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March 16 - 21: Dan will be a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Loyola University of New Orleans, speaking to classes and showing the documentary film "New York in the Fifties," based on the memoir of the same name.

May 2 - 9: Dan will give a talk on "The Power of Place," and workshops on "Stories of Our Lives," at Rancho La Puerta health spa, Tecate, Mexico.

June 21 - 25: Dan will present "Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography" workshop, at Pendle Hill Conference Center, Pendle Hill, Pennsylvania.

August 1 - 9: Dan will give a talk on "The Power of Place," and participate in a roundtable discussion on writing with novelist and screenwriter April Smith, and novelist Anthony Gagliano; as well as present workshops on "Stories of Our Lives," during Writer's Week at Rancho La Puerta health spa, Tecate, Mexico.

September 26 - October 2: "Releasing the Creative Spirit Through Yoga, Meditation, and Writing," taught by Michele Hebert, Mehrad Nazari, and Dan Wakefield, at The Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California.

The Boston Globe recently published an article by Dan on Richard Yates titled, "A writer revived".

"Friedman's guys, still lonely, still funny" a book review by Dan of "THREE BALCONIES: Stories and a Novella" by Bruce Jay Friedman was published by The Boston Globe on January 9, 2009.

"And so it went" a book review by Dan of "Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace" By Kurt Vonnegut was also published by The Boston Globe.

Dan's most recent book, "The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate," is available in paperback!.

Now Online: "Open-hearted in fiction and friendship", an essay by Dan about Kurt Vonnegut in the Boston Globe newspaper, Sunday, April 29th.

An interview with Dan is available on the pifmagazine.com web site.

Releasing the Creative Spirit

"Full of examples of sanity, balance, and even full-time employment cohabitating happily with creative callings."
- Utne Reader

How Do We Know When It's God?

"This is the kind of spiritual writing I treasure - grounded, generously human."
- Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

Spiritually Incorrect, Finding God in All the Wrong Places

Spirituality is full of rules. You need to find your own way straight through them.

Returning

"One of the most important memoirs of the spirit I have ever read."
- Bill Moyers

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