Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Margot Livesey (part 1 of 4)
Author Margot Livesey discusses her new book, “The House on Fortune Street” with host Kecia Lynn.
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Author Margot Livesey discusses her new book, “The House on Fortune Street” with host Kecia Lynn.
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Author ZZ Packer discusses her new book “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” with host Kecia Lynn.
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Author and physician Abraham Verghese discusses his new book “Cutting for Stone” with host Kecia Lynn.
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Worlds Literary Festival invites international writers to Norwich to engage in the weeks events and public readings. Alongside the public programme of work, the festival also offers a daily round-table discussion session, at which writers from across the world can share thoughts and ideas. This unique Salon explores a different topic each year, and this year writers and guests were asked to think about The Creative Writer; the education of writers, issues of the market place and of translation.
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Worlds Literary Festival invites international writers to Norwich to engage in the weeks events and public readings. Alongside the public programme of work, the festival also offers a daily round-table discussion session, at which writers from across the world can share thoughts and ideas. This unique Salon explores a different topic each year, and this year writers and guests were asked to think about The Creative Writer; the education of writers, issues of the market place and of translation.
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Audio version of the Mises Daily article for January 13, 2010. Written and read by Gennady Stolyarov II. http://mises.org
Text version of this audio presentation:
http://mises.org/daily/4008
G. Stolyarov II is an actuary, science fiction novelist, independent philosophical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right, Le QL, Rebirth of Reason, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Senior Writer for The Liberal Institute, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator, a magazine championing the principles of reason, rights, and progress. Mr. Stolyarov’s blog, The Progress of Liberty, offers a combination of commentary, multimedia presentations, educational materials, and suggestions for effective activism in favor of individual freedom.
Mr. Stolyarov also publishes his articles on Helium.com and Associated Content to assist the spread of rational ideas. He holds the highest Clout Level (10) possible on Associated Content. Mr. Stolyarov has also written a science fiction novel, Eden against the Colossus, a non-fiction treatise, A Rational Cosmology, and a play, Implied Consent. See his YouTube videos and G + W Audio Broadcasts, a new series of intellectual conversations by Mr. Stolyarov and his wife, Wendy.
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Author and physician Abraham Verghese discusses his new book “Cutting for Stone” with host Kecia Lynn.
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Iowa City, Iowa has been named one of three world “Cities of Literature” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It could be said that the city’s literary reputation began in 1936 with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was promoted to world prominence by poet Paul Engle.
Engle, a 1919 graduate of the University of Iowa not only made the Iowa Writers’ Workshop famous, he also co-founded with his wife, his wife, Hualing Nieh Engle, the International Writer’s Workshop, and was involved in organizing the National Council on the Arts.
This 1991 video contains excerpts from Iowa Public Television’s collection of programs about the poet. Also seen is his daughter, dancer Laulan King.
For more from IPTV visit…
http://www.iptv.org/video
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Author and physician Abraham Verghese discusses his new book “Cutting for Stone” with host Kecia Lynn.
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Author and physician Abraham Verghese discusses his new book “Cutting for Stone” with host Kecia Lynn.
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