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A Year’s Worth of Writing for Omaha Magazine by Leo Adam Biga
A Year’s Worth of Writing for Omaha Magazine
by Leo Adam Biga
http://omahamagazine.com/articles/author/leo-adam-biga/
(November-December 2017 through November-December 2018)
Faces and Places, Covers and Pages from this writer/reporter’s notebook
Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film
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Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film
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The work-in-progress page is devoted to my acclaimed book about the Oscar-winning filmmaker and his work.
“This is without question the single best study of Alexander Payne’s films, as well as the filmmaker himself and his filmmaking process. In charting the first two decades of Payne’s remarkable career, Leo Adam Biga pieces together an indelible portrait of an independent American artist, and one that’s conveyed largely in the filmmaker’s own words. This is an invaluable contribution to film history and criticism – and a sheer pleasure to read as well.” –Thomas Schatz, Film scholar and author (The Genius of the System)
The book sells for $25.95.
Available through Barnes & Noble, on Amazon, for Kindle and at other bookstores and gift shops nationwide.
Purchase it at–https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRORX1U?ref_=k4w_oembed_c1Anr6bJdAagnj&tag=kpembed-20&linkCode=kpd
You can also order signed copies by emailing the author at leo32158@cox.net.
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leoadambiga
Author-journalist-blogger Leo Adam Biga resides in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. He writes newspaper-magazine stories about people, their passions, and their magnificent obsessions. He's the author of the books "Crossing Bridges: A Priest's Uplifting Life Among the Downtrodden," "Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film" (a compilation of his journalism about the acclaimed filmmaker) "Open Wide" a biography of Mark Manhart. Biga co-edited "Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Mom and Pop Grocery Stores." His popular blog, Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories at leoadambiga.com, is an online gallery of his work. The blog feeds into his Facebook page, My Inside Stories, as well as his Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Tumblr, About.Me and other social media platform pages.
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- The Brandeis Story: Great Plains family-owned department store empire
- Nancy Bounds, Timeless Arbiter of Fashion Beauty, Glamour, Poise
- John Knicely: A life in television five decades strong
- The Storz Saga: A Family Dynasty – Their Mansion, the Brewery that Built It, the Man Who Loved It, a Legacy of Giving, the Loss of a Dream
- It was a different breed then: Omaha Stockyards remembered
- My Brother's Keeper, The competitive drive MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson's older brother, Josh, instilled in him (from my Omaha Black Sports Legends series, Out to Win: The Roots of Greatness)
- Sun reflection: Revisiting the Omaha Sun's Pulitzer Prize-winning expose of Boys Town
- The Long Road to Recovery: Jade Owens’ Final Year as a Bluejay
- Wright On, Adam Wright Has it All Figured Out Both On and Off the Football Field
- Parenting the Second Time Around Holds Challenges and Delights for Senior Kinship Caregiver Theresa Glass Union, Who Always Puts Family First
Recent Posts
- DISPARATE DISCIPLINE: Black, Latino Youth 2-3 Times More Likely To Be Suspended From School
- Commemorating Black History Month Links to North Omaha stories from 1998 through 2018 (Part II of four-part series)
- Omaha’s jazz past and present merge at The Jewell
- David Sanborn Interview: The Jewell’s grand-opening artist shares some of his music takes
- Commemorating Black History Month: Links to North Omaha stories from 1998 through 2018 (Part I of four-part series)
- Greg Fripp’s Whispering Roots Takes Root with Community Aquaculture in North Omaha’s Highlander Village
- A Year’s Worth of Writing for Omaha Magazine by Leo Adam Biga
- Hope Hero: Vanessa Ward
- The Long Road to Recovery: Jade Owens’ Final Year as a Bluejay
- Omaha Land: Making Neighborhoods Stronger
- Washington Garcia’s international music career finds perfect balance in Omaha
- Expressionistic images by Elisa Morera Benn
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My Pages
- “Nebraska Methodist College at 125: Scaling New Heights”
- ‘Crossing Bridges: A Priest’s Uplifting Life Among the Downtrodden”
- About Leo Adam Biga
- Film Connections: How a 1968 convergence of future cinema greats in Ogallala, Neb. resulted in multiple films and enduring relationships
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- From the Archives…
- Going to Africa with The Champ
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- Introducing Freelance Writing Academy Seminars with Instructor Leo Adam Biga: Book Biga Today
- My Amazon Author’s Page
- My Inside Stories, A Professional Writing Service by Omaha-Based Journalist, Author and Blogger Leo Adam Biga
- Nebraska Screen Heritage Project
- OUT TO WIN – THE ROOTS OF GREATNESS: OMAHA’S BLACK SPORTS LEGENDS
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- Passion Project. Introducing the new – “Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film”
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