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Ahead of the Curve on a Hot New Trend — Storytelling

March 26, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Jeff Greenwald introducing his storytellers at Book Passage performance last Friday. Photo by Jon Newhall.

Check out this article in Monday’s New York Times on the storytelling classes being offered all around the Big Apple. Looks like Jeff Greenwald’s storytellers are ahead of the cultural curve. Read more.

Jeff Greenwald’s Merry Band of Storytellers (Including Me) Makes Its Debut

March 19, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

It’s happening. Jeff Greenwald’s storytelling class will be peforming at 6 p.m. Friday at the Book Passage bookstore in San Francisco’s Ferry Building.

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The Rhetorician in the White House — Or, How I Learned to Love the Passive Voice

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The passive sentence gets a bad rap — it’s weak, it’s vague, it’s passive. But sometimes a neatly turned passive sentence is just what our ever-shrinking world needs. Obama’s Cairo speech is an example. Read more.

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