tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post3582340601802669542..comments2024-03-22T14:13:55.418-07:00Comments on wmtc: barbara ehrenreich, rest in power. i will miss you.laura khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post-34922031646620920052022-10-02T08:13:56.460-07:002022-10-02T08:13:56.460-07:00Dean, thanks so much for sharing that. What a love...Dean, thanks so much for sharing that. What a lovely memory! How smart and sensitive of Ehrenreich to change plans that way. <br /><br />On a tangent... I once had a similar thing happen when organizing a YA author appearance when I was a youth-services librarian. We ended up sitting around a table -- the author, me, and 5 or 6 teens from my teen book club. They asked her great questions about the book they had read, but soon the questions were all about writing and how to become a writer. She was so thoughtful and encouraging. She even gave out her email address so they could email her questions if they wanted. <br /><br />The writer died a year or so later, and I realized she must have had cancer at the time of that program.<br /><br />It's very sad that we won't have any new books from either of these authors. laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post-51791777429360685622022-10-01T18:55:10.959-07:002022-10-01T18:55:10.959-07:00Such a nice tribute to Ehrenreich. She was one of ...Such a nice tribute to Ehrenreich. She was one of my favorite writers, too. A memory I have of her is also from a lifetime ago, 1994-95, when I had walked into a university building to attend a talk on Guatemala and saw a sign that said that Barbara Ehrenreich was speaking in the same building in a different room. I immediately changed my plans and went to see Ehrenreich, whose work I had only recently discovered. I walked into the lecture room right on time and there were only about ten people there! "The organizers didn't publicize it for some reason," Ehrenreich said, shaking her head, and then she said we'd just pull up a table and sit around it and talk, so we got virtually one-on-one time with her for about an hour. I didn't say much at all because there were a few students there who really engaged with her, but she addressed the country's and the Democratic Party's rightward drift as they followed the Republicans, changes since the 1960s, etc. When her essay collection <i>The Snarling Citizen</i> came out a few. months later, I got a copy, shared it with friends, and never got it back, they liked it so much. I really do miss her.deanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10918376599053837764noreply@blogger.com