Select books by Dan Wakefield
"A precise and moving recreation of a time and a place when the world seemed small and we knew everyone in it."
- Joan Didion
"What a wonderful book is Dan Wakefield’s The Story of Your Life. It will help many people to write their own spiritual autobiographies... And I suspect that many readers are going to want to take one of Wakefield’s workshops in writing your spiritual autobiography."
- Madeline L’Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
"Wonderful, sad and funny; a scathing portrait of middle America through the eyes of a new fictional character who will inevitably be compared to Portnoy and Holden Caulfield"
- Gay Talese
Monday, May 13, 2019 Published in Books and Writers
Jim Powell, the longtime IUPUI professor and founder of The Indiana Writers Center, has published a book of short stories with a very fitting title: Only Witness. That is the true calling of the writer - to be a witness to the people and the world around him or her...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Published in Books and Writers
Since I have edited and written introductions to three books of Vonnegut’s works, and I had the pleasure of knowing him for more than forty years, it was assumed I would know all the answers. I didn’t.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Published in Books and Writers
Men didn't conquer Eve Babitz, she conquered them — and wrote about it, in seven published books and assorted articles and stories. Not only did Eve repel unwanted advances, sometimes even an unwelcome opinion could evoke her wrath, which could just as well be a kick in the shins as a withering retort.
Friday, June 7, 2019 Published in Coming Home
Five years ago, a man called me and began with an apology. “I’m sure you get too many of these,” he said. “But I have to call you because I am writing a book on the Emmett Till murder trial, and you are the only one who was at the trial and is still alive.”
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Published in Coming Home
Tuesday, May 21st, 7:15 pm This event is free and open to the public. Kurt’s Karass: Dan Wakefield, a 35 minute short documentary about Kurt Vonnegut Jr, will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the star of the...
Monday, April 15, 2019 Published in Coming Home
At the next “Uncle Dan and Sophie Jam”, we'll explore how songs inspire stories that become novels or memoirs, and learn how music is now being used in therapy with people who have Alzheimers, and with autistic patients.
Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
– Philo of Alexandria
