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Alan Alda, Laura Lindenfeld, and Aretha Sills in Conversation at AIN Conference

What an amazing night! Alan Alda, Laura Lindenfeld, and Aretha Sills talked about the 10th anniversary of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and how his work with Paul Sills and Viola Spolin was an inspiration for the original idea and program. It was an absolute pleasure and honor to learn about the exciting and vital work they are doing in science communication!

The event was part of the Applied Improvisation World Network Conference at Stony Brook University this August.

View photos here.

Townes Van Zandt Interview in First Print Edition of Los Angeles Review of Books

My piece about a 1994 interview with Townes Van Zandt is featured in the first print edition of Los Angeles Review of Books (the Spring 2013 issue), which they describe as “a selection of our best interviews and author questionnaires.”

Learn more at the LARB blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muddy Waters and Mozart: Remembering Townes Van Zandt in The Los Angeles Review of Books

In 1994, I interviewed Townes Van Zandt for Maybelle, the country music fanzine I co-edited. On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, Los Angeles Review of Books published my essay about the experience, Muddy Waters and Mozart: Remembering Townes Van Zandt. Check out the photos from Maybelle’s Fall 1994 issue. Someday I’ll write the story of a fanzine…

I’m happy to say this interview/essay was selected by LARB’s Senior Editor Julie Cline as one of her three favorite non-fiction pieces from their first year, and was picked up by Longform.org, Byliner, and 3quarksdaily, among other sites that curate longer pieces.

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