Bob ingram

Bob Ingram

Contributor

BSR Contributor Since April 24, 2009

Bob Ingram is a veteran writer, journalist, editor, and filmmaker who lives in Burleigh, N.J.

Bob Ingram is a writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker whose work has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic City Magazine, South Jersey Magazine, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly, Atlantic City Weekly, Philly Arts, the South Philadelphia Review, the Cape May County Herald, the Wildwood Sun By-the-Sea, the Drummer, the Plain Dealer, the Philadelphia Free Press, the South Street Star, Food Trade News, Food World, Supermarket Business, Progressive Grocer, and Frozen Food Age, among others.

He received the Philadelphia Bar Association "Scales of Justice" Award for a story on Juvenile Court, and an award from Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalism fraternity, for a story on Vietnamese refugees.

He has also co-written, co-produced and narrated a documentary film about the Boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ, called Boardwalk: Greetings from Wildwood By-The-Sea.

He was managing editor of Chilton Company's Marine Products Magazine, publisher of the Temple/Philadelphia Free Press, twice editor of The Drummer/Thursday's Drummer/Distant Drummer, founder and editor of the South Street Star in Philadelphia, editor of Food Trade News, and senior editor at Supermarket Business and Progressive Grocer magazines.

He currently lives and writes in Burleigh, New Jersey.

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Author Jennifer Lin. (Photo by StefanieLin)

'Shanghai Faithful,' by Jennifer Lin

A faithful retelling

Jennifer Lin's memoir 'Shanghai Faithful' examines five generations of her Chinese Christian family and their journeys between continents. Bob Ingram reviews.
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'St. Paddy's in the Devil's Pocket.' (Photo by Pwbaker via Creative Commons/Flickr)

'Shutter Man' by Richard Montanari

A pocket full of darkness

In ‘Shutter Man,’ the newest novel of Richard Montanari’s Byrne-Balzano murder-mystery series, a serial killer killer stalks Philadelphia’s “Devil’s Pocket” section. Bob Ingram reviews.
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Bob Ingram

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There were 23,522 gun-related incidents in the U.S. in 2016. It's only June. (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Howard Unruh: the first U.S. mass murderer

From Camden to Orlando: A legacy of mass murder

If you live long enough in this country, you'll probably have a personal connection to a gun-fueled mass murder. Here's Bob Ingram's connection to a grim U.S. first.
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Bob Ingram

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Bob Levin's memoir is filled with delicious anecdotes. (Photo by Yuri Long via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Bob Levin's 'Cheesesteak, the West Philadelphia Years, a Rememboir'

A 'Cheesesteak' with everything

Bob Levin's Rememboir recalls his childhood in West Philly and is stuffed full of tales from his literary life.
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Bob Ingram

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“Los Angeles Sunset” by Ron Reiring. (Via Creative Commons/Flickr)

'A Better Goodbye' by John Schulian

Living and dying in L.A.

A Better Goodbye might be typified as “nouveau noir,” a seething portrait of the dirty underbelly of that black magical dreamscape known as Los Angeles.
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Bob Ingram

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Fetching as a barracuda: Johnny Depp in ‘Black Mass.’ (© 2015 - Warner Bros. Pictures)

Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’

A study in menace

Other actors have had a go at the Whitey Bulger persona, but they were mainly based on Bulger. Johnny Depp is Whitey Bulger, having spent two and a half hours daily getting into the prosthetic face that coldly surveys his Southie criminal kingdom and perfecting the Boston accent with which he delivers his satanic commands.
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Bob Ingram

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Brad Pitt in “Killing Them Softly” (© 2011 - The Weinstein Co.)

George V. Higgins: An appreciation

I’ll put three books by the late George V. Higgins up against any three books written by anybody since Hemingway or Faulkner — maybe everybody from Mailer on.
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Bob Ingram

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The triumph of law and order. (Photo © 2015, FX Networks.)

FX's 'Justified'

Good-bye to a great bad guy

Justified shows the edgy, hand-on-your-gun relationship between lawman and outlaw in “Bloody Harlan.”
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Bob Ingram

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Sammy Sheik as Mustafa in “American Sniper” (photo © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

Iraqi Sniper

Suppose there was somehow a viable movie industry in the shambles that is Iraq. Suppose a movie was made there called Iraqi Sniper. What would it be like?
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Bob Ingram

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Literary wild man James Ellroy (photo by Mark Coggins via Creative Commons/Flickr)

James Ellroy's 'Perfidia'

James Ellroy in Nighttown

Perfidia is a twisted labyrinth of plot and counterplot, casual racism, murder most bloody and foul, and hypnotic prose, with real-life big names passing through or nudging the story along.
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Bob Ingram

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Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight: Like father, like son?

Showtime's 'Ray Donovan'

Parsing Ray Donovan

Ray Donovan is Nathanael West’s Day of the Locust brought up to date, an ongoing examination and indictment of the sad, ruthless culture that is today’s showbiz Los Angeles.
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Bob Ingram

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Michael Fassbender and Javier Bardem in "The Counselor." (Photo by Kerry Brown - © 2013 - Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)
Allen Ginsberg: no time for metaphysical bullshit. (Photo by Michiel Hendryckx, via Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

A call from Allen Ginsberg

"Interesting" encounters at the underground paper The Drummer. Ah, the '60s.
Bob Ingram

Bob Ingram

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Summer of 1936. William Edward "Bud" Fields, wife Lily Rogers Fields, and infant daughter Lilian at their sharecropper cabin in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration.

'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' by James Agee and Walker Evans

Let Us Now Praise James Agee

This is a book of stunning honesty and self-awareness and inspired observation. Its humanity is as blinding and magnificent and humble as its prose is magesterial.
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Bob Ingram

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Pharoah Sanders in December of 2006; photo by Dmitry Scherbie

Pharoah, Freda, and me

Back in his wayward youth, Bob Ingram met a lot of jazz greats — including, on one memorable night, sax great Pharoah Sanders and "Band of Gold" singer Freda Payne.
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Bob Ingram

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