Working With Words
A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor. Please email me at: john.ettorre@gmail.com. "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real." --James Salter
Thursday, August 14, 2008
About Me
- Name: John Ettorre
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
I'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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4 Comments:
Proust! Mon Dieu! He's one of the reasons why I didn't do better with 5 years of French in school! (Of course, I wish I'd taken Spanish, a language you can actually use.)
P.S. The Chesterton quote you ran reminds me of an executive years ago who complained about the negative results of an employee attitude survey: "Employees wouldn't think about how unhappy they are if we didn't keep asking them how they feel."
Interesting reaction to the quote, Mike. That made me laugh. And while I know a reasonable bit of Spanish (when in Italy I resort to about half Italian and half Spanish, or Italish) I sure wouldn't mind knowing French as well (fluently, as long as I get to choose).
For me, Proust is most memorable for my having tried but failed to read his absurdly long and languid opus, "Rememberance of Things Past" back in my early 20s when I had time (or rather made time) for that kind of thing. Better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all, just like with the languages. Anyway, great to see your name back here in the comments, Mike. Since you also worked at JCU for a time, I'm wondering if you ever made it over to the library's Chesterton collection for at least a look.
I was in there a few times, but never sensed the spirit of GK himself. What's interesting about the room is that it was dismantled from the old Severance estate (on the site of the shopping mall) and reconstructed in the JCU library.
Wow, never knew that about the tie to the Severance estate, Mike. That's doubly interesting in light of the fact that a writer friend, Diana Tittle, told me just a couple weeks ago that she's now at work on a book about Severance. Knowing her, it should be eminently worth reading.
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