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| Credits: Writers Series | Guest: Paul Rushworth-Brown | 
Celebrating the Arts, Culture & Life | Author Insights
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| Credits: Writers Series | Guest: Paul Rushworth-Brown | 
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| Credit: Bag Man; Lew Frankfort | 
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| Credit: True Nature; Lance Richardson | 
Overview
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), a towering figure of twentieth-century American letters, achieved so much during his lifetime, in so many different areas, that people have struggled to pin him down. While ambivalent about his WASP privilege—as a teenager he demanded that his name be removed from the New York Social Register—he attended Yale and cut his teeth in postwar Paris, co-founding The Paris Review as he worked undercover for the CIA. But then, after a rebellious stint as a Long Island fisherman, he escaped into a series of wild expeditions: floating through the Amazon to recover a prehistorical fossil; embedding with a tribe in Netherlands New Guinea; swimming with sharks off the coast of Australia. His novels, inspired by his travels, were unclassifiable meditations about Caymanian turtle hunters and frontier outlaws in the Florida Everglades. Meanwhile, his nonfiction became legendary: nature books like Wildlife in America—“key parts of the canon of emergent environmental writing,” says Bill McKibben—as well as advocacy journalism supporting Cesar Chavez, Leonard Peltier, and Native American land claims. Credit: True Nature; Better World Books.

Credit: The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian 
Overview
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| Credit: Don't Be Yourself, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | 
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| Credit: Sasha Talks | Writers Series, Guest Sora Vernikoff | 
Sora Vernikoff is a No Diet, Weight-Loss Coach at www.nodieting.net. Over 20 years ago, Sora healed herself of compulsive overeating by transferring her classroom “management” techniques to food “management” techniques thanks to her educational expertise teaching really challenged kids in East New York, Brooklyn. This led to the development of an easy to use no-diet, weight-loss system that she went on to teach to hundreds of unhappy dieters. Sora’s book "Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want! A No-Diet, Weight-Loss Program" became a #1 Amazon Best Seller when it was published; also her book became the 2018 Distinguished Favorite by The New York City Big Book Award Contest. As an educator, speaker and author, Sora teaches her no diet system both online and offline. She likes to say, “If you want to eat what you want, stop when you want and become forever thin and healthy, then visit nodieting.net and start making peace with food today.” Credit: Sora Vernikoff; NoDieting.net.
Sora's Writer Series appearance is also available @ ❤️iHeartRadio.
Credit: Sasha Talks | Writers Series, Guest Sora Vernikoff Sora Vernikoff is a No Diet, Weight-Loss Coach at www.nodieting.net. Over 20 ye...
