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Friday, November 7, 2008
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Writing Away Retreats/May 1-5/Taos, New Mexico
Writing Away Retreats is a destination vacation for you and your muse. Aiming to serve writer’s who need to get away and focus on their projects, we offer maximum feedback with minimal interruptions. Providing ample time to write, discuss your goals, dreams and projects with like minded creative individuals is what we do best.
During your (May 1-5th, 2009 (Taos, NM) or June 12th-16th, 2009 (Vail, CO) ) stay you will experience an all-inclusive retreat for four nights and four days in a luxurious yet, isolated lodge. MS consultation with the author, editor and agent are included in your package. For those attending the poetry retreat, your chap book MS or poems up to 20 pages will be included with your cost. A 90 minute consultation with Lisa Gates is also available at no additional cost. Delicious organic meals will be prepared three times per day and snacks, coffee, tea, wine and linen service will be provided throughout the day and into the night. During the evenings we will host optional discussions on trends in literature, books* and movies that have come from the literary greats and have readings with a roaring fire, cozy furniture and fantastic company.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Studs Terkel Dead at 96
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Studs Terkel Dies (AP)
Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday.
He was 96.
He was an old rebel who never mellowed, never retired, never forgot, and "never met a picket line or petition I didn't like."
New York Times: The voice is unforgettable, as if each phrase scraped the ear with a scoopful of gravel. What remains in the memory too is the earnestness that could turn both fervent and sentimental.
USA Today: Terkel had the listening skills of a psychologist, the timing of a comic, the curiosity of a scholar, and the gravelly voice of a boxing promoter.
Christian Science Monitor: If you can imagine Walt Whitman hosting a Midwest radio talk show, wearing a checkered shirt and drawling like a movie gangster, you've conjured up America's greatest oral historian.
Times of London: Terkel's political sympathies almost killed his career during Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crackdown of the 1950s. He was dumped from an early radio show when he refused to distance himself from liberal causes.
Chicago Tribune: He took the obscure academic exercise known as oral history and turned it into literature.
In transcribing the words and hopes of ordinary people, he gave voice to the voiceless. WaPo: Reporters and priests and psychologists know it takes a certain kind of personality to get a certain kind of person to speak honestly. Terkel's gift -- displayed on his syndicated radio program for decades, as well as in print -- was just this.
Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday.
He was 96.
He was an old rebel who never mellowed, never retired, never forgot, and "never met a picket line or petition I didn't like."
New York Times: The voice is unforgettable, as if each phrase scraped the ear with a scoopful of gravel. What remains in the memory too is the earnestness that could turn both fervent and sentimental.
USA Today: Terkel had the listening skills of a psychologist, the timing of a comic, the curiosity of a scholar, and the gravelly voice of a boxing promoter.
Christian Science Monitor: If you can imagine Walt Whitman hosting a Midwest radio talk show, wearing a checkered shirt and drawling like a movie gangster, you've conjured up America's greatest oral historian.
Times of London: Terkel's political sympathies almost killed his career during Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crackdown of the 1950s. He was dumped from an early radio show when he refused to distance himself from liberal causes.
Chicago Tribune: He took the obscure academic exercise known as oral history and turned it into literature.
In transcribing the words and hopes of ordinary people, he gave voice to the voiceless. WaPo: Reporters and priests and psychologists know it takes a certain kind of personality to get a certain kind of person to speak honestly. Terkel's gift -- displayed on his syndicated radio program for decades, as well as in print -- was just this.
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