{"id":1349,"date":"2015-08-11T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2017-07-01T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T12:52:28","slug":"11-speakers-11-reasons-to-come-to-the-power-of-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/11-speakers-11-reasons-to-come-to-the-power-of-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"14 speakers, 14 reasons to come to The Power of Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Leslie Jamison<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If anyone\u2019s writing has the ability to make you a better person, it\u2019s hers. This is what The New York Times<\/a> wrote about The Empathy Exams: \u201cI\u2019m not sure I\u2019m capable of recommending a book because it might make you a better person. But watching the philosopher in Ms. Jamison grapple with empathy is a heart-expanding exercise\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    1. John Freeman<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      He interviewed ALL of your favourite writers<\/a> and published the interviews in his bestselling collection How To Read a Novelist. You\u2019ll find everyone from Doris Lessing, to Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace and about 50 others in that book. He\u2019s launching his new fiction magazine, Freeman\u2019s, this fall.<\/p>\n

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      Proofs are in, out in October!<\/a><\/p>\n

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