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

John Z
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@LindseyGrahamSC If the shoe fits, Pitty Pat. AND THE SHOE DEFINITELY FITS! GOP dark underbelly of racism now in full open display with your handler Trump. You wish your party was run by McCain, instead you've got dumb fuck. Good...
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@GOP @realDonaldTrump You got that last sentence right. It will be very easy not to vote for the Gang Of Pussygrabbers.
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@Telegraph Please. Bond jumped the shark in the 70s. No more Bond films!
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@SpeakerPelosi Why are you supporting Trump? Step down your speakership is over.
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@realDonaldTrump Comedy is not your Forte. You are more the child molester type.
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@SpeakerPelosi mistake today supporting the racist by not allowing impeachment vote. Your speakership is essentially over. I'm a CA constituent and you've lost me after years voting and supporting you. You are either against him or for him and today...
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There is no bottom. He has to go and the GOP must finally speak up! https://t.co/eu0HF5wZZw John Z Retweeted
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#Epstein #PedophileTrump Katie Johnson is now speaking w SDNY and 45 is 😱😱! Please keep this front and center. This is the real story here!! Don't get distracted!! https://t.co/PeJdW03eSO John Z Retweeted
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@realDonaldTrump @foxandfriends This is all @realDonaldTrump trying to distract us from the fact that soon Trump will be exposed as a child rapist. #KatieJohnson
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The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Richard J. Powell Richard J. Powell (John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Archibald J. Motley Jr.’s painting Portrait of My Grandmother (1922). Powell ... 4 1504 0 14 mins 1

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Jarob Ortiz | nga Jarob J. Ortiz, is a large-format photographer with the Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service (NPS). In the winter of 2015, the NPS commenced a job search for the next Ansel Adams (1902–1984), the landscape photographer commissioned by ... 7 1222 0 9 mins 0

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Press Event: By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs At the press event for By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, a tour was given by Diane Waggoner, curator of 19th-century photographs, National Gallery of Art. She was introduced ... 1 130 0 31 mins 2

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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 7 Miwako Tezuka, consulting curator, Reversible Destiny Foundation
Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As the first exhibition devoted to the subject, The Life of Animals in Japanese Art covers ... 5 1008 0 29 mins 1

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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 6 Federico Marcon, associate professor of East Asian studies and history and director of graduate studies, Princeton University
Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As the first exhibition devoted to ... 1 1765 0 42 mins 1

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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 5 Daniel McKee, adjunct assistant professor and bibliographer, department of Asian studies, Cornell University
Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As the first exhibition devoted to the subject, The Life ... 1 56 0 35 mins 1

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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 4 Rory A. W. Browne, director of the academic advising center and associate dean of Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College
Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As ... 1 1066 0 38 mins 1

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The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 3 R. Keller Kimbrough, professor of Japanese, department of Asian languages and civilizations, University of Colorado, Boulder
Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As the first exhibition devoted to the ... 1 1030 0 32 mins 1

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Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series John Zic shared a photo. 4 Likes

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An abandoned highway in the Rocky mountains of Canada An abandoned highway in the Rocky mountains of Canada 1 Repin Likes

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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
How about sending your old mom some of your fiction writing? Am a bit prejudiced, but I think you are ...Hey - you're MY SON - how about sending me copies of ALL of your stories? I am your biggest ...
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Dorothy Parker on Aspiring Writers Dorothy Parker on Aspiring Writers
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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 ...

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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
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Script for Lost Beckett Sitcom Pilot Uncovered In a brief but spirited correspondence with producer Norman Lear, the playwright weighed an original comedy about clerks in a dead-letter office.
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California Arts Council Arts education belongs in every California school. Help make it happen! Donate when you file your state taxes: tiny.cc/KAIS-17
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announcing Writing Ourselves Whole: the book Jen Cross, who facilitates a great Bay Area writing workshop, "Writing the Flood," has a book out! Congratulations!
Good morning, good morning. Outside my window, it’s still dusky, but the light is coming. Yesterday the puppy barked several times at ...

Posted: Over 2 years ago
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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 ... 59 2490 3 50 mins 0

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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 ... 15 654 0 49 mins 0

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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 ... 76 2595 0 50 mins 0

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Ray Chen & Luca D'Alberto "Bach-Teaser" TEASER track.
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