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Dave Astor: A Journalist's Journalist

Don McNay | Posted 11.28.2012 | Media
Read More: Newspapers, Books, Dear Abby, Don McNay, Syndicated Columnists, Media, Editor and Publisher, Journalism, Arianna Huffington, Ann Landers, Comic Strips, Media History, Dave Astor, Walter Cronkite, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, The Far Side, Comic (and Column) Confessional, Heloise, Media News
Don McNay

Dave's beat allowed him to have close interactions with columnists like Ann Landers, Dear Abby, Walter Cronkite and just about every cartoonist who has ever walked the planet. He writes about those people and experiences in Comic (and Column) Confessional.

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Close and Not-So-Close Encounters With Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 07.23.2012 | Books
Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Ernest Hemingway, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, France, Cartoonists, Isaac Asimov, Novels, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Paul Cezanne, Mark Twain, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, John Updike, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles M. Schulz, Books News
Dave Astor

Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors. These might involve seeing novelists at book signings, listening to them give a talk, or visiting homes/museums connected with famous authors of the past.

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Many a City Is 'Title Town'

Dave Astor | Posted 09.06.2011 | Books
Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Ford Madox Ford, Toronto, John Steinbeck, Chicago, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Boston, Edward Bellamy, Detroit Lions, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Atwood, Canada, Jules Verne, Detroit Institute of Arts, Amy Tan, Quebec City, Frida Kahlo, E.L. Doctorow, Phoenix, Terry McMillan, Diego Rivera, San Francisco, James Hilton, Ford Field, Willa Cather, Books News, Detroit, Books News
Dave Astor

Do you read so much fiction that visiting a city almost always reminds you of certain novels?

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One Complete Idiot's Guide to Hospitality Suite Scrapbooks

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Tea Party, Nebraska, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Bloggers, Twitter, Zoology, Basketball, Democratic Party, California, Indiana University, Mickey Mantle, New Jersey, Typewriters, Scrapbooking, BP Oil Spill, Bloomington Indiana, Detroit, Comedy News
Dave Astor

My misleading last name (I'm not rich!) begins with "A." I hold a position (archivist) on the National Society of Newspaper Columnists board that also...

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Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Boston, New Orleans, Dialects, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Katrina, Accents, Diversity, Regional Dialects, Healthy Living News
Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

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