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Charlie Schroeder

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I share the same birthday as Harvey Korman, Matt Groening and the adult film star Arnold Schwartzenpecker. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know about me, well, then read on.

I've written for the NY Times, LA Times, New York Observer, Los Angeles Magazine and Readers Digest. A story I once wrote about people who fish golf course water hazards was selected for inclusion in the Best American Sports Writing. As an actor I've appeared in films, TV shows and on stage. As a public radio guy I've produced segments for shows including Marketplace, Only a Game, The Next Big Thing, Weekend America, Day 2 Day, Performance Today and On the Media. My wife Wendy and I make our home in Hong Kong, a city with many tall buildings. ...more

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Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

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“Why is it that the pick of the young Englishmen from Oxford and Cambridge go into politics and in the U. S. A. we leave it to the muckers?—raised in the ward, educated in the assembly and sent to Congress, fat-paunched bundles of corruption, devoid of “both ideas and ideals” as the debaters used to say. Even forty years ago we had good men in politics, but we, we are brought up to pile up a million and “show what we are made of.” Sometimes I wish I’d been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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