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This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. Format: Paperback Author: Saul Schachter ISBN10: 1732692734 ISBN13: 9781732692732 INTRODUCTION: When I was growing up I wanted to be a journalist I published newspapers for my grade school classmates and received a prestigious journalism award in high school . But I also enjoyed working with children and wanted to be a teacher. I was hired to teach at my Long Island New York alma mater North Shore High School I later moved to the Middle School . But I never gave up my love of writing. I wrote my first story about returning to North Shore to substitute teach and sent it out to newspapers and magazines. Twelve rejection letters later I decided to try The New York Times. Why not? I thought. If they turned me down I could frame a rejection letter from the worlds greatest newspaper. But they threw me off-balance by accepting it! My first published essay–in The New York Times! From there I went on to write other essays for the Times plus the Boston Globe The Chicago Tribune The Philadelphia Inquirer The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Miami Herald Newsday The Denver Post The New York Post The Christian Science Monitor The Toronto Globe Mail Family Circle and Newsweek. In 1980 The Washington Post began a travel section and I began submitting manuscripts. Instead of writing about the canals of Venice or the fjords of Norway mine were humor essays such as The Joys of Jet Lag the chores I happily do at 4 a.m. when I cant sleep and the title piece Why Does My Social Life Pick Up When I Leave the Country? I retired from teaching in 2014 but I am still writing mostly for Newsday where I have had 60 published essays. Overall 138 pieces have appeared in newspapers and magazines and occasionally Ive appeared in a new outlet: on-line. And now Ive gathered these essays for this book. Not all of them are appearing here but my favorites are. I hope you enjoy them!
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