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Announcing: 40 Years of Peace Corps Writers: The Tour
A Letter from . . .
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Kathleen Coskran (Ethiopia 1965–67) wrote A letter from Ethiopia to her mother telling of one of the worst tragedies to befall a PCV.
A Writer Writes
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Poet Sheila Crofut (Czech Republic 1994 – 96) presents “Where Is My Country?”
Literary Type
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Literary Type has news of writers, books, the Peace Corps and more.
Talking with . . .
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Editor John Coyne interviewed Moscow resident, travel writer and political commentator Jeffrey Tayler (Morocco 1988–90).
Recent books by Peace Corps writers
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Travel and Latin American politics are among the subjects for this issue’s the fifteen new books.
Travel Right
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Mike Tidwell (Zaire 1985–87) explores a holiday without materialism in “Christmas Miracle in the Andes.”
Reviews
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The Autobiography of Maria Elena Moyano: The Life and Death of a Peruvian Activist, edited and annotated by Diana Milosavich Tupac, translated (with a prologue and afterword) by Patricia S. Taylor Edmisten (Peru 1962–64) reviewed by Mark Brazaitis (Guatemala 1991–93)
The Cartographer's Tongue by Susan Rich (Niger 1984–86) reviewed by Keith Cartwright (Senegal 1983–85)
Father Sun — Mother Moon: Stories of Pluricultural Grassroots Development by Charles David Kleymeyer (Peru 1966–68) reviewed by Ted O. Hall (Peru 1966-68)
First Silence by Edgar Henry Kock (Philippines 1996–98), illustrations by Bernardo Quizon Hermoso reviewed by Tony Zurlo, (Nigeria, 1965–66)
Steal My Heart by Mark Brazaitis (Guatemala 1990–1993) review by Joan Richter (Staff spouse: Kenya 1965–67)
Turkey by Tom Brosnahan (Turkey 1967–70) and Pat Yale reviewed by Hayward Allen (Ethiopia 1962–64)
A Closer Look
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Editor John Coyne tells the story of a worst-case-scenario — “The Spy Who Was a PCV.”
To Preserve and to Learn: Occasional Essays about the History of the Peace Corps
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Could you survive the “Outward Bound” training experience of Steve Wells (Philippines 1961–64)?
Which Peace Corps book begins . . . ?
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The opening qoute in this book relates a different training experience.
New items in Resources
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Links to sites for writers
Opportunities for writers — two new listings
Publishing alternatives — three new listings
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