David Ramseur

Literary Roundup | November 24-December 7, 2017

SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 7 PM | 49 Writers Reading & Craft Talk Series presents Crazy Russian Stories Alone Don’t Make a Book with author David Ramseur | Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, Russia and Alaska citizen diplomats braved Cold War tensions to join hands across […]

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Guest Blogger David Ramseur | Lessons from a First Book Experience

I confess to being a little intimidated when 49 Writers Executive Director Jeremy Pataky asked me to write four weekly blogs about writing, subject to harsh dissection by Alaska’s best writers. I lack a fine arts degree, never begin my day composing an original poem, and don’t even keep a journal—other than a log of

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Guest Blogger David Ramseur | Crazy Russian Stories Alone Don’t Make a Book

  Spritzing vodka on an Alaska Airlines jet when de-icing fluid couldn’t be found in the Russian Far East. Alaska’s First Lady forgetting her passport on the first high-profile visit to the USSR in 40 years. Launching notes of friendship across the Bering Strait tied to weather balloons instead of messages in a bottle to

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