from the oppressive
regime, including women forced into sexual slavery. Her captors used her heritage in their psychological campaign to
induce guilt and drive a wedge between her and Ling during five months of detention that culminated in confessions, a
trial, and sentencing to 12 years in a labor camp. Lee recalls the harsh conditions of detention and her reliance on her
Christian faith and her longing for her family--particularly her young daughter for survival. Following their release after
diplomatic efforts led by former president Clinton, Lee continued to struggle with regrets about the forced confession
and revealing sources, possibly hurting people they'd intended to help. This is a heartrending story of serious challenges
to a journalist's credo and a woman's test of faith and endurance.--Vanessa Bush
Bush, Vanessa
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Bush, Vanessa. "The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea." Booklist,
1 Sept. 2010, p. 12. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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Possibilities
Mark Levine
Booklist.
111.1 (Sept. 1, 2014): p26.
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Possibilities. By Herbie Hancock and Lisa Dickey. Oct. 2014.352p. Viking, $29.95 (9780670014712). 781.650.
Herbie Hancock has been in the forefront of America's music for a half-century, from his experience as a sideman with
Miles Davis to his own groups, which earned numerous Oscar and Grammy awards. He has remained true to his an and
his (Buddhist) poise during turbulent times, and his description of his upbringing and encounters with often turbulent
individuals (not least of them Davis) provides a unique slant on America's musical scene. This is, however, an odd jazz
autobiography. Though gracious to his collaborators and other contemporaries, Hancock omits virtually any mention of
influences on his work; this is a piano man's story with only very passing mention of Art Tatum or Bud Powell or
Thelonious Monk. Though some of his music has been, in his words, "far out," Hancock on the page is not. Like jazz,
this memoir is at times cerebral but at times superficial. He relies on cool as an all-purpose adjective almost to the
degree that Davis used they-word (the one that starts with an m) as a noun in his own memoirs. Though interesting in
parts, ultimately this just doesn't quite swing.--Mark Levine
Levine, Mark
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Levine, Mark. "Possibilities." Booklist, 1 Sept. 2014, p. 26. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor
and the Defeat of DOMA
Publishers Weekly.
262.32 (Aug. 10, 2015): p48.
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* Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
Roberta Kaplan, with Lisa Dickey. Norton, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-24867-8
Civil rights lawyer Kaplan, who helped bring down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in the case United States
v. Windsor, shares the remarkable story of the landmark victory for gay rights. Along with detailing her legal strategy in
the lower courts, Kaplan weaves her own coming out story and her personal relationship into the story of her clients
Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer, but those details never compete. Instead, they provide a revealing juxtaposition of how
two very different generations' of lesbians wrestled with the social attitudes of their times. It's a timely, well-told story,
brimming with observations about the importance of family and Kaplan's Jewish heritage. Her explanations of the
intricacies of U.S. constitutional law are deft and accessible to the layperson, especially when she divulges the strategy
of focusing their legal case on Justice Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence. Kaplan's rallying cry "It's all about Edie,
stupid" keeps the stories of two remarkable women at the center of this historic legal and human drama. Photos. (Oct.)
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