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Richard Dauenhauer and Nora Marks Dauenhauer take questions about their work. Our thanks go to Alaska State Writer Laureate Nora Marks Dauenhauer and former Poet Laureate Richard Dauenhauer for their most enjoyable reading last Friday at the UAA/APU Consortium Library. Selections covered the full range of their work, from Nora’s ever-popular “How to Make Good
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Screenwriter Mary Katzke, our February featured writer, is adapting Kathyrn Harrison’s The Seal Wife for the screen — a process she has been describing in her weekly guest-posts. We left off in the middle of the second act. The second act is always the hardest because one usually knows where to start a story and
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Screenwriter Mary Katzke, our February featured writer, is adapting Kathyrn Harrison’s The Seal Wife for the screen — a process she has been describing in her weekly guest-posts. Is eating constantly really healthier than cigarettes? Maybe it’s just the lack of any good choices in my hero’s world– he’s always hungry. Where did I get
Screenwriter Mary Katzke, our February featured writer, is adapting Kathyrn Harrison’s The Seal Wife for the screen — a process she began describing in her last blogpost. In today’s post, we get another peek into the process… There is a most annoying drip coming from the bath in this cheapest condo available. Corin has made
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Welcome to Mary Katzke, our February Featured Writer.I was unsettled this morning because when we were rapidly packing to head to Alyeska for ski camp I found yet more fallen leaves from my prize tree. They flutter down noisily this time of year, and each time I think I will lose her. There were three
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Do we need a “Writer’s Room,” as so many bigger cities have — a public place where, for the price of a daily latte (that’s about the rate in NYC any way), a writer can have some quiet space, a desk, and maybe a sense of community? Writer and filmmaker Mary Katzke would like to
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Sitting here eating matzoh for breakfast, with tonight’s big seder still ahead. Because this is a Jewish holiday, I am passing over the opportunity to blog at length, and instead sending you to some other links. First, you might remember that we interviewed filmmaker Mary Katzke recently about her “About Face” documentary, to be screened
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And now for the non-personal stuff, all of it good: Gail Palmer of Art Services North is looking for Alaska authors wanting to do readings at a major public celebration of Alaska statehood, on January 3, 2009. She writes: “The Anchorage Commission, 50 Years will be coordinating entertainment (including the author readings) for one of
