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Apr.20.2010
On Sunday, April 18th, Red Room CEO Ivory Madison and I had the pleasure of attending the Northern California Book Awards here in San Francisco. Among the several Red Room authors that were nominated or won prizes, we were especially thrilled for first-time novelist Nina LaCour, whose book Hold...
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Mar.22.2010
In honor of spring's arrival in the Northern Hemisphere, Red Room asked its members to blog last week about spring. As happened with our winter blog topic, the changing of the season brought out the lyrical in our bloggers. Many more poems were posted, and even the prose entries were bursting with...
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Mar.16.2010
This week, Red Room asked its members to post their most embarrassing photo from adolescence. We got some great ones, and even the bloggers who didn't have a photo from that era to share told some great stories about when they had an embarrassing moment that should have been caught on film.
Three...
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Mar.08.2010
Last week, we asked Red Roomers to blog about neighbors. There were a lot of wonderful posts this week; clearly, love them, hate them, or wish you'd just learned their name, proximity creates the spark to tell a story. Here are some posts we loved:
Barbara Ray's post is a hilarious portrait of how...
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Mar.05.2010
(With some trepidation, I approached this piece. I didn't want to hear lectures from the all-knowing outside world about racism or altruism. Political correctness sets my teeth on edge. Why? Because I believe most of us possess "isms" in one form of the other but love to seem otherwise....
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Feb.19.2010
This week, we asked Red Room to blog about the Worst Typo Ever. Right off, it was clear that teachers were going to write about the typos their students submitted. What a relief to discover that the late-night papers over which we ourselves agonized gave our English teachers such glee. In fact,...
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Feb.14.2010
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." –Napoléon Bonaparte
Freedom can be defined positively, being able to act according to one’s will. It can also be defined negatively, as an absence of what might be important constraint. How do feel about...
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Feb.06.2010
"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
This cheerful advice doesn't come from anti-despair authors like Eckhart Tolle, Wally Amos, or Thich Nhat Hanh. It comes from Franz Kafka, an author whose writing is most known for themes of alienation and persecution, but...
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Jan.28.2010
Here's a list of the blog topics of the week that Red Room's authors and members have already tackled. I hope you'll suggest others in the comments, or email your suggestions to me. I can't promise that we'll use all of them, but we will consider each one. Thanks so much for your great ideas, and...
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Jan.28.2010
"I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing." -William Faulkner
Whether or not he was a failed poet and short-...
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