Olds News
Dorri Olds tells her personal account of battling a bully of a boss who made sexual harassment a daily occurrence. Other women refused to help, but Olds took the best revenge.
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Cockroaches scampered up the bed and scurried across my Greenwich Village apartment floor. A tarantula writhed atop my dresser. I knew I was hallucinating. The empty liter of Bacardi rum glared at me next to barren packets of cocaine. I had hit bottom in my addiction.
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In the house I grew up, Mom had a framed letter from Coretta Scott King dated Nov. 10, 1966. It was a letter of thanks. “I would like to thank you very much for your interest in and support of my recent Freedom Concert in Chicago,” Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote. “Much of the success of these concerts depends upon persons such as yourself who devote time and energy in their promotion and support.”
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Here is a listing of the book anthologies that have published interviews and creative nonfiction by Dorri Olds. This list includes personal essays and short stories and includes Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
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Krispy Kreme doughnuts flooded my garden with the overwhelming smell of sugar and grease. So, I took it to The New York Times. It’s nice when an American can see results from a protest.
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Feeling stressed, horrified, and helpless? Are you aching to help but don’t know where to start? This is a Black Lives Matter advocacy guide is compiled by Jessica Petrow-Cohen of the Leadership Now Project. She has compiled this list of resources for anyone who is as horrified by racism as so many of us are.
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My father was an Army Captain in WWII. He described what it was like when he and his driver saw the town of Dachau. “A pretty little farming village, green grass, a church spire, neat little houses—a German Currier and Ives. From the village you could see the smokestacks of the ovens, just a few miles away. A terrible rage shook me. There is no way the townspeople didn’t know about the ovens. There was a sweet horrible smell of burned flesh.”
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Enclave Reading series on Saturday night was standing room only. Held at Cumming Club in Manhattan’s East Village, the joint was chockablock with hot bodies and talent. The four authors: Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York, Lara B. Sharp, Barb Morrison and Christopher Stoddard. Host and co curator Jason Napoli Brooks.
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Dudes Against Violence Against Women Because DUH. Nonprofit Breakthrough fundraiser. Male Comics Stand Up for Women. Wed, July 18, 2018 at the Gotham Comedy Club. Featuring comedians from 30 Rock, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Negin Farsad (NPR, HBO, Fake the Nation) is emcee for the night.
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Jane Fonda, 2-time Oscar-winning actress (and 7-time Oscar nominee), 4-time Golden Globe winner, 2-time BAFTA winner, and Emmy Award winner, will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Oscar-winner Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine). The award will be presented to Fonda during the festival’s 14th annual edition, running July 31 to August 5 along the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan in Traverse City, Michigan.
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