Tad Kosewicz

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Produktbeschreibung

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" - John F. Kennedy, Ted Sorensen. Yeah, I met this Ted Sorensen. His brother Bob invited me to live in his family's brownstone on the Upper East Side when I landed in New York. Bob was a Princeton professor at the time, but the person who recommended me to him and whose husband worked with him for the Radio Free Europe back in Western Germany, told me that they thought he worked for the CIA. Could be, because Ted himself was a shoo-in for a CIA director under Carter, until Chappaquiddick came up. John F. I didn't meet, because he was shot dead before I came. But later on, when I got bored with a library gig at Pace University and hired out as a busboy for the Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel, there was an old waiter there, Fred. Donald Trump, who bought The Plaza for a while for his then-wife paying her one dollar a year and for all the dresses she'd pick, would put up a plaque in the Oak Room right next to George M. Cohan's on Fred's 50th anniversary with the joint, pure Don. Fred came from Italy as a kid and became a busboy, like me. One day he said to me, I like how you work, you have gusto. I didn't know the word but looked it up and it was good. And Fred told me that when he served John F. that John F. had pea soup and a Heineken. Pea soup and a Heineken, it felt like I got to know John F. too, just a little bit. Anyway, I better start on the story because you ought to know that this way for you is out there too.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tad Kosewicz
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005891787
• Artikelnr.: 70375278

Autorenporträt

Tad Kosewicz is the pen name of Tadeusz Korzeniewski. He has lived in Poland and then in America half a life in each. He won the Koscielski Prize for writing in Polish, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for writing in English. He lives in Seattle.

He was born in the family of a WWII Home Army fighter. He studied electronics and philosophy, then joined the pre-Solidarity anti-Communist movement as an occasionally arrested underground writer and printer. His book "W Polsce" [In Poland] was published in the underground in 1981, and in England by an émigré publishing house. In 1984 it was awarded the Koscielski Prize. In 2005 Newsweek Polska ranked it as one of the Polish Books of the Century. In 2010 it was republished in post-Communist Poland, with prominent voices calling for including it in the school curriculum.

In 1981 he moved from Poland to France and then on to New York (1983), Montana (1992), and Seattle (1998), where he lives today. In New York he worked as a busboy at the Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel. In Montana he worked on the Flathead Reservation in a burger joint. His first job in Seattle was as an office furniture installer on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Of the many gigs he has done for a living in America, he most values his job as a security guard, guarding the Lansdowne portrait on its cross-country tour.

He began writing in English around 1990. Generous America responded right off with a string of fellowships: from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and more. At first, he wrote about his country of origin. The trouble started when he turned to the American stuff and hit the third-rail issues, his game. He was still fairly naive about the country, he thought that now since he was in America he could publicize the truth as he pleased. The contemporary American publishing world was just itching for it to be dropped on their desks, he imagined. Boy was he in for a surprise. To get ready to flatten that check, and like many before him, he hit the roads West. The year was 1992.

In 2014, already on the other side of the country in Seattle, he published the paperback in English "To Wyoming" (in Polish "Do Wyoming," 2013). In 2018 he hardened it as "Americaa," the first in a series of ebooks on Europe, America, and Europeans worldwide. In 2022 came "Seattle." Substack's "Aurora Bridge" is set for 2024.

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