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Denise Brown: February 2016

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Monday, February 8, 2016. Lincoln Reloaded: Playwright Gary Moore Raps the Great Emancipator. Gary Moore in Shanghai, 1988. When the student is ready, the saying goes, the teacher will appear. Surely this was the case when author Gary Moore took a teaching job he didn’t particularly want on a campus full of students who didn’t particularly want to be there themselves. The place was Shanghai. The year, 1988. Recently retired from academia, Moore, who earned an MA from Johns Hopkins, held faculty and admin...

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Denise Brown: November 2015

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Sunday, November 22, 2015. Meri Stiles: Compassionate Heart, Activist Art. Gravity, if you will, has little pull in the prints and drawings of artist Meri Stiles. Whales float overhead. Etheric spirit forms rise from the corporal. Simply drawn figures with elongated arms and legs shed the weight of the world and fly, reminiscent of Chagall’s evocative work. Other paintings showcase unexpected juxtapositions. The cleanness and precision of the lines of her drawings are often streaked or stained with water...

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Denise Brown: February 2015

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Friday, February 6, 2015. The Dogs of Palermo. Going blonde I thought might make for easier upkeep. Blonde was a mistake. We’ll just be frank about it. It was, in a word, disturbing. Since then, over the span of a year, I’ve experimented with various shades of light brown:. Gold, natural, warm, ash, honey. Always hoping to find a miracle in a box, I’m as gullible as beauty product consumers come. I am, conveniently, an actual writer, with actual books and many articles to my name. Also not my strong suits.

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Denise Brown: August 2015

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Friday, August 7, 2015. Mr Davis Has Left the Building. Readers of this column will have noticed that over the last months, instead of offering my typical fare of marginally insightful commentary on crows or the challenging climate, on the vagaries of the writing life or what falls out when you shake a family tree, I’ve instead conducted interviews with writers who are meeting their deadlines and publishing actual books. Yeah, I didn’t think you’d buy that. The ruts are deeply entrenched as well. Any sor...

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Denise Brown: March 2015

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Monday, March 2, 2015. Unearthing the Past: Author Ruth Crocker to Keynote NEK Veterans Summit. Lon Oakley, platoon leader, finding David Crocker's name on the wall. We all have buried secrets. But few among us go to the trouble of having them interred. Fewer still, decades later, find the courage to dig them up. In Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War. She will also hold a workshop, “Tell Your Story,” on memoir and story-writing for writers of all levels. Ruth and David Crocker, June 1966.

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Denise Brown: April 2016

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Looking Back on Nepal. John Kascenska, Everest in the background. 8220;When you go to the mountains,” Edmund Hillary said, “you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”. Triggered a deadly avalanche on Mt. Everest and brought the climbing season to an end. Kascenska, close enough to hear the avalanche, was. With a small group from International Trekking, based in North Conway, NH. Over the course...

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Denise Brown: September 2014

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Taking Flight with Tanya Sousa. The animals talk in Tanya Sousa’s new novel, THE STARLING GOD. They offer comfort to one another, hold conversations on the activities of the powerful bipeds they regard with awe, and reflect on their place and purpose in the grand scheme of things. “There is greatness,” one communicates to another, “in sharing what we were born to tell.”. Sharing what she was born to tell is exactly what Tanya Sousa is all about. 8220;I like the idea of blendin...

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Denise Brown: December 2014

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Alia Thabit: On Power, Improvisation, and the Kindness of Strangers. Photo by Dunya McPherson. Writer and dancer Alia Thabit says she trains treasure hunters. And she wants you to know that every beautiful, magical jewel you desire is waiting at your fingertips. Forty years ago, she attended her first belly dance class near her home in Brooklyn and was hooked. Through it all, she never stopped dancing. Nor has she stopped pushing the limits of her talents or curiosity. Known al...

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Denise Brown: November 2014

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Sunday, November 2, 2014. Bryce Towsley: The Wild Places Are Still the Best. Leave it to Bryce Towsley to turn social and economic collapse into what he calls “a rollicking good read.”. Set partly in Vermont, THE 14. REINSTATED, the award-winning author and photographer’s first novel,. Unveils a dark, frightening vision of a world devastated by war, hardship, and unrest, in what one reviewer calls, “a very gritty look at a future that seems more likely every day.”. USPSA, organizations offering opportuni...