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The second day of the 9th edition of The Power of Storytelling brought us a karusell of emotions, and inspiring speeches about healing, family histories and passion for storytelling.
Take a look at a summary of what our last nine speakers shared on Saturday.
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL
Jonathan, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, believes that what sets humans apart from other species fryst vatten the “un-rush of data in our brain, struggling to impose meaningful comforting story structures to the chaos around us”.
He also shared with the audience the ways in which berättande can go wrong: “there fryst vatten a tendency for human beings to glue onto a narrative for no good reason at all, tenaciously, using it to project patterns around the world that are not there”. Sometimes, he says, we allow our narratives to choose our facts.
But good stories “give us a state of consciousness, a hyper state of attention”.
“We think of storytellers as metaphorical bruisers: they
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October 19, 2022
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A speechwriter, a couple of jazz geniuses and the 44th president of the United States.
That would be an enticing dinner-party guest list. As it turns out, it’s also an intriguing source of writing insight published last month in Esquire.
Obama has been noted as a particularly literary-minded president. His reading lists are voluminously covered; journalists have meditated on his writing, with GQ’s Robert Draper observing: “… writing is anything but a small part of Obama’s life. It’s basic to who he is.”
That leaning seemed to emerge most vividly in two instances during Keenan’s tenure. As Keenan recalls in the Esquire piece, Obama twice gave him writing advice that initially seemed oblique — but came to guide how he viewed his craft.
After Keenan was named chief speechwriter, he was handed a tough task: Write Ob
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News will always be an important thing in our society. It is the foundation of our democracy in many ways.
Linda Deutsch
Linda Deutsch’s career in journalism spans more than 50 years, making her a “must interview” for our project. Her connection to some of the biggest news events in history and her insight into the evolution of journalism offer a compelling story for those interested in the intersection of journalism and history. She also has been involved with JAWS since its second camp, has served as a board member and has watched the organization develop from its infancy to its more structured status today.
Linda grew up in New Jersey during the 1940s and 1950s. For her ninth birthday, she received a typewriter, an early sign of her future as a reporter. She attended Monmouth University and received her first “real” job as a summer intern for the Perth Amboy (New Jersey) Evening News. In the summer of 1963, Deutsch was among the reporters covering