IWOSC Welcomes & Interviews Owner of New Culver City Bookstore From:
IWOSC Westside Satellite Host Robin Quinn always loved the well-windowed corner commercial space at Duquesne Avenue and Culver Boulevard in downtown Culver City, CA. One day in January 2021 she discovered it had been transformed into a bookstore called Village Well Books & Coffee. Ms. Quinn wanted to meet and greet the owner, and knew other members of the Independent Writers of Southern California would want to do the same. What a treat to have a beautiful new, general-interest bookstore within walking distance, says Ms. Quinn.
Plans to open the store last year were quashed due to the pandemic. As an alternative, Owner and Founder Jennifer Caspar launched its ecommerce site last June
Reserve today for multiple best-selling author Judi Hollis, Ph.D., who will visit the IWOSC Westside Satellite, on March 20, 12:30 Pacific on Zoom. And fasten your seatbelt, as she ll share her insights candidly â gleaned from a writer s journey that has lasted decades.
Los Angeles, CA | March 12, 2021. When you read
From Bagels to Buddha, a memoir by best-selling author Judi Hollis PhD, you may notice essential qualities that help fuel author success â grit, tenacity and egotism. The fun part is that she shares these aspects of herself in the book with humor and self-awareness. Â
What else leads to long-term author success? You ve got to be a tiger mom about your book, she advises, Because nobody cares about it as much as you do.
Must-See Shorts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
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After providing coverage on nearly every feature film premiering at Sundance Film Festival this year, today we turn the spotlight on our favorite shorts. With 50 short films accepted from nearly 10,000 submissions, check out our thoughts on a handful of the premiere below, courtesy of Dan Mecca and Shayna Warner.
BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop (Jason Park)
Heartwarming, clever, and well-paced, filmmaker Jason Park builds a fully-realized, hyper-real Chicago in which BJ (Johnnyboy Tellem) is a hustler on the streets with a traveling bag of problem-solving gifts for his many clients around town. He’s strategic in his timing, catching any and every manner of city-dweller at the moment they need a quick snack, a phone charger, a new shirt-and-tie, or something of the sort. Bookended by a precarious skyscraper interview for a “real’ job, Park captures the spirit of his lead nicely. The entire narrative is lifted by a pitch-perf
January 29, 2021
Jason Park
This is the final installment in a series of articles highlighting new faculty members from each college at Washington State University.
By Todd Mordhorst, Office of the Provost
Highly specialized scientific research can be a lonely pursuit, but Jason Park doesn’t have to go far to find an understanding ear.
He’s a first-year research assistant professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, investigating Anaplasma a pathogen spread by ticks that infects humans and large mammals. Park’s wife Dana Shaw, an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, is studying those same ticks and their immune response to the pathogens they carry, including Anaplasma and Borrelia (Lyme disease bacteria).
January 25, 2021
Highly specialized scientific research can be a lonely pursuit, but Jason Park doesn’t have to go far to find an understanding ear.
Jason Park rows the boat he finished building while under lockdown and unable to work in the lab last spring.
He’s a first-year research assistant professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, investigating Anaplasma – a pathogen spread by ticks that infects humans and large mammals. Park’s wife Dana Shaw, an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, is studying those same ticks and their immune response to the pathogens they carry, including Anaplasma and Borrelia (Lyme disease bacteria).