Matt Mendelsohn is a writer and photographer from Arlington, Virginia. He has written for The New York Times and Washington Post magazine. A collection of Matt's photography is currently being exhibited in Paris at the Memorial de la Shoah.

As a photojournalist for UPI and USA Today for over twenty years, Matt covered the White House, the Gulf War, the invasion of Panama, and countless professional sporting events.

Blog Entries by Matt Mendelsohn

2010 Pulitzer Prizes Announced; Bono, Plumber, Housewives Get Nods

Posted January 13, 2009 | 04:33 PM (EST)


Published April 8, 2010 by the New York Times

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. Following are the winners in journalism.

National Reporting: Kelly Pickler, Taylor Hicks, David Archuleta and Sanjaya Malakar

For a series of articles in The Wall Street Journal detailing abuses in the distribution of...

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Are You There, Memory? It's Me, Author

Posted January 9, 2009 | 10:47 AM (EST)


"In my dreams, Roma will always throw me an apple, but I now know it is only a dream." Holocaust fabulist Herman Rosenblatt, on his debunked memoir, "Angel at the Fence."

"I am chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me." Best-selling Christian author Neale...

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McCain: A Tragedy in Three Scenes

Posted October 31, 2008 | 11:37 AM (EST)


Act 1, Scene 1. A polling place.

First Witch:
When shall we three meet again,

Second Witch:
In Florida, Texas, or in Maine?
When the hurly-burly's done,
When the 'lection's lost and won.

Third Witch:
That will be ere the set of sun.

First Witch:

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McCain Injures Fingers Making Quotation Marks Sign, Suspends Campaign

Posted October 29, 2008 | 12:49 PM (EST)


In an unexpected blow to his presidential aspirations, Senator John McCain injured four of his fingers, two on each hand, after repeatedly making the international sign for quotation marks at a stop in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Campaign officials immediately suspended all operations until a new and safer method of expressing smarmy...

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Liberalism, What Are You Going As for Halloween?

Posted October 27, 2008 | 01:04 PM (EST)


Each election cycle, it's always exciting to guess how the right wing is going to dress liberals up for the big spooky day. In the past, they've gone as paroled murderers coming for your family, big government coming for your wallet, cross-dressers coming to teach your children, and killjoys coming...

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I am the Warrior

Posted October 24, 2008 | 10:16 AM (EST)


Remember the war in Iraq?

Sadly, I didn't think so. Between all the truly grave dangers facing our country -- the economic crisis, the election, Sarah Palin's wardrobe malfunction -- it's easy to see how a thing like a war, with real people dying, could get, well, misplaced.

But you...

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Dystopian: Winter of 2011

Posted October 23, 2008 | 05:19 PM (EST)


Winter, '11

I went next door to my neighbor's house to borrow a cup of sugar and she told me to drop dead.

My fault, really. Three years later and I still forget. It seems like forever and a day ago that we were still part of Real America, or...

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