January
2005 Meeting
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Laugh
at Life
Mt Diablo Branch Welcomes Columnist Jean Gonick
Jean Gonick's Friday Datebook column (Failing at Living
- SF
Chronicle) is filled with humor and insights. The
author of the book Mostly
True Confessions, her articles have appeared in national
magazines such as G.Q., Redbook, and Good Housekeeping. The next
paragraph was
extracted from her SF State Univ. English class website.
Whither Jean
Gonick?
Once upon a time
she supported herself by writing for national magazines and craven
Hollywood producers. When she became too old to "take" meetings (and
when the R&D money dried up) it occurred to her that both writers
and teachers are, in essence, communicators, and that she should go
into teaching. English, of course; she'd majored in Creative Writing at
SFSU from '68 (The Strike) to '72 (Kent State), and she came back to
her alma mater in '01 (9-11) to earn her single subject credential. The
rest, as they say, is history.
Ms. Gonick will tell us how she fails at living and share examples
of how she handles humor in her columns. January 8th, 11:30 a.m. for
socializing, luncheon to
follow.
The Hungry Hunter restaurant is at 3201 Mt.
Diablo Blvd., Lafayette (corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd./Pleasant Hill Rd.)
Take the Pleasant Hill Rd. SOUTH exit off Hwy. 24 freeway. HH is just
south
of the freeway. In case you get lost, call (925) 938-3938 for
directions.
Failing
at
Living Archive Links to many (if not all) of
her
columns.
Meaningless
sex dances on the beach This one's about
writing (sort of).
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