Joseph Di Prisco

MEDIA APPEARANCE:
• Readings in Austin, Berkeley, and New York City fundraising for Dean Young
• Our Children, National PTA Magazine
• Finance, San Francisco Chronicle
• Books of Our Times, Massachusetts School of Law Television
• Sunday Chronicle Magazine
• Family Talk with Doctor Mike, Icicle Network
• Susan Page, USA Today, Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, NPR
• Chicago Tribune, Susan Trestrail, Sunday Family Feature
• Susan Wiencek, Windy City Weekly Radio, WNND-FM, Chicago
• Parents Magazine
• Parents Perspective, Sandra Burt and Linda Perlis, International radio syndication
• USA Weekend, Drew Pinsky
• Booklist
• The Exchange, News 12, Connecticut
• Working Assets, NPR
• Boston Globe, Barbara Meltz, "Children Need to Know Cheating is Wrong"
• United Parenting Publications, Judy Molland, national syndication
• Parent to Parent, United Parenting Publication, Betsy Flagler, "Buying Off Kids," national syndication
• KCET-TV, Life and Times, Los Angeles
• WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, Tim Russell and Patty Peterson Show
• WBZ-AM, Boston, Parents' Report
• WGY-AM, Albany, NY
• USA RADIO NETWORK, Daybreak USA
• WKDR-AM/WDEV-AM/FM, Burlington, VT
• Richmond Times Dispatch
• Buffalo News
• WFAN-AM, New York
• WHO-AM, Des Moines, IA
• WBSM-AM, Providence, RI
• WKY-AM, Morning Business Report, Philadelphia
• WZLX-FM, Common Ground, Boston
• WHAT-AM, Phladelphia
• Cable Radio Network
• NPR—West Coast Live with Sedge Thomson
• Daybreak USA, USA Radio Network
• KGO Radio, San Francisco, Ronn Owens
• WMAL-AM, Washington DC, Charlie Warren Show
• KBHK TV, San Francisco, Susan Sakora Show
• Diane Rehm, National Public Radio
• HealthA toZ.com
• Diane Jordan Book Page, KXL, Portland, Oregon
• KOMO-TV, Seattle
• Windy City Weekly, Chicago
• New England Cable News Network
• WGN, Steve Cochran Show, Chicago
• Smokey Bacon TV Show, Boston
• Exchange TV, Connecticut
• Parent to Parent, Betsy Flagler (syndication)
• Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Time Magazine, Eugenie Allan
• Cincinnati Enquirer
• KFGO, Fargo, North Dakota
• WGY, Albany, New York
• KMTT, Seattle
• Wisdom Radio Network
• KVEL, Salt Lake City
• WXXI, Rochester, New York
• KCBS, Burlington, Iowa
• Family News and Focus, Peter Winn
• San Francisco Chronicle
• WWSW, Pittsburgh
• KFRU, Columbia, Missouri
• WCCO, Minneapolis
• KSOR Jefferson Public Radio, Oregon
• KPFA, Berkeley
• KVON, Napa, California
• Working Mother Magazine
• Washington Post
• San Francisco Chronicle, Joan Ryan
• Oakland Tribune
• San Mateo Times
• Alameda Times Star
• Portland Oregonian
• The News-Times
• The Detroit Free Press
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Detroit News
• Florida Times-Union
• Childsbookclub.com
• WKSU, Akron, Ohio
• The Baltimore Sun, Sunday feature
• The Baltimore Sun, Susan Reimer
• WABC, Phil Shuman Show
• The Boston Globe
• Greensboro News & Record
• Colorado Springs Gazette
• Newsday
• Courier-Express, Du Bois, PA
• East Bay Express
• Akron Beacon Journal
• Orlando Sentinel
• Boston Globe, Barbara Meltz

PRESENTATIONS:Books Inc, San Francisco

• Diesel Books, Oakland
• Diesel Books, Brentwood, CA
• Sacramento Public Library
• The Half King, New York City
• Stories Books, LALitquakeWord Bookstore, Brooklyn
• The Battery Club, San Franciso
• Great Good Place for Books
• Lafayette (CA) Library, Writers on Writing • Hillsborough, California, Reads All for Now

• A Literary Feast at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center
• The Booksmith in San Francisco
• The Ann Martin Center
• California Association of Independent Schools
• The Athenian School
• "Flourishing Through Conflict," Keynote Speaker, Marin County
• San Francisco B.A.Y. Fund
• Francis Parker School, Chicago
• Collegiate School, New York
• Lincoln School, Brookline, MA
• Cody's on 4th, Parenting Series, Berkeley
• Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
• Archer School, Los Angeles
• Black Pine Circle, Berkeley
• Ross School, Ross, CA
• Poetry Readings, Syracuse University
• On Poetry and Religion, talk at the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Seattle
• Poetry Readings, U.C. Berkeley
• Poetry Reading, Bread Loaf
• Poetry Readings, Cody's Bookstore
• Poetry Reading, U.H.S.
• "On Teaching Creative Writing," speaker with Martin Cruz Smith, California Association
of Independent Schools (CAIS)
• Presenter, Seminar Leader, The Curriculum Wars, UHS Alumni Council
• "Head Fakes in Ho Chi Minh City," talk on contemporary Vietnam, the war, and
the continuing place of Vietnam in the American imagination; sponsored by Culpepper
• Foundation, San Francisco
• Commencement Speaker, elected by graduating class of U.H.S.
• "Teaching Shakespeare," speaker, CAIS Regional Conference
• "Teaching Vietnam," speaker and conference coordinator, CAIS Regional
• Conference
• Commencement Speaker, elected by graduating class of U.H.S.
• Keynote Speaker, on Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration between High Schools and the
• University of California; Plenary Conference of Crossing Boundaries, Planning Committee of
• Bay Area Secondary Schools in Collaboration with U.C. Berkeley, The College Preparatory School
• Speaker, Discussion Leader, Deans Retreat, Deans of • Students of Bay Area Independent
• Schools, on Teaching, Learning, Parenting
• The Young Presidents' Organization, San Francisco
• Parents' Coalition of Bay Area High Schools, San Francisco
• Cody's Books, Berkeley
• Borders, Pleasanton, California
• Caitlin Gable School, Portland, Oregon
• Borders, Portland, Oregon
• Borders, Geneva, Illinois
• Nathan Hale High School, Seattle, Washington
• Borders, North Attleborough, MA
• Borders, Danbury, CT
• Borders, Sterling, Virginia
• Poetry Reading, Chico State University
• Featured Poet, Marin Academy Literary Festival
• San Francisco Town and Country Club
• Stacey's Books, San Francisco

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READINGS:
Video of Di Prisco reading at a Zyzzyva event at The Booksmith in San Francisco.
If you have eleven minutes to spare in your life, this video is from a recent reading he did for Zyzzyva. (Warning: He looks like an old Muppet.)