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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO INTERVIEW SOURCES FOR NON-FICTION WRITING
(and How to Tell When They are Lying)
with Charles R. Cross

  Molly Wizenberg

One of the most important skills for any writer to learn is how to properly interview sources. Often, aspiring writers put excessive amounts of energy into crafting prose, ignoring the quality of the source material used to create their thesis. For a biography, interviews are usually the foundation upon which a book is built, but they are also vital to journalism, memoir, script writing, and historical fiction. For Charles R. Cross’s 2005 book, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, he interviewed 325 people—and a dozen of them were liars who could have scuttled the book, and history, without proper interviewing truth-seeking techniques. In this one-night workshop, Cross will address some of the basics of interviewing techniques, but he also will discuss how to determine the validity of subjects—an increasingly important aspect to writing in an era of fabrication and scandal.

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More about Charles Cross and his publications, check out www.charlesrcross.com

WHAT THE FANS ARE SAYING!

"Somehow, fitting in an incredible amount of information and insight into a two-hour workshop, Roderick gave us a refreshingly unpretentious glimpse into the world of a professional songwriter who also knows how to not take himself too seriously."
- Greg Franklin, The Pitch

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John Roderick - Photo by Laura Musselman, Lauratakespictures.com

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"It was great night. Forney gave a wonderful workshop, particularly because she approached making comics from the perspective of writing...Forney was personable, informative, funny, and cool, and the crowd of a dozen or more lapped it up as she walked us through her process on a few different works." - WalakaNet2.0

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Peter Pereira amazed me. He gives a great workshop. He would make an excellent regular fixture as workshop leader at 826.
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