Ashley Rindsberg
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| Born | July 25, 1981 Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| Education | Cornell University (BA) |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
| Notable works | The Gray Lady Winked (2021) Rivkah and Rebecca (2020) Tel Aviv Stories (2011) |
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Ashley Rindsberg (born 25 July 1981) is a South Africa-born, American novelist, media commentator, essayist and journalist based in Israel. His 2021 book, The Gray Lady Winked, is an investigation of The New York Times. Rindsberg's first book is a collection of short fiction called Tel Aviv Stories.
Early life
[edit]Rindsberg was born in South Africa in 1981. He was raised in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and San Diego.[citation needed] His grandmother was Jewish and from Lithuania.[1] He attended Cornell University where he double majored in philosophy and science & technology studies.[citation needed]
At Cornell, Rindsberg worked[2] on the History of Recent Science and Technology (HRST) Program, led by MIT's Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, helping to digitize a paper archive of the country's first university-level materials science department.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]After graduating from Cornell, Rindsberg worked at the Internet Archive, where he led the Bookmobile Program,[3][4] developed by Archive founder Brewster Kahle. In 2003, Rindsberg traveled to Egypt[5] to create a mobile digital printing unit for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina that could supply books for programs aimed at improving literacy among Egyptian children.[6] In 2004, Rindsberg worked for two months as a deckhand on a sailboat traveling from Sardinia to Greece.[7]
Works
[edit]Tel Aviv Stories (2011)
[edit]In 2011, Rindsberg released his first book, a collection of short fiction called Tel Aviv Stories: Israeli Short Fiction from the Heart of the Mideast.[8] The book received critical praise, including from Kirkus Reviews, which called it "an empathetic set of character studies" and noted the book's use of "fresh metaphors" and a "flâneur protagonist common to W. G. Sebald and Teju Cole."[9] Jeremy Last of The Jerusalem Post said the book "offers a deeply personal and rather melancholy take on the city. Tel Aviv Stories showcases its underbelly, warts and all, and does so in a manner that leaves the reader wondering out loud." Rivkah and Rebecca, the final story in the collection, comprises half of the book and does not take place in Tel Aviv.[10]
He Falls Alone
[edit]Rindsberg wrote the book He Falls Alone after traveling to Nicaragua in 2010 to investigate the death of a friend.[11] He spent a year in France writing the book.
The Gray Lady Winked (2021)
[edit]In 2021, Rindsberg published The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History.[12] The book consists of 10 chapters each of which look at how instances of major reporting by The New York Times impacted American and world policy, politics and history.
The book was a response to Rindsberg learning from William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that, at the outset of World War II, The New York Times reported that Poland invaded Germany.[13][14][15]
Chapters in the book focus on The New York Times' coverage of the Second World War, the Holocaust, Stalin's Russia, the Cuban Revolution, the Vietnam War, the Atomic bombing of Japan, the Second Intifada, the Iraq War and search for Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the 1619 Project.
Rindsberg says misreporting and inaccuracies at The New York Times have had a substantial impact on international events, setting the agenda for the news, and influencing what millions of people believe to be factual.[16]
Personal life
[edit]Rindsberg lives in Emek Hefer. His wife is from London.[7] He has two sons.
References
[edit]- ^ Rindsberg, Ashley. "My Grandmother The Fighter". The Times of Israel. No. 8 March 2020.
- ^ "Project Summary and Explanation". authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/index.html. Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Internet Archive Bookmobile". archive.org. Internet Archive. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Bookmobile Thanks". archive.org. Internet Archive. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Rein, Lisa (July 21, 2003). "Library Of Alexandria Bookmobile". onlisareinsradar.com. On Lisa Rein's Radar. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Schofield, Jack (May 1, 2003). "Drive to put in a good word". The Guardian. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ a b Danan, Deborah (19 June 2019). "Ashley Rindsberg is the American Novelist". Jewish Journal.
- ^ Rindsberg, Ashley (2011). Tel Aviv Stories. Midnight Oil Publishers. ASIN B004RJ3LGA.
- ^ "Tel Aviv Stories". Kirkus Reviews. February 1, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Last, Jeremy (23 June 2011). "Street talk". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ Rindsberg, Ashley (27 December 2021). "Nicaragua Is Burning". The Burning Castle.
- ^ Rindsberg, Ashley (2021). The Gray Lady Winked. Midnight Oil Publishers. ISBN 978-1736703304.
- ^ "Border Clashes Increase". archive.nytimes.com. 1 September 1939. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ Rindsberg, Ashley (2021). "Introduction". The Gray Lady winked : how the New York Times's misreporting, distortions and fabrications radically alter history. Midnight Oil Publishers. ISBN 978-1736703304.
The seed for the book was planted when I stumbled across a footnote in a work of history about the Second World War, William Shirer's famed "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." In the footnote, Shirer mentions that on the eve of the outbreak of the war, The New York Times erroneously reported that Poland had invaded Germany. I was shocked by this barely noticed fact.
- ^ Shirer, William L. (1960). "16". The rise and fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1451651683.
The "Polish attack" on Gleiwitz was used by Hitler in his speech to the Reichstag the next day and was cited as justification for the Nazi aggression by Ribbentrop, Weizsaecker and other members of the Foreign Office in their propaganda. The New York Times and other newspapers reported it, as well as similar incidents, in their issues of September 1, 1939.
- ^ "Journalist Ashley Rindsberg discusses how errors at the NYT can distort reality for readers". The Hill. May 13, 2021.
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