Dan Wakefield

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Join us at the Red Key for a listening party of Naptown Season One! We'll listen to an episode hosted by Susan Neville featuring stories of my life.Register here for free:
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Join us at the Red Key for a listening party of Naptown Season One! We'll listen to an episode hosted by Susan Neville featuring stories of my life.
Register here for free:
https://t.co/qEAWEsOipV

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"I wrote a poem when I was nine years old predicting the outcome of the state tournament"
Hear more on how I was published at age nine: https://t.co/fynXGanO4O

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"I think the great teachers always go above and beyond of whatever they're required to do. Because they genuinely want to share with you, you can feel that emotion...and it is an honor." — Sophie Faught on mentors, during this Uncle Dan & Sophie Jam. https://t.co/NkzIqHxDU3

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And I feel as young and hungry as ever!

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Fans of Jake Query's sports radio show "Query and Shultz" on 1260 AM will be glad to know he is back on the air. Query's new show "Beyond the Bricks" with co-host historian Mike Thomsen airs nightly from 8-9 PM on 1070AM and/107.5FM.

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"...veterans showed me where the great poet Dylan Thomas had his last drink before he passed out and died of alcoholism. And I thought, 'Wow! that's great, maybe I too can aspire to that!"

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"As I started writing it, I was really having fun. I had my agent send it to 10 publishers, only 3 were interested, and 1 loved it who was also the publisher of Kurt Vonnegut's novels. And he asked, 'Do you mind if I send your book to Kurt?'" https://t.co/zGkZqIOifj

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"When I interviewed you back in the 90s, I asked 'Do you remember the train you came to New York on?' I remember going from 61st and Winthrop on the Monon and going to Chicago to get to New York."

More with my friend David Amram: https://t.co/rYOXYUfDFv

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"There's been a long history of black Americans going to France, beginning with Josephine Baker in the 1920s to James Baldwin who spent the last years of his life there."

On racism: https://t.co/F6m5ZxunK1

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"Cole [Porter] didn't write the lyrics first or the melody first. He wrote the rhythm, and then the words. That truly takes a genius mind to do it time and time again." More from Cathy Day, myself, and Sophie Faught in this podcast recording: https://t.co/Bg7VDTvKh1

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"Besides, he's not the state's oldest author — that distinction goes to his friend Dan Wakefield, who's 88 and lives in Broad Ripple."

James is right. You never want to be the oldest living anything.

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My good friend Bryan Fonseca died last year of COVID-19 complications. The Fonseca Theatre Company which bears his name is preparing for a strong return and I couldn't be happier for them. The Star has some details of upcoming shows: https://t.co/WdTxapzyCY

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"Kurt was a tall, shaggy, friendly man and in a laughter-filled conversation with eight guests. We didn't talk about writing. We talked about high school. Our bond was we were both failures at high school sports." https://t.co/5tUbQ59LjG

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A year ago today, my good friend Jim Powell died. He was a huge presence in the Indiana writing community and one of the best editors I ever knew. My words from then are just as pertinent today: https://t.co/4J7yZo6ENj

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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
—James Baldwin

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A quick glance back at a few guest appearances and interviews I was lucky to take part in this year: https://t.co/KyywG0xrlv

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Earlier this year, I got to appear in a 45-minute episode of the Charles Bruce Foundation's Still Left Out in America Podcast, hosted by Pat LaMarche. In it, we talk about the Emmet Till murder trial, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Listen to the full episode at https://t.co/H5zekK5bQj

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Like I shared the other day, this documentary is coming to theaters (remember theaters?) next year. https://t.co/WXxjLdDyBp

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My dear friend Kurt Vonnegut was born on this day in 1922. My friends Robert B. Weide and Don Argott have a documentary about Kurt slated for a theatrical release next year. And if this isn't nice, what is? https://t.co/aXpwAFA0y3