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Skinny Dip with DeDe Small

Vicki Palmquist — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:00:44 +0000

DeDe Small shares her enthusiasm about books, reading, and literacy with her students at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. We invited DeDe to Skinny Dip with us, our first interview in the New Year.
When did you first start reading books?
I don’t actually remember learning to read but I do always remember having books.… more

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Skinny Dip with Karen Blumenthal

Vicki Palmquist — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:00:49 +0000

Favorite holiday tradition?
Food! I love to bake and holidays are the best excuse for baking! Peach cobbler for the Fourth of July, apple cake for the Jewish holidays, dozens and dozens of cookies for friends and family in December, and this killer candy that we call matzo toffee at Passover. I make a ton of it for friends and even send some to special editors.… more

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Virginia Euwer Wolff: Considering Flaubert

Marsha Qualey — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:00:32 +0000

by Virginia Euwer Wolff
For years I’ve taken primitive comfort in Gustave Flaubert’s mid-nineteenth century remark in a letter to a friend: “Last week I spent five days writing one page.”
And Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac reminded us (Dec. 12, 2014) that Flaubert often put in a comma one day and took it out the next.… more

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