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Interview w Marlo Thomas was fantastic!!!!! She even HUGGED me. She is a humble, gracious, sincere, warm person. She’s smart and fun and full of energy and beautiful. She’s 72 and still an activist. I love That Girl. Will write more later after I transcribe that wonderful interview. Gosh it was a great day.
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Good news! I just got an assignment to interview Marlo Thomas one-on-one. I’m rather pleased. As a kid I watched her on TV and loved her. I owned her album, Free To Be You and Me —a fun kids record. One phrase from that record still sticks in my head. It was one infant talking to … Read more
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Written by Dorri Olds. Excerpt from NYC Resident magazine September issue. To read about Top 10 Movies, Theatre and Art go to my published articles section and click on the upper left cover thumbnail image. TOP 10 Non-fiction: THE PAIN CHRONICLES—Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering. Author: Melanie … Read more
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Check out this month’s NYC Resident magazine to see my Fall Top 10 picks. Comments always welcome.
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Be sure to check out the new book by author Wendy Shanker, Are You My Guru? How Medicine, Meditation & Madonna Saved My Life. On the day of the book’s release party one of those inexplicable coincidences took place in downtown Manhattan. It was Tuesday, September 7th when Shanker’s best friend Samantha Saturn was headed … Read more
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Top 10 movie list, Top 10 Literature list. Tomorrow I shall tackle the Top 10 Theatre and Art lists. On top of that I’ve been reading tons of stuff on search engine optimization and monitoring my own website. I’m happy to report that just as I’ve always said, the more you promote yourself online, the … Read more
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This August issue of the New York City Resident magazine contains 3 of my latest articles: Do You Have a Tale to Tell and Sell? About Susan Shapiro’s career and personal essay/book publishing classes • What Can You Do? About Bruce Frankel’s new book, What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life? • … Read more
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After 13 years, Susan Shapiro’s book Overexposed was published. The author gave it a “Book Mitzvah.” A crowd of close friends, family, colleagues and students surrounded the cake for the candlelighting ceremony. Rabbi Dan blessed the book at Arte Restaurant on East 9th Street, NYC. Shapiro’s Mom flew in from Michigan as a surprise to … Read more
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stumbling upon sites I would never have known about otherwise. Today I came across this touching site: beyondaglimpse.com. It is a book (in progress) that seeks to encourage seeing beauty in those who are born with deformities. It will be full of drawings and I’m so happy to have found the site. I’m continually amazed … Read more
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“‘Three minutes to fix your life.’ That’s what the headlines promised after the launch of my debut novel Speed Shrinking, where I introduced the world to the concept of free speed dating with therapists.” says author Susan Shapiro. It seemed a clever, timely idea in a lousy economy—and one that might help promote my book.” …
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