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20.2 - Rookie at the Top - XBM's Task: SUNY Brockport Writers Forum
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Thanks. I should have thought of that. I just love that translation so much. :)
I know that you said we did not need to read a book from the list...just a book by the author on the list. However, I was surprised to find that I had 7 books on that list already on my TBR! I will definitely be reading one of them. OH, and the other interesting fact, most were recommended by friends!
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I also have 7, along with the 24 that I've already read. I'll be curious to see what people choose.
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In my former life I was an academic librarian at SUNY Brockport, and while there created an open access repository called Digital Commons at Brockport. One of my favorite collections was the Writers Forum, which featured interviews of authors, poets, essayists, etc. recorded over the 50 years. We have everything from Poet Laureates, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, to faculty authors, including a 45 year old recorded interview of Isaac Asimov. In all, more than 500 authors have visited Brockport.
In my retirement, I want to read as many of those authors as possible, and I have created a list on Listopia with a good sampling of these authors.
Read a book by one of the AUTHORS on this list: Authors From the Brockport Writers Forum. It does NOT need to be the book on the list. Caution: All SRC rules apply: some entries on the list do not meet the length requirements. 2 books of poetry or plays by the same single author may be combined to reach the page threshold.
Optional: Visit the Writers Forum on Digital Commons and see if your author has a recorded video. One of my favorites is the video of Isaac Asimov from 1976.