Blog – John Zic

Posted on June 28, 2017

Dorothy Parker on Aspiring Writers

Posted on June 26, 2017

Author Julia Fierro Discusses Point of View

Posted on July 18, 2016

Lauren Alwan’s “The Foreign Cinema”

Posted on January 30, 2016

A Cycle of Eternal Return

Posted on November 19, 2015

Why There Are Words Reading

Posted on July 16, 2015

Eugene O’Neill

Posted on July 6, 2015

A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things

Posted on June 15, 2015

Achingly Beautiful

Posted on June 14, 2015

It’s Alive!

Posted on December 16, 2014

Stephen Hawking

Posted on December 16, 2014

Henry David Thoreau

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.@LindseyGrahamSC-How’s your week been? You should’ve never told Don Jr. to not comply with the subpoena. You were obstructing justice when you did that and you know it. You’re a disgrace and you should resign yesterday. You’re one of the... John Z Retweeted
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.@Jim_Jordan claims the report exonerates him. It does not. It says the sexual abuse was an open secret widely known to coaches and asst coaches at the time he was there. It notes the investigation did not ascertain specifically which... John Z Retweeted
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The NRA Should Have Never Messed With the Parkland Kids https://t.co/aTqIHL3gZl John Z Retweeted
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Jonathan Clarke
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I am officially calling for the arrest of @stevenmnuchin1. He is not above the law & should not be treated as such. These are dangerous precedents to set. We cannot stand idly by & allow this administration to continue breaking... John Z Retweeted
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The Hill
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Rep. Maxine Waters: "I'm hopeful that the American public will support impeachment." https://t.co/dMxLU4S4QC John Z Retweeted
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David Corn
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Today would be a good day for @stevenmnuchin1 to follow the goddamn law. John Z Retweeted
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David Rothkopf
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Dems,
When they go low, we should go high-high powered, high intensity, high impact. Jail those who can be jailed. Fine those who can be fined. Censure those who can be censured. Impeach those who must be impeached. The GOP... John Z Retweeted
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THIS IS WHY!! PUTIN ORDERED TRUMP TO STOP SENDING OUR SOY BEANS TO CHINA!!!! Holy shit!!!
TRUMP SOLD OUT OUR OWN FARMERS TO PUTIN AND STILL NOBODY STOPS THIS MAN
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Posted: 2 days ago
National Gallery of Art

The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Nancy J. Troy Nancy J. Troy (Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art at Stanford University and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Piet Mondrian’s painting Tableau No. IV: Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, ... 3 1663 0 9 mins 1

Posted: 5 days ago
National Gallery of Art

The 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part... Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explores the narratives of Chinese art and their relationship to artistic ... 1 2185 0 60 mins 3

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National Gallery of Art

Black Dreams at Sea: The Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral and An Opera of the World Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist, playwright, scholar, and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Manthia Diawara, writer, cultural theorist, film director, scholar, and professor of comparative literature and cinema studies and director emeritus of the Institute of African American ... 1 2494 1 42 mins 1

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National Gallery of Art

The 68th A. W. Mellon Lectures: End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Part... Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explores the narratives of Chinese art and their relationship to artistic ... 3 1885 1 57 mins 3

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National Gallery of Art

Great America, Marshall-Russian (Русский) С 80-х годов XX века Керри Джеймс Маршалл использовал различные технологии и изобразительные средства, чтобы воспеть и рассказать о жизни чернокожих в Америке. «Великая Америка» — грандиозная повествовательная картина о непостижимой трагедии обращенных в рабство африканцев, переживших Средний путь. Зрителя ... 0 212 0 1 mins 1

Posted: 2 weeks ago
National Gallery of Art

Hope is: Wanting to Pull Clouds, Polke-Russian (Русский) На картине изображен молодой человек, который стоит на берегу моря, пытаясь повелевать облаками. Зигмар Польке взял этот образ из немецкой ксилографии XVI века, которая появилась в книге эпиграмм. Картина иллюстрирует цитату: «Надежда — это длинная веревка, которой многие тянут себя ... 0 148 0 2 mins 0

Posted: 2 weeks ago
National Gallery of Art

Mountains and Sea, Frankenthaler-Russian (Русский) «Горы и море» — прекрасный пример творчества Хелен Франкенталер, демонстрирующий созданную художницей технику размытых пятен: она разливала разведенные краски на незагрунтованный холст. Применяя этот метод, Франкенталер добивалась прозрачности цвета, который будто плавал в пространстве, а переплетения холста подчеркивали плоскостность изображения. ... 0 132 0 2 mins 0

Posted: 2 weeks ago
National Gallery of Art

Target, Johns -Russian (Русский) Художник Джаспер Джонс стал известен в 50-х годах XX века благодаря легко узнаваемой индивидуальной манере живописи абстрактных экспрессионистов. Характерным для него является изображение узнаваемых объектов в спокойной, кажущейся отстраненной и зачастую загадочной манере. Джонс почти всегда выбирает материалом для своего ... 0 122 0 1 mins 0

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Like to contact you. Your email keeps being returned as not valid. jtlehner@comcast.net 1 Comments
North Bay Writers peg@pegalfordpursell.com is the address!

Posted: Over a year ago
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John Zic - Events I'm very happy to be reading some of my fiction at this event in the company of six other amazing writers. I would love to see you there. 2 Comments
Hey - you're MY SON - how about sending me copies of ALL of your stories? I am your biggest ...How about sending your old mom some of your fiction writing? Am a bit prejudiced, but I think you are ...
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Posted: Over a year ago
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Dorothy Parker on Aspiring Writers Dorothy Parker on Aspiring Writers
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Posted: Over a year ago
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Author Julia Fierro Discusses Point of View Author Julia Fierro Discusses Point of View
https://www.johnzic.com/2017/06/26/author-julia-fierro-discusses-point-of-view/
Here is a link to the blog Writer Unboxed, and a discussion about deepening point of view, with author Julia Fierro, whose new novel “The Gypsy Moth Summer” was released in June ...

Posted: Over a year ago
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She Is a Battleground - Lunch Ticket Our own magnificent Nancy Au with a new magnificent flash fic publication.
Twelve-year-old butter boys face the old Chinese woman they call Baboochka. Imagine: the eighty-year-old woman on their apartment’s shared front stoop, the silver moon caught in her tousled ... 1 Comments
Awwww! Thank you so much!!! :0)

Posted: Over a year ago
John Zic

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WTAW Press/workshops and classes ICYMI: We're so excited for our first class, which you can still sign up for but only through Friday. The course will provide a community of acceptance based on core values of honoring individual expression, using the imagination and creative ...

Posted: Over 2 years ago
WSWorldBookClub

Jonathan Franzen - Freedom US literary superstar Jonathan Franzen talks about his hugely acclaimed novel Freedom. An epic of contemporary love and marriage, Freedom charts the exploits of the Berglund family, capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the ... 58 2446 3 50 mins 0

Posted: Over 2 years ago
WSWorldBookClub

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday World Book Club talks life, sex, drugs, if not rock ‘n’ roll to chart-topping Irish writer Marian Keyes about her best-selling novel Rachel’s Holiday. She answers BBC listeners' questions from around the world, and also reads several passages from her ... 15 637 0 49 mins 0

Posted: Over 2 years ago
WSWorldBookClub

JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye Harriet Gilbert discusses JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye with a studio audience, including questions from BBC World Service listeners as far afield as Nepal and the Czech Republic. She's in New York's Algonquin Hotel, long-time hangout ... 69 2318 0 50 mins 0

Posted: Over 2 years ago
WSWorldBookClub

Daniel Kehlmann This month World Book Club talks to bestselling German writer Daniel Kehlmann whose entertaining, and internationally acclaimed novel Measuring the World took the literary world by storm nine years ago.
In it he reimagines the lives of German mathematician Carl ... 9 246 0 50 mins 0

Posted: Over 2 years ago
WSWorldBookClub

Albert Camus - The Outsider One hundred years after his birth this month’s World Book Club, will be discussing Albert Camus' seminal novel The Outsider with his acclaimed biographer Oliver Todd, and Professor of French at Sheffield University, David Walker. And appropriately the programme comes ... 57 1335 0 53 mins 0

Posted: Over 2 years ago
WSWorldBookClub

Neil Gaiman Harriett Gilbert talks to the bestselling author Neil Gaiman, voted by listeners as the 'most wanted' guest for the programme.
Neil is a British writer, comic book author, a short-story writer, a science fiction and fantasy novelist, now living in ... 18 320 0 52 mins 0

Posted: Over 2 years ago
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WTAW Press There are still openings for this course that begins Jan. 1, 2017. Sign up now and enroll a friend, while you're at it! This will be an amazing experience.
This onine course is geared towards everyone who chose “Start writing ...

Posted: Over 2 years ago
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Ray Chen & Luca D'Alberto "Bach-Teaser" TEASER track.
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John Zic

My short story, "A Secret Mother" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The… My short story, "A Secret Mother" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The… 0 Repin Likes

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The Foaty Tower ruin in Co.Cork, Ireland. The Foaty Tower ruin in Co.Cork, Ireland. 3 Repin Likes

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Lounge, abandoned asylum | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Lounge, abandoned asylum | Flickr - Photo Sharing! 1 Repin Likes

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