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Monthly Archives: June 2004

An Interview with Book Lust author Nancy Pearl (the Most Avid Reader Anyone Knows)

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 24, 2004 by Nancy PearlOctober 1, 2011

After years of spreading the word far and wide about reading and drumming up interest in books and literature, Nancy Pearl, the Seattle Library’s Director of Programming and Director for the Washington Center for the Book, has a new book out herself.  It’s entitled Book Lust:  Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason.  At … Continue reading →

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Writing to Explore Admiration, Part 2

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 17, 2004 by Sheila BenderMay 20, 2019

Many of us know the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night“ by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who is pleading in his famous villanelle that his father not easily give in to death.  The archetype of the father is strong in all of us, even if our own fathers remain enigmas to … Continue reading →

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Ashes

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 4, 2004 by Sheila BenderOctober 1, 2011

This essay first appeared in Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay, Volume 9, Number 2. Feldman Brothers’ mortuary of Denver called two days after Seth’s death to say we could come to get his ashes.  My husband Kurt and I left for the mortuary with the idea of driving to scatter some of our … Continue reading →

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