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of 1983, Greenwald was awarded a journalism fellowship by the Rotary
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to critical acclaim, is an improvised monologue. Each performance's stories and arc is determined by an audience volunteer's spin of an on-stage "wheel of fortune". A more recent show, "108 Beloved
Objects," based on Greenwald's 2021 book of the same name, premiered in San Leandro in September 2022
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in 1990. A later edition, published in the Lonely Planet "Journeys" series, won the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Best Travel Book of 1996. A 25th
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