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User Tgladysz is Thomas Gladysz, an arts journalist with more than 500 published articles to his credit. For more than 25 years, he has contributed to various publications either as a staff or free-lance writer. Gladysz has also worked in the book industry.

While in college, Gladysz was a staff writer (covering entertainment) on the State News - the country’s most widely distributed campus newspaper, as well as an editor of the Red Cedar Review - the longest running undergraduate-run literary journal in the United States. Later on, for more than five years, he was an art critic for Bay City News, a regional wire service located in San Francisco, California. His work was widely syndicated across Northern California. At present, he writes about early film for examiner.com and blogs for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

Gladysz's columns, reviews, and articles has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and alternative weeklies including the Lansing State Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Berkeley Monthly, and now defunct San Francisco Progress newspaper - as well as the San Francisco Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, American Bookseller, Small Press, Locus, ArtTalk, PhotoMetro, X-Ray and WestArt.

Some of Gladysz's journalim has been collected into books published by the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Italian Cultural Institute (San Francisco), Diane Nelson Gallery, Contentville, and others. One of his interviews with the poet Allen Ginsberg appeared in Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews (HarperCollins),[1], while his interview with the poet and memoirist Jim Carroll appeared in volume 143 of Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale Group). Gladysz's entry on the silent film star Louise Brooks appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (Univ. of Nebraska Press).[2] He can also be found in the footnotes, bibliographies and acknowledgments of various other books published around the world.[3]

Gladysz grew up in the suburbs on the east side of Detroit and attended St. Peter's Grade School, Notre Dame High School, and Michigan State University. He now lives in San Francisco, California and considers himself self-educated.

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  1. ^ Ginsberg, Allen (26 March 2002). "Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996". HarperCollins. Retrieved 3 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Gladysz, Thomas (2004). "BROOKS, LOUIS (1906-1985)". In Wishart, David J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 260–261. ISBN 9780803247871. OCLC 940825945.
  3. ^ Unterberger, Richie (3 April 2018). "Eight Miles High: Folk-rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock". Hal Leonard Corporation. Retrieved 3 April 2018 – via Google Books.
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