Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall reports from the scene on books, writing . . . and life as she knows it.
Jeff Greenwald introducing his storytellers at a Book Passage performance last Friday. Photo by Jon Newhall.
It looks like Jeff Greenwald and his Merry Band of Storytellers are ahead of the curve. Check out this article in Monday’s New York Times on the storytelling classes being offered all around the Big Apple even as we speak. It seems maybe the storytelling subculture I’ve been nattering on about is not so sub after all. [Read more...]
Lauren Patti, a short memoir
Some thirty writers and storytellers took the mic — for three short minutes each – to share their works in progress Friday evening at Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. The writers had been taking classes in memoir, young adult fiction, the short story, personal essay, storytelling and the novel at the Writers Grotto.
Jon and I took along our trusty camera, and I’m publishing pictures here of many folks as they read. Among the crowd pleasers were Oliver Williams’ short story about a little boy who could fly, Lauren Patti’s memoir about being short (which she is), and Chris Caldeira’s short story about — let’s call it penis envy and leave it at that. [Read more...]
At last Friday’s Grotto readings, one writer read from her ”Cheating Dining Room Table” MS on her smart phone.
It’s happening. Jeff Greenwald’s storytelling class will be peforming at 6 p.m. Friday, March 23, at the Book Passage bookstore in San Francisco’s [Read more...]
Jeff Greenwald
By Barbara Falconer Newhall
I’m getting out of my writing room long enough to take Jeff Greenwald’s Page to Stage class at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. [Read more...]
