Update from Janine: My editor was not happy when I suggested brown bags for writers. Then we had one, where I got to talk about things I learned at the workshop. Everyone participated, asked great questions, had a great time … and he approved of everything everyone said. Now he wants to have them once [...]

Janine Anderson: “I think this workshop could be, for writers who love story, exactly what the Eddie Adams Workshop is for photographers. My husband went through in 2002 — and I’m going home with stories very much like the ones he told me seven years ago.”

Pete Hamill, tonight, in Jeffersonville, via Janine Anderson’s Facebook status: “It’s not an accounting job, being a newspaperman or woman. It’s about the human race.”

At our table: Vac, Pete, Lee, Barbara, me and Janine. Janine, who incidentally double-majored at the University of Wisconsin in journalism and dance, got to talking about the story she’s working on here this weekend.
This is what she wrote in her workshop proposal:
For the past three years I have had a growing stack of papers [...]

Janine Anderson:
Charles Powell Jr., call Steve Frazier.
He wants you to pick up a phone and dial (262) 989-8585.
He wants to help you.

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]