AMERICAN REFUGEES: THE ROGER SIMON/SHERYL LONGIN SUBSTACK COMING VERY SOON

This is a placeholder for a forthcoming (August) Substack to be authored, separately and together,  by the husband and wife team of Roger Simon and Sheryl Longin. The title is from Roger Simon’s latest book—“American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue States to Red States.”

WHO WE ARE

Roger and Sheryl are themselves “American Refugees” having fled Los Angeles (and Hollywood) for Nashville six years ago (June 1918).  Sheryl was born in L. A.  Roger came there in 1969 to work in the movies.

Roger is an award-winning novelist (Moses Wine mysteries) and Oscar-nominated screenwriter of seven movies starring Richard Pryor, Richard Dreyfuss, Anglican Huston and others. He has been publishing his opinions online since 2002, first as a blog, then as co-founder and CEO of Pajamas Media (now PJ Media) and lately at The Epoch Times where he has been a columnist and editor-at-large for five years. He has also written for myriad publications from the New York Times to the National Review and been an officer of several boring national writers’ organizations. When last he checked, most of his 14 books, fiction and nonfiction, are available on Amazon. Yes, there’s another coming.

Sheryl is also a screenwriter, co-writer of the cult hit Watergate comedy “Dick.”  She has been a journalist for “Vanity Fair” (before it became terminally “woke”),  “Interview” and other publications. Before beginning her writing career, she worked as a film and TV executive in London and Hollywood. She too writes fiction, sometimes from the point of view of a dog, as she did in “Dorian Greyhound – A Dog’s Tale” (to be republished here).

WHAT WE INTEND TO DO

We dunno.

Well, we do—sort of.  Roger will doubtless continue writing his political/cultural opinions, in a yet more uncensored and unfettered form.  (Otherwise, why do a Substack?)

Sheryl will provide witty excursions into the culture as well as her own trenchant political and social observations that mostly have been shared at home and Roger has cribbed publicly.

Apropos, once a week at least, there will be a husband/wife dialogue.

Other things: Interviews of folks we know and don’t.  Forays into entertainment.  Tales “out of school” from our Hollywood days. Tales from the early days of the internet. (Roger hung with Andrew Breitbart… for a while.) Movies we like. Music we like.  Books we like. Substacks we like. And MORE.  (There’s always and “MORE,” right, always in caps.)

Most of all we intend to have fun, because if we don’t, readers and subscribers won’t.

As with most Substacks, some of the material will be free to the public with the rest available to paid subscribers.

In the interim, if breaking events drive Roger up the wall–something that happens no more than seven times a day—he may post his response on NOTES. Like what’re we going to do in the months before Jan. 20, 2025, if the world blows up.

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