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ASJA American Society of Journalists and Authors June 2012 newsletter is out! Read the article about the annual conference Writing Boot Camp Recap.
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May 2012 ASJA Monthly cover article Writer’s Voice with quotes from writers Gina Wendkos, Sally Wendkos Olds, Steve Geng, Bruce Frankel, Dani Shapiro, Susan Shapiro, Janine Latus, Harvey Shapiro, Howard Fast, Robert Gottlieb, Blaise Pascal and agent Ryan Fischer-Harbage
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Dorri Olds is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in book anthologies, magazines and newspapers including The New York Times. She has interviewed celebrities Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen and many more and has appeared on TV and radio shows including CNN’s Dr. Drew. In addition, Olds is a web designer, social media consultant and graphic designer.
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Actor James Franco talks with Dorri Olds for The Jewish Daily Forward about acting, Bob Dylan and his movie The Broken Tower.
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‘Hit So Hard’ is a drugumentary, er… rockumentary about the life and near-death of drummer Patty Schemel, a member of Nineties rock band, Hole.
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An Interview with Willem Dafoe, star of ‘The Hunter’ about a hunt for the last Tasmanian Tiger. Film opens Friday, April 6. Directed by Daniel Nettheim and based on the book by Julia Leigh. It also stars Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor.
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Beware the Ides of March! The importance of the ides of March for Caesar is that it is the day he will be assassinated by a group of conspirators, including Brutus and Cassius. Despite numerous and improbable portents—the soothsayer’s warning, some fearsome thundering, his wife’s dreams of his murder, and so on—Caesar ventures forth on the ides to meet his doom.
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Dorri Olds will be a panelist at Wielding the Power of Wordpress at the annual conference of the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). This is 2012’s bootcamp for writers. Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project will be this year’s luncheon speaker.
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My guest appearance on CNN’s Dr. Drew show located at Columbus Circle, New York City. Essay in New York Times about seeing my rapist on Facebook.
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CNN/HLN’s Dr. Drew interviewed Dorri Olds about her New York Times essay about teen trauma and seeing the boys (now men) on Facebook. Facebook suggested she friend one of the boys who ganged up on her when she was 13. She didn’t report it for fear of school bullying.
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