AUTHOR: Sarah Cove TITLE: Liberals as storytellers DATE: 3/27/2006 09:09:00 PM ----- BODY:

All of these conversations I have been having avec moi have led me back to us as liberals living in a world of stories, dominant and marginal. Right now, the liberal story is weak. It doesn't seem to be marginal or emerging in this country, but dying. We need to become good and powerful storytellers and understand the tools available to us for this and practices we need to build to become the Tolstoys and Spielbergs of the 21st century. And not only do we need to become good storytellers. But we need good stories. Where would Bill Cosby be without his Fat Albert skit or FDR without the "New Deal." Any writers out there (ahem...Jennie?) that know how to write good stories?

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