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Podcast Highlighting American Soft Power

Oct 16, 2025

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in Africa, Books, Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Nonfiction, Peace Corps, Podcast, Profiles in Service

Conversations with diplomats, development workers, PCVs, authors, and entrepreneurs, highlight how American soft power strengthens our global standing.

So Much More than a Sandwich

Aug 3, 2025

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Ben East

in Blogs, Books, Crime, Newsletter, Virginia, Virginia Writers Club, Washington, Writing

Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee Diane Fanning shared her gathered wisdom from publishing 27 books. My favorite: Writing is not a competition. All writers walk in each other’s shoes and know the courage and resilience required to complete the ACT OF WRITING A BOOK.

Sez the Man with No Lips

Feb 8, 2019

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Ben East

in About, Blogs, Book Reviews, Fiction, Foreign Affairs, India, Non-Fiction, Novel, Patchworks, Writing

I have too much to say about this experience, so I’ll just pop it up here. A few days ago I sat down to chat with Matt Whiteside and only recently looked at the results. He’s a sharp guy with a great heart and an ambitious idea: help other writers. He’s fun and funny and…

Tom Wolfe,1930–2018

May 15, 2018

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Ben East

in Writing

Tom Wolfe’s passing takes me back to undergrad years and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I loved Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff, but it was Acid Test—published 50 years ago—that made Tom Wolfe electric. We were studying Ken Kesey under Barry Leeds and there was never enough to go around. Cuckoo’s Nest…

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Podcast Highlighting American Soft Power

So Much More than a Sandwich

Sez the Man with No Lips

Tom Wolfe,1930–2018