Jonathan Santlofer
Talking about art and writing and culture, mostly new, occasionally older, hopefully enlightening and for your entertainment.
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The Book Tour (opens the original)
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My NYC Book Launch (opens the original)
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Chatting with Bestselling Author Hank Phillippi Ryan (opens the original)
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As promised, my interview with the amazing Hank Phillippi Ryan. The former investigative journalist and on-air reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, she was awarded an unprecedented 37 Emmy Awards! When she made the switch to writing, her first very first novel “Prime Time,” won the Agatha Award. Since then, her novels have been USA Today bestsellers and won just about every major crime fiction award including the Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, and the highly esteemed Mary Higgins Clark award.Her latest no
Grieving (opens the original)
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I was just informed that today, August 30th is National Grief Day. I did not know that such a day existed. Does it mean this is the one specific day delegated to grieving those we have a lost, or a day dedicated to collective grieving, like we have been doing recently for the much-beloved Dolly Parton? (See my earlier post on Dolly.) That’s not really grief. It is more shock and loss for someone we imagined would be in our lives forever, a celebrity, someone apart from us and not quite real, who
The One & Only Dolly Parton (opens the original)
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