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Erik Tarloff

Erik Tarloff - Erik Tarloff is a novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He has contributed speeches to Bill Clinton, Al Gore and others on a pro bono basis. More

Erik Tarloff has written extensively for the screen, both large and small (multiple episodes of M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, The Jeffersons, and many others too numerous and/or forgettable to mention). He has published two novels, Face-Time and The Man Who Wrote the Book. He was on the book-reviewing team at Slate, in addition to writing many other articles for that site about music and politics and divers other topics. He has been a contributing editor to the British magazine Prospect, and has published extensively in a wide variety of other newspapers and magazines. He contributed on a pro bono basis to speeches for former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, and other political figures.
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Hominids in Love

By Erik Tarloff

May 7 2010, 4:50 PM ET Comment

As was widely reported this morning, researchers have just discovered an admixture of Neanderthal genetic material in the human genome.  Which, if nothing else, goes some distance toward explaining every other item in today's paper.


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