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Josh Dayton is 18 years old. Through his poetry, his personal beliefs, and the creation of a fantasy card game, Josh faces and overcomes the challenges in his world.
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Piece Description
Josh Dayton is 18 years old. Through his poetry, his personal beliefs, and the creation of a fantasy card game, Josh faces and overcomes the challenges in his world.
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Review of JoshThis piece profiles Josh, a Maine teenage poet with a unique and fascinating fantasy card game. The narrator's descriptions are interesting but I wanted to hear more of Josh's life as well. I would have loved to hear more of his mother and his house and school. The segment where Josh lists his goals is powerful and the best window we get into who he is. If that part came earlier we could get more engaged in who he is earlier. Overall personal and engaging. |
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Review of JoshI adored this piece. Everything about it. It is compelling, touching and makes me want to write Josh and the interviewer both letters thanking them. The content is moving, the story is unique, and I gave it my attention the whole way through. If I had any critique, it would be that the interviewers voice sometimes fades, and the overlap of Josh talking once, and only once, seemed to overlap too much and the last bit of music at the end ends abruptly and was a little distracting.
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Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on January 30, 2005 at 02:20 PM | Permalink
Review of Josh
It is so interesting to see someone do a profile of a random person…I mean, not a national figure, a celebrity, or someone with some kind of claim to fame… just someone that clearly fascinates the producer. There’s something very pure and inspiring about that. The piece is a kind of exploration of that fascination. She does not attempt to label or diagnose her subject; she merely describes him and explains how he sees the world is such an interesting and unusual way. She sees the beauty in his odd quest to create card games with titles like “Super Nova Dragons” and, by proxy, so do we.