Presented by the Povich Journalism Program
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Creative writing teacher and Real Arts Director Anthony DeCurtis introduced STEVE VOLK to the Writers House as part of the RealArts@Penn program. RealArts@Penn invites interesting and prominent authors to speak, but also provides internships for students in varied arts and media fields. DeCurtis described a twenty six year friendship that he and Volk share. As a staff writer for Philadelphia Magazine, Steve Volk has been built a solid reputation as an investigative reporter. He has also been published in the Philadelphia Weekly, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal and Vibe magazines. Volk's book, Fringology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable and Couldn't explores issues of the paranormal. Volk described how three editors each told him not to write this type of book, as there is a heavy stigma surrounding those who take the paranormal as something worthy of serious exploration. Volk explains how common experiences with ghosts, psychic feelings, and UFOs are, even taking a poll of our audience to see how many have been witness to this type of phenomena, and therefore describes the need to remove the stigma. Volk shared his own past with a haunting in his home, and talked about the fun of the ghost hunting he did as research for this book. As DeCurtis said in his introduction, if there is anyone best suited to explore the paranormal and give everything its due, it is Steve Volk.
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