Robert Coram

Robert Coram is the author of seven novels and five works of non-fiction. This summer he will finish his 13th book, "Brute: the Life and Times of General Victor Krulak" which will be published in 2010 by Little, Brown & Company. He has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, Washington Monthly, and many other national and regional magazines. He taught journalism at Emory for 12 years. In the 1960s Coram was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and in the early 1980s wrote for the Atlanta Constitution.
Number of posts: 2
Email address: rcoram@bellsouth.net

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Bring Back the Stewardesses

by Robert Coram | 89, Add your Comment | Jun 16 09

The biggest airline in the world, Atlanta’s own Delta Airlines, is in serious trouble: a $125 million hit this quarter, reduction of system capacity by ten per cent this year, and the loss of 8,000 jobs in the past 12 months. But I know how to fix all this and, at the same time, advance western civilization: bring back the stewardesses and impose on them an upper age limit of 30. One of the most bizarre marketing ploys in history was when the airlines dropped "stewardess" and picked up "flight attendant." It seems that "stewardess" was demeaning and that "flight attendant" ...

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Why I Left Edison

by Robert Coram | 14, Add your Comment | Apr 18 09

My hometown of Edison is in deep southwest Georgia, a part of the state that remains terra incognita to those from Macon or Atlanta or Savannah, and part of another galaxy to those from other states. But growing up in Edison during the 1950s I learned things that I could never have learned anywhere else. Much of that knowledge came when I was a bare-footed boy in short pants stopping at the gas station on the way home from school. Along with several friends I would walk into the dim recesses of the store, slide a nickel into the drink box, ...