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The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The unidentified man in the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower, and it is unclear whether he fell while searching for safety or jumped to escape ...
Falling Man is a novel by American writer Don DeLillo, published May 15, 2007. An excerpt from the novel appeared in short story form as "Still Life" in the April 9, 2007, issue of The New Yorker magazine. Falling Man concerns a survivor of the 9/11 attacks and the effect his experiences on that day have on his life thereafter.
The following account from Associated Press photographer Richard Drew is excerpted from the book “September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy,” an in-depth look at AP’s coverage of 9/ ...
The psychology of crowds and the capitulation of individuals to group identity is a theme DeLillo examines in several of his novels, especially in the prologue to Underworld, Mao II, and Falling Man. In a 1993 interview with Maria Nadotti, DeLillo explained My book (Mao II), in a way, is asking who is speaking to these people. Is it the writer ...
The album is thematically inspired by the September 11 attacks, in particular the subject of the photograph The Falling Man. While the man's identity has never been conclusively established, many believe he was a Windows on the World employee named Jonathan Briley, which led Nothing guitarist Domenic Palermo to discuss him during the album's ...
One painful night, Edward discovers how well the treatment is working when his face begins falling off in gooey, bloody clumps, revealing someone in the mirror who looks like, well, Sebastian Stan.
Paul Bryan was finally arrested for the 1984 murder of Roman Szalajko as he stepped off a plane from Portugal at Stansted Airport last November.
Over the years, the story of the falling man has become an iconic one, much embellished by other writers. In most retellings of Einstein's story, the falling man is identified as a painter. In some accounts, Einstein was inspired after he witnessed a painter falling from the roof of a building adjacent to the patent office where he worked.