Djelloul Marbrook

The Center for Emerging Media has posted my call to the elderly to become citizen journalists across the nation. It’s called Let the Elderly Never Sound Retreat, and it lays out a strategy for using the Internet to do a job the news industry is less and less committed to doing. Marc Steiner, director of the center, will host a panel discussion September 27th on Ageless Creativity: The Writing Life Later in Life at the Baltimore Book Fair. Participants will be Kendra Kopelke, University of Baltimore and co-editor of Passager Books, Dudley Clendinen, author A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America, and Mel Tansill, Senior Director of Corporate Public Affairs, Erickson Retirement Communities, and myself. I’m there by virtue of being 74 years old and having written Far From Algiers.