Jack Vitek

Edgewood College
Madison, WI

      Publications

        The Godfather of Tabloid, Generoso Pope
      Jr. and the National Enquirer. The Kentucky
      Press, 2008.

         The Godfather book has been reviewed by the Wall Street
        Journal, the LA Times, the Columbia Journalism Review,
        and the Palm Beach Post.  Jack Vitek was interviewed by Ann
        Strainchamps for The Best of Our Knowledge on Wisconsin
        Public Radio and by BBC's internationally broadcast news
        varity program, Up All Night. 

        Here is a link to a professsional blog written by  former On the
        Edge co-  editor Kat Cisar, who is now music and popular
        culture writer for 77Square:
       http://host.madison.com/entertainment/music/blog/article_44b927b3-4a33-58de-9df4-bbe1c822c6bf.html

        It was also written up in Doug Moe's column for the Wisconsin
        State Journal:

        http://host.madison.com/news/article_b5eda055-fb9a-5afb-955a-b5c46698516e.html

         And here's a link to The Wall Street Journal's review:

         http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB121850446228131941-lMyQjAxMDI4MTE4MjUxMDI0Wj.html

 
      Defector's Mistress: the Judy Chavez
      story, Dell original nonfiction paperback
      (co-author)

      Moonstruck, Story of a Cult, William
      Morrow (co-author)

      IDOL, unauthorized biography of Rock
      Hudson, Villard Books in hardback, Bantam
      in paperback (co-author)

           "Another Squint at Eyes Wide Shut: A
      Postmodern Reading," Journal of Modern
      Austrian Literature, Fall 2002, No. 34 ½.