Podcasts about humorist dave barry

Greg Cote Show podcast: Humorist Dave Barry joins us to share his annual Holiday Gift Guide, with gifts sure to delight or horrify such as Play-Doh cologne. Also, we discuss Dolphins-Jets, CFP & more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Cote Show podcast: Humorist Dave Barry joins us to share his annual Holiday Gift Guide, with gifts sure to delight or horrify such as Play-Doh cologne. Also, we discuss Dolphins-Jets, CFP & more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On new Greg Cote Show podcast: Humorist Dave Barry shares his new Holiday Gift Guide, Greg debuts a new Christmas carol, and Greg and Chris discuss the sold-out “Pride Of a Lion” book event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On new Greg Cote Show podcast: Humorist Dave Barry shares his new Holiday Gift Guide, Greg debuts a new Christmas carol, and Greg and Chris discuss the sold-out “Pride Of a Lion” book event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Defo and Lubie talk with Pulitzer Prize winning writer/author Dave Barry about his latest offering, SWAMP STORY. Barry the long-time award winning columnist for the Miami Herald and renowned author has another novel that takes the Florida real stories and makes them fit perfectly into fiction. Defo and Dave go way back so they remembered some of their favorite strange South Florida tales!

Hey, have you subscribed to the bookmark newsletter? A fortnightly email with book reviews and ideas of what you should be reading next. Click here to subscribe.   About the author By some accounts, Roy Peter Clark is America's writing coach, devoted to creating a nation of writers. A PhD in medieval literature, he is widely considered the most influential writing teacher in the rough-and-tumble world of newspaper journalism. With a deep background in traditional media, Clark has illuminated the discussion of writing on the internet. He has gained fame by teaching writing to children and has nurtured Pulitzer Prize-winning authors. He is a teacher who writes and a writer who teaches. For more than three decades, Clark has taught writing at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida, considered among the most prominent such teaching institutions in the world.  Clark has authored or edited nineteen books about writing, reading, language, and journalism. Humorist Dave Barry has said of him: “Roy Peter Clark knows more about writing than anybody I know who is not currently dead.” He plays keyboard in a rock band. He lives with his family in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he has become famously fond of pelicans. Source: https://roypeterclark.com/#about About the book With writers of the digital age in mind, this book looks back on the enduring power of short writing from the beginning of written texts. Looking at both the craft and purposes of short writing — the how and the why — I offer hundreds of examples of the best short writing, from sonnets, proverbs, aphorisms, marginalia, and song lyrics to blog posts, text messages, and tweets. Source: https://roypeterclark.com/books2/#row2   Big idea #1 — Write shortIf you want to write long, begin with writing short. There's a whole section at the start of the book about how writing short is not necessarily a means to an end in itself. It can actually be a means to other types of writing. It includes a quote from The Notebook author, Umberto Eco that says “it's everyday writing that inspires the most committed works, not the other way round”. So even if you have ambitions to write a tome, or really long particular type of text, that doesn't mean that the lessons from this particular type of short writing are irrelevant to you. In fact, a lot of the time it's that type of writing that will lead to longer, more committed work. In the book, Roy talks a lot about keeping a daybook dedicated to short writing and collecting examples of great short writing. Finding clever writing on the back of your shampoo or cereal. He encourages us to practice writing interesting sentences, to play with haiku, play with Tweets, and find little phrases that punctuate a short sentence.  The book is full of these types of practical activities and prompts that you can pick and choose from next time you're writing an article, social media post, email, or a speech. The lessons in this book that are applicable to all sorts of writing, and not just writing that is going to stay as writing, but writing that is going to become speech or another type of communication. Most of these activities are things that you wouldn't necessarily think of doing by yourself, but are the things that are going to stretch your brain to think a little bit cleverly, and more laterally about your writing and the message you're trying to get across. Big idea #2 — Subtract, subtract, subtract. Roy talks about applying a rule of 75%, or trying to deliver your work in three quarters of the expected length.  He asks you to think about how you feel when someone speaks for just 10 minutes, rather than 20 minutes. You are probably incredibly grateful, particularly if you're sat in an uncomfortable conference room in an uncomfortable chair. So he invites you to give that gift to your audience too.  You can surprise, and delight, with brevity. The book itself is a beautiful example of writing short. The chapters are short and it feels like the words in there are all so intentional.  By surprising and delighting with brevity, you can make every word feel like it's meant to be there. There's no flabbiness to it. Roy talks about the difference between two types of writers; The putter-inners; put everything in and revise and take things out. They'll start with 500 words and they're edited back to 300. The taker-outers; take it all out as they're writing and then add back when they think that things need a little bit extra. They might write 200 words, but take it up to 300 words. There should be an editing process, and in the editing process shouldn't happen simultaneous to the writing process. Subtraction is not a case of relentless slash and burn, but we do need to consider what doesn't serve the purpose of the statement, and what needs more space to stand out a little bit more. Professor William Strunk, Jr. is evangelical about ‘omitting needless words'. But we need to be conscious of ‘at what cost'. There comes a point where we take so much out, that we've lost a little bit of meaning or impact. Or as E B White said, ‘will leave you with nothing more to say, but time to fill'. There is a fine balance, and there's no exact rule, but what it should do is encourage you to pause, stop, and think about where does that line of ‘too much / not enough' sits with your copy that you are writing. Big idea #3 — Think like a poet and an advertiser Poetry comes up regularly in the book, and offers a structure for playing with short writing. The patterns of three, the rhyming couplets and specific forms like the limerick or the haiku force an efficient use of words. Similar to poetry, advertisers have mastered the art of the punchiness. Advertisers have been forced into this by minimal space, which comes at a premium and needing to appeal to the simpler parts of our brains, they reduce things into the three word slogan or the tagline. I'm lovin' it The real thing Breakfast of champions You can use this by thinking about your own structure, looking at where you can add a compelling, short, first sentence and then follow it up with a similarly short and second sentence as an invitation to keep on reading. This is another element of the book that I really enjoyed, looking at all these different types of writing. Roy shares examples from the greater orators in history, the ones who have written speeches which have gone down in history the ones where key statements, made up of carefully chosen words, are repeated for generations. Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill. But then at the other end of the spectrum, you've got junky types of advertising slogans. Both memorable, and both using the same concepts, patterns and lessons. Let's connect LinkedIn Instagram   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry hams it up with host Marcia Franklin at the 2014 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. The two talk about Barry’s various misadventures in the Gem State, including tree-climbing, snowmobiling and trout fishing—and what he thinks the new motto for Idaho should be. They also discuss Barry’s partnership with Ridley Pearson on the Peter and the Starcatchers book series. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the Dialogue website for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 11/21/2014 The interview is part of Dialogue’s series “Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference” and was taped at the 2014 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.

Humorist Dave Barry discusses the challenges of parenting a teenage daughter while grappling with his 60s on the Steve Fast Show. #parenting #MiamiHerald

Interview with Jesse - Bartender who works in the Berkshires who shares some great stories from behind the bar.Plus, The Water of Life is a whisky tasting event to benefit charity which will be held in downtown Manhattan on May 6, 2015.  This is the first annual event and its for a great cause.  All the proceeds will be donated to the Life Raft Group which is dedicated finding a cure for a specific type of cancer - GIST.The gentleman who founded this event - Dr. Mattew Lurin is a whiskey aficionado whose stepfather is a GIST patient.The word whiskey comes from the Gaelic phrase for  'water of life' which became the word "whiskey".This is going to be a great event and its for an awesome cause and we encourage you to attend!The format of the tasting will be very unique. It's basically like speed dating with Whisky Ambassadors to find your whisky to love. Each whisky brand will have a table that seats up to 5 guests at a time. They will share drams and stories for 12 minutes. Then, the group will move on individually to their next of many 'whisky dates'...13 in total, with built in breaks for dinner and dessert.Over the course of this event, guests will have the opportunity to try over 25 whiskies, accompanied by food pairings at each table, passed hors d'oeuvres, buffet dinner and desserts.All proceeds raised go to the charity, The Life Raft Group whose simple focus is to cure a form of cancer — Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST). – and to help those living with it.Use the code RAFT1550 to get an additional $50 off the ticket price, which is a charitable donation, (legal disclaimer - double check that with your account please!)You can buy tix at lrgwateroflife.org and get more info on the charity at liferaftgroup.org.Remember to use the discount code RAFT1550.  Next item of business -- a bit of industry news.  The Manhattan Cocktail Classic was canceled!  The event was passed to new management this year, and apparently they just couldn't sort out the details in time, so they just canceled it.  What a shame...it was such an amazing event.  Well, TOTC is coming up!Book of the week its: All About The Guest -- such a great title!  Author Steve Difillippo bought his first restaurant when he was just 23 years old and now owns lots of restaurants up and down the East Coast.  Steve makes some great points in this book, here is a favorite -- Steve says every decision he makes he asks himself, "is this going to make things better for the guest?"  ... an awesome philosophy.He also talks about how you can't let demanding guests distract you from the others --that is, the easy going guests, who are really who you want coming back anyway!  He says you need to make sure you give all your guests the attention they deserve.  This is good to keep in mind while you are behind the bar!Toast of the Week:I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer tocelebrate a major event such as the fall of communismor the fact that the refrigerator is still working.--Humorist Dave Barry

It's sugar and spice and everything Dave Barry when The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds welcomes the humorist to Halli's table for a conversation that we promise you will bring you everything nice. Does Dave Barry really need an introduction? Dave Barry is the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written more than 30 books, including novels and non-fiction, his most recent bestsellers include INSANE CITY and I'LL MATURE WHEN I'm DEAD. Two of Barry's books became the basis for the CBS sitcom Dave's World. Dave Barry is the gift that keeps on giving. The humorist is out with yet another hysterically funny book, a gem that will keep you laughing uproariously: YOU CAN DATE BOYS WHEN YOU'RE FORTY, which he bills as Dave Barry on parenting and other topics he knows very little about. Oh, boy, here we go… Join us for Dave Barry: A Conversation on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Funny Minds. For more information on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show visit http://bit.ly/hcjshow

This Week: Filmmaker Wes Anderson on stoves that witnessed history… Humorist Dave Barry takes aim at your etiquette questions… Real Estate play party DJ… Lit phenom Helen Oyeyemi gazes into the mirror, mirror….And Noah Strycker opens up his bird-brain. Plus: wild camels roaming Texas, the strangest cleanse ever, and Mac DeMarco’s tuneful “Brother.”

Dave Barry: humorist, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist, author and all around funny guy. Join us for Dave's take on everything from escorting his daughter to see a Justin Bieber concert to his wife's roll in the popularity of the book "The Kite Runner." Plus, he dispels some myths surrounding the perceived glamour of writing for a living. He even lets us in on his method of what he calls "writing lies" for his popular books. It's a candid, comedic conversation with one of the most entertaining authors we've ever interviewed.

This Week: Filmmaker Wes Anderson on stoves that witnessed history… Humorist Dave Barry takes aim at your etiquette questions… Real Estate (the band, not the biz sector) play party DJ… Lit phenom Helen Oyeyemi gazes into the mirror, mirror….And Noah Strycker opens up his bird-brain. Plus, Wild camels roaming Texas, the strangest cleanse ever, and Mac DeMarco’s […]

This week: one of our favorite episodes of 2013, in which Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain of “Zero Dark Thirty” riffs on Pitt and pigs… Humorist Dave Barry offers insane advice… Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff plays dinnertime DJ… Joy Division’s Peter Hook tells the bright side of a dark band… We excavate the story of a […]