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ASJA Writers Conference, ‘Tackling Tough Topics’ – Though many writers feel compelled to write about a difficult life circumstance, loss, or grief, it’s important to know how to structure content, what to include and what to omit. In writing tough topics, you have the opportunity to reach those who are hurting, feel alienated and alone, and are searching for ways to heal their pain.
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Pivot. Publish. Prosper. That is the theme of this year’s American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) writers conference. The ASJA is holding its annual conference at Roosevelt Hotel on May 5 and 6, 2017.
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On February 23 at 6:30 pm “Sweet Reads” at Joyce Bakeshop (646 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn) will feature the amazing Leigh Stein, author of three books and co-founder of Out of the Binders, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers, Dorri Olds, and Court Stroud, and musician Andy Marino.
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image: scene from Timecrimes Movies for Science Students and Sci-Fi Lovers If you’re a science student, chances are you don’t see the world through the same eyes as everybody else. You’re probably the one always looking for scientific inaccuracies in films and your friends probably love you or hate you for it. But there are some … Read more
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Ex-NYPD cop Ken Eurell sold cocaine and was memorialized in the documentary ‘The Seven Five’ wrote memoir ‘Betrayal in Blue: The Shocking Memoir of the Scandal that Rocked the NYPD.’
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‘How to Murder Your Life’ by Cat Marnell is what every addict memoir should be: adventure-packed, shocking, darkly humorous, and gut-wrenching—the only thing missing is sobriety. You’re likely to read it in one fast sitting. It’s a fascinating, yet disturbing, tale about Adderall addiction.
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Dorri Olds attended Tribeca Film Festival’s red carpet for “Kicks” on April 14, 2016. In attendance were cast members Jahking Guillory, Mahershala Ali, Kofi Siriboe, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Christopher Meyer and Michael Smith. Director and co-writer Justin Tipping was brave enough to be vulnerable.
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Dorri Olds met with Elvis Presley close friend Jerry Schilling. An exclusive interview. Topics include Tribeca Film Festival 5-star film Elvis and Nixon. Hilarious send-up re: peculiar piece of 1970 Americana. Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon)
Presley showed up unannounced at White House to ask Nixon to Elvis a federal agent.
Tribeca Film Festival’s 40th anniversary celebration of movie Taxi Driver at the Beacon Theatre included Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, writer Paul Schrader, producer Michael Phillips and TFF co-founder Jane Rosenthal.
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One of Tribeca Film Festival’s highlights this year was Detour, a suspenseful neo-noir thriller deliciously saturated in drugs and alcohol. The central character, Harper (heartthrob Tye Sheridan), is stepson to alcoholic no-goodnik Vincent, played by Stephen Moyer of True Blood. Also stars Bel Powley and Emory Cohen. Written and directed by Christopher Smith.
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