My guest today is Professor Lewis B. Frumkes, author, writer, humorist and teacher and our subject is “The Future of Publishing and the Writer’s Conference”

Lewis Burke Frumkes is the author of seven books including "How To Raise Your I.Q. By Eating Gifted Children," "Manhattan Cocktail," and "Metapunctuation," and host of his own radio show on WPAT in New York. He teaches Critical Thinking at Marymount Manhattan College and is Director of its Writing Center which he created in 1994 and developed into a literary showcase for the college. Among the Center's premiere offerings is the Best-Selling-Author Series which occurs each spring and features leading authors such as Tom Wolfe, William Styron, Erica Jong, Wally Lamb, Mary Higgins Clark, talking about the writing life. The Center also runs fifteen courses in creative writing and journalism taught by professional writers and editors and listed through the continuing ed department. In summer it puts on a writer's conference focusing on fiction as well as non-fiction that has been called one of the finest small conferences in the land. Frumkes has taught writing as a visiting professor at Harvard University and currently serves on the programs committee of the Harvard Club in New York. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Writer Magazine, the country's oldest writing magazine. His humorous essays have been collected in dozens of journals, and anthologies and he has written for most major magazines. Highly sought after as a speaker Frumkes has delivered talks at The Yale Club, The Harvard Club, Sarah Lawrence College, The English Speaking Union, The Colony Club and numerous other venues, and he frequently appears as a guest on radio and television. Information about the Writer's Conference at Marymount Manhattan College, which will beled on June 3rd, can be found at www.mmm.edu.

                                                 

                                             Lewis Frumkes                                  Richard J. Garfunkel at WVOX

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