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Writer David Blistein spent 25 years as the Owner and Creative Director of a regional ad agency, after which he began writing non-fiction books and documentaries. He was a writer on the PBS documentaries Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene. He also wrote the award-winning The Mayo Clinic, which was produced by Ewers Bros ...
From Christopher Irion’s innovative project “Portrait/Self Portrait”. You write and record a three-minute piece about yourself. He films you listening to the playback. My latest writing is now on Substack. Books. Waking the Dead. Films. Writing Asides. Scribbles.
Books | David Blistein. Opium: How an Ancient Flower. Shaped and Poisoned our World. Buy at Your Local Bookstore or Click Here. People have been using opium as a painkiller, abusing it as a drug, and transforming it into a weapon of war and commerce for thousands of years.
Goodreads Author. Born. in Providence, RI, The United States. June 15, 1952. Website. http://www.davidblistein.com. Twitter. davidblistein. Genre. Psychology, History, Memoir. Influences. Dante, Robert Stone, Raymond Chandler, Erich Maria Remarque, Bob Dylan. ...more. Member Since. February 2012. edit data.
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Combining intensely personal reminiscences of a two-year nervous breakdown with contemporary insights on how manic-depression manifests and how it is diagnosed and treated; David Blistein shares his experiences to shed light on the darkness of depression for fellow travelers as well as those who care about them.
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Home » Authors » David Blistein. DAVID BLISTEIN is a novelist, essayist, and former advertising agency executive whose writing is the culmination of a lifelong pursuit of wisdom, transcendence, and humor.
For the last fifty years I’ve been able to make a living as a writer. Most of those years I spent working and then owning a small regional ad agency and, more recently, I’ve been primarily writing documentary scripts as well as recording the Waking the Dead podcast featuring stories I’ve been working on for the last twenty years.
