: Jay Rehak, Authors Off Campus Writers Workshop
: A Reason to Be Here Tales from the Writers Convention
: Windy City Publishers
: 9781941478806
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: CHF 7.30
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 176
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One-hundred-year-old best-selling author Alice Bainbridge is being feted by a convention of authors who variously admire or worship her. After her brief remarks, she has just one request for those who want to talk to her after the program: Forget the lavish praise, the gushing love, the groupie tears, she just wants to hear stories. 'Because listening to good stories is pretty much what's keeping me alive. So please, tell me a story. That's my reason for being here.' -Alice Bainbridge So that's what they did. Twenty-five intrepid storytellers stepped forward to answer Alice's challenge. These are their stories.
The Decision to Attend
What matters when adulation becomes passé?
by Jay Rehak
ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD RENOWNED author Alice Bainbridge hated it when she was referred to as a “master storyteller.” In her mind it always felt a little dishonest and a lot pretentious.
So when her caregiving grandson, Eddie, brought in the mail one cold Chicago January morning, and announced to her that she was to be honored in a month at the Midwest Writers Conference as a “master storyteller,” Alice wasn’t sure she would go.
“First of all, Eddie, I don’t need any more awards. I mean, if they give me a plaque, what would I do with it? You’ll just have to throw it out when I die. That’s just a waste of a good piece of wood.”
“Come on, Alice, it’s something to look forward to,” Eddie said.
“Second of all,” Alice said,