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Donald Proffit

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Donald Proffit, a visionary in the creative arts and former arts educator, has been short-listed for the 2024 William Saroyan International Writing Prize in nonfiction for his memoir, Hardship Alaska. With a background in music, dance, and visual arts, Donald has presented workshops and original performances worldwide, including in Israel, where his work helped foster dialogue among Israeli, Palestinian, and American youth. His accolades include a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Teacher Fellowship and the D. Bennet Mazur Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Personal Liberty Fund of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition.

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	Hardship Alaska 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Intrigue, legacy, and humor are masterfully blended in Mitchell Berg’s debut novel, Flying on the Wings of Mercury, where readers are taken on a captivating journey through time and place, from 1920s Chicago to Depression-era Brooklyn, resulting in a ...more
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Donald Proffit and 5 other people liked Gregory Ashe's blog post: Between You and Me Release Oct. 21 "Hunting a killer is scary. Talking about your feelings is scarier. Hi, everyone! I'm happy to announce that BETWEEN YOU AND ME, book five of The Last Picks, is out today! When Dash finds a body inside an amusement park..." Read more of this blog post »
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Frank Castelluccio’s MOONGLADE AND OTHER STORIES is a captivating journey through the varied landscapes of human experience. Each story uncovers the sublime hidden in the mundane, revealing deep emotional insights and life’s poignant, sometimes painf ...more
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“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters. He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and the accumulating revelation is an unspeakable anguish. The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

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