Elizabeth Bales Frank
Our instructor in Literary Nonfiction is Dinty W. Moore, the editor of the online publication Brevity. Our first handout contains this wonderful quote from Reynolds Price:
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo Sapiens -- second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
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So glad you are there and that it is even better than you'd expected. I am living vicariously at the moment—can't wait to hear more!
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