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((PKG)) 60 Seconds Narrator
60 Seconds Narrator))
((VOA Russian))
( (Reporter: Anna Nelson))
((Camera: Vladimir Badykov, Dmitry Vershinin))
((Editor: Natalia Ratykhina))
((Adapted to: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: New York City, New York))
((Main character: 1 male))
((Sub-character: 1 female))
((NATS: Dan Harley))
Are you ready?
((Dan Hurley
novelist))
A great many people pass by. they are in a hurry Their heads are lost in their thoughts. I think it's a kind of Zen. It's here now, you know. let's do this let's play.
((NATS: Dan Hurley))
Why?
((Dan Hurley
novelist))
So I was an editor in Chicago
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at the American Bar Association.
I have always been adventurous.
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((Dan Hurley
novelist))
One night on Halloween, I lay in bed I said, "I think I can do this."
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In April of 1983, I took my typewriter out onto the streets of Michigan Avenue.
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And while I'm doing this, I is thinking, "This is a big mistake." I was starting to get so embarrassed and nervous. ((Courtesy End))
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So I sit down. I put a small sign that said "60 Seconds Novel".
"Sir, how's your story? Miss, how's your story?" And everyone is ignoring me. Then an older lady came up and said, 'What are you doing? Let me talk to you.' And I talked to her for a minute.
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((Dan Hurley
novelist))
And I wrote just a few sentences. I take it out of my typewriter and there are about 20 of hers around me. And I read it to her, everyone applauds. And I'm like, "What happened?" And I did that for a few hours and made like $50. And I was like, 'Wow, this is--people like this. What did I invent?
I'm from the New York area. 87} ((Courtesy: Best Documentary))
, write a story." She went to New York and spent two days writing articles and earned about $500.
((Dan Hurley
Novelist))
And I said. So I quit my job. my boss told me This is wrong. ' And I was like, 'Thank you...', 'Thank you, but I'll try.'
I moved to New York and never looked back. Sometimes I think I'm crazy. I mean, I did it. That's why I've been doing it for 38 years.
((NATS))
I wear a yellow sporting his coat, a yellow bow tie and a yellow hat. They said, ``He must be some kind of performer. Some were using typewriters. In 1983, very few people had computers. So having a typewriter was no big deal. In place of this retro typewriter, I'm going to do the old fashioned thing of speaking. Come on, have a conversation and listen.
What I'm doing is interacting with the person, talking to them, trying to get their senses. And write something for them. And they are selected stories that are meaningful to others, too.
Only for that person. So I think it's kind of unique. Some people are lonely. There are definitely people who think they are the first people to have real conversations in years.
We hear a lot about divorce and mental illness. I am completely open with them. I am not judging them. I am there to write their story.
((Dan Hurley
Novelist))
Four years. But soon, I was attending entire parties and events
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where people paid me a lot of money Appear and tell a story. I was able to buy a house like this.
At private parties, large corporate events, birthday parties and more. And it actually looked kind of boring and silly. Like I started feeling, you know, "What am I doing here?"
((Dan Hurley
Novelist))
Yeah, like I really forgot
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Normal Person of. And then I met my wife who is writing a 60 second novel for her wife.
((Alice Garbarini Hurley
Dan's Wife))
He was really handsome and freckled. And he also asked me about their lives and wrote me a really comforting story. } A few months later, when he wrote the story, we were sitting at Rye Playland, near the ocean, near the beach. And we've been on a long journey together. 30 years of marriage.
((Alice Garbarini Hurley
Dan's Wife))
Others said it was strange that he was sitting in the street doing this. noticed. But he's also a writer for The New York Times and Science His. I am proud of him.
((Dan Hurley
novelist))
Not a picture of a person. That's my creative interpretation. Yes, having 50,000 little lives his story is pretty insane. is.
Then he is COVID and it seems like it's been over a year and I want to do it again on the streets
((Dan Hurley
Novelist))
with normal people Ingenious ideas that should have stayed together.
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It's my world when I do it on the street. I invented it.
I personally like the idea that there are people listening and waiting. Why aren't there writers everywhere who are ready to sit on the streets and tell people's life stories.
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