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From Stephen Elliott
The editors of Throwing Stones at the Moon shed light on Colombia’s human rights crisis and the power of bringing survivors’ voices to a conversation dominated by the perpetrators and beneficiaries of the conflict.
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Fred White, Age 86
Mission, Kansas
“She was quite a doll and I didn’t want anybody else.”
My wife, Helen, and I have been married sixty-five years. I met her in junior high school.
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Dominic Sclafani, Age 30
Tucson, Arizona
“He’s like, ‘She’s going to eat you alive.’ And I go, ‘Yes, I know.’”
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Betty Anne May, Age 80
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
“That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
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“We need to be able to digest and give people who are very far away the time and space to tell their story in their own words
...more“Ed Paulsen was nineteen in 1931. He was a job applicant. San Francisco. ‘I’d get up at five in the morning and head for the waterfront. Outside the Spreckels Sugar Refinery, outside the gates, there would be a thousand men. You know dang well there’s only three or four jobs.
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Jeff Buckley: Having Tim Buckley as my father gave me the parts needed to play music. Even if I went and became a lawyer and someone asked me to sing something, I’d have the parts to sing. But that’s it.
...moreHarvey Pekar, the only famous comic-book creator who isn’t an artist himself, last month released a graphic adaptation of Studs Terkel’s Working with The New Press. Dave Gilson summarizes it on Mother Jones as not “the most far-fetched attempt to repackage” the classic 1974 collection of interviews with blue-collar workers — “that would be the 1978 Broadway musical of the same name.”
...moreDavid Lynch’s most recent project seems to be a complete departure from the epic, surreal fictions that made him famous: a collection of oral histories of ordinary people, which he has called simply Interview Project. The research concept was straightforward: send a film team out on a long road trip, and along the way, stop people on the side of the road, in bars, and in restaurants, and ask them to talk about their lives.
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