No answer came and, with the deadline looming, the editor, fuming, rewrote the story so the facts weren’t needed. As was custom, he wrote his story leaving out the “zips”-facts to be filled in later-including noting that Naguib was “such a modest man that his name did not appear among the 000 people listed in Who’s Who in the Middle East” and that he elected not to live in the royal palace, surrounded “by an 00-foot-high wall.” The editor then sent the article to a fact checker in Cairo to fill in the zips. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.In his 1964 Harper’s Magazine article on fact-checking, “There Are 00 Trees in Russia,” Otto Friedrich related the story of an unnamed magazine correspondent who had been assigned a profile of Egyptian president Mohamed Naguib. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world’s relationship with mortality. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly, and is the co-editor (with Joanna Ebenstein) of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America.
Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America.
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