19:05:48 From steven goldstein to Everyone:

                    Lynne Cherry  children’s books  The Great Kapok Tree; A River Ran Wild/ How We Know What We Know About our ChangingClimate: Scientist and Kids Explore Global Warming

19:06:25 From leslie lawrence to Everyone:

                    Hi Everyone,  Hope you'll take a look at my website.  leslielawrencewriter.com  My book, a memoir in essay form , is called The Death of Fred Astaire:  A life Outside the Lines.  (SUNY Press). You’ll especially enjoy the parts about Oberlin.

19:07:18 From Marsha Schweitzer to Everyone:

                    Author, The Arts from the Bottom Up https://www.archwaypublishing.com. See other publications at musicforwinds.net.

19:11:28 From Douglas Rose to Everyone:

                    Follow David Tempest '72 and Kathy TeKolste Tempest ‘72 NOW on their daily Blog north along the path of the Underground Railroad New Orleans to Oberlin

                    https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=3d2&doc_id=24171&v=14

                    This is the link to the additional Underground Railroad program website providing additional history on the UGRR route and links to donate to related worthwhile causes: https://advance.oberlin.edu/campaigns/the-road-to-reunion

19:13:56 From Mary Louisa Locke to Everyone:

                    M. Louisa Locke, Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, https://mlouisalocke.com  A USA Today bestselling series of cozy historical mysteries based on my doctoral dissertation research on working women of the far west at the end of the 19th century. Also a science fiction trilogy as part of an open source, multi-author universe.

19:14:18 From Judith Small to Everyone:

                    Hi to all -- I'm a poet, mainly; my most recent publication is "Second Tongue." www.judithsmall.com.

19:17:36 From Susan Ashlin Harris to Everyone:

                    I've been covering the plant world for 16 years at an international team blog, where my posts  can be found at: http://gardenrant.com/author/susanharris

                    My blog about the Utopian New Deal city of Greenbelt, MD is GreenbeltOnline.org.

19:19:26 From Joe Blitman to Everyone:

                    I’ve written three standard reference books on vintage Barbie dolls (which I’m certain none of you would want to read), but of more general interest is a blogpost I wrote on a unique piece of Hollywood memorabilia.  Read it on www.hollywoodhat.com

19:29:37 From Mary Louisa Locke to Everyone:

                    I am also, like Delia Pitts, a successful indie author, 11 novels, 13 shorter works. Always happy to talk about this route to publication. Currently talking about my indie journey on my substack site, An Aging Author’s Daily Diversions. https://marylouisalocke.substack.com/

19:32:37 From Gayle Pinderhughes to Everyone:

                    Question for Ed Duncan, please tell us how your protagonist emerged/ developed in your life.

19:33:30 From mark brumbaugh to Everyone:

                    question to Shira:  is it all Chinatown, Jake?

19:33:42 From Gayle Pinderhughes to Everyone:

                    Question for Delia Pitts: When you presented to the DC alumni club you talked a lot about your writing process.  Please share some of that story.

19:34:13 From Shira Rosan to Everyone:

                    Mark Brumbaugh, you are still a wiseass.

19:35:28 From Delia Pitts to Everyone:

                    Thanks, Gayle!

19:37:21 From Gayle Pinderhughes to Everyone:

                    Question for Shira:  Has your life as an architect influenced/ shaped your novels.

19:38:19 From leslie lawrence to Everyone:

                    Question to All:  Michael confessed he reads more slowly these days.  I feel as if I write more slowly.    Sometimes I think/hope that I'm writing better and am a better critic of my work, but my pace is frustrating. So... are people willing to candidly address the question of how our brains are changing and how we manage those changes.

19:39:51 From John Burgess to Everyone:

                    This is Karen Buck Burgess here.  We had such a tumultuous time at Oberlin -- is anyone writing that story?

19:49:55 From Judith Small to Everyone:

                    Question for Linda: I'm intrigued by your background in theatre. How do you think this emerges in your poetic process? Do you read your words aloud?

19:54:25 From mark brumbaugh to Everyone:

                    does anyone have comments on writers from authoritartian countries?

19:55:34 From Jan Weintraub Cobb to Everyone:

                    we are doing the Requiem at Reunion! come and hear or sing!

19:58:38 From Jan Weintraub Cobb to Everyone:

                    Oberlin has a journalism concentration now

20:05:27 From Marty & Heather Oppenheimer to Everyone:

                    Two Florida fiction writers Heather and I like are Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen.  Both were newspaper reporters and say that a considerable number of their ideas come from newspaper stories….they don't need to make stuff up!

20:14:32 From Paul Schoenfeld to Everyone:

                    I agree.  Dorsey and Hiaasen are both hugely entertaining to listen to and read.

20:18:42 From Douglas Brown to Everyone:

                    Do each/any of you experience the writing of deaf authors different, owing to the considerations you are flagging?  Any examples?

20:18:50 From Ruth Spencer to Everyone:

                    To what degree do you think about your audience from the perspective of race, gender, sexuality, politics, ethnicity, etc.  when you are  writing.

20:20:41 From Ruth M. Olmsted to Everyone:

                    I'm struck by the ways music and writing collide. We all went to Oberlin, which means we at least had the opportunity to consume a lot of great music, even if we weren't musicians ourselves. Gayle’s reading from the back technique was something I was taught to use when polishing a piano piece for performance. Too often we practice to the mistake, make it again, and back up, so we're less familiar with the later parts. Certainly there are parallels in people's process of writing!

20:21:30 From Ruth M. Olmsted to Everyone:

                    Oops, sorry, I meant Delia, not Gayle. My eye strayed to the wrong name on my list.

20:27:17 From leslie lawrence to Everyone:

                    I'll make a plug for Jeremy Denk's memoir Every Good Boy… There's truth there too.

20:27:34 From Mark Jethro Twery (he/him) to Everyone:

                    I am halfway through Family Business by SJ Rozan, and just ordered a copy of Lost and Found in Harlem by Delia Pitts!

20:27:57 From Shira Rosan to Everyone:

                    Thanks, Jethro!

20:34:35 From Kristan Knapp to Everyone:

                    Check out Beasts of a Little Land, a first novel by Juhea Kim, a young Korean author, graduate of Princeton, an alumna of the Portland Youth Philharmonic. She credits her music education with helping her structure her novel.

                    What a treat! Thanks, Everyone!