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Niles North High School: The Start of it all!

From the Winter/Spring 2011 Illinois High School District 219 Alumni Magazine:

 

Once in a decade, Barbara (Shyette) Barnett (N’72) gets hooked on a television show, to the point of obsession.  And while most audience members would be content to simply sit back on the couch and passively soak it in, Barnett is the type to jump online and start a personal blog about her obsession.

Her personal commentaries, and in-depth critical analyses about the show “House, M.D.” garnered a large readership which she eventually parlayed into a weekly column at blogcritics.com (where she now has co-executive editor duties). After each episode of the show, “House” viewers eagerly read her column “Welcome to the End of The Thought Process: House, M.D.” where Barnett dissects the episode, often with the assistance of “House” writers and executive producers, for a behind-the-scenes look that is full of insight and understanding into the sometimes mystifying actions of the show’s central character, Dr. Gregory House. Continue Reading →

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New Interview at Cafe of Dreams

Interview: Barbara Barnett, Author of Chasing Zebras

An excerpt…

If you could meet, in person, any of your characters, who would it be and why?
They aren’t my characters, since I’m not a writer on the show, but I would probably enjoy meeting Dr. House himself. I’d be completely intimidated by him, and would probably choose to talk music and books with him rather than medicine, where I’d be on sturdier ground.

If you could fictionalize yourself and put yourself in any situation, how would it play out? Could you give us a scene/scenario of such an occurrence?

When I write fiction, my protagonists (who in one way or another always reflect me) seem to always be fighting the system: hypocrisy, corruption and just plain apathy. Fictionalized, I see myself as smart and resourceful with a keen sense of justice but little respect for bureaucracy or hypocrisy. My fictional attempts seem to always be set in some sort of Kafka-esque dystopia sometime in a dire near future.
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Interview: One on One with New House, M.D. Writer Katherine Lingenfelter

Katherine Lingenfelter is the newest writer on the hit series House, M.D.. In this exclusive interview, she talks about the series and its relationships.
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