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Rosy Cole

Pax Aeterna

        They are getting closer. I hear them, wave upon wave, mounted upon terrified steeds, poor abused beasts who have no Francis to calm...
Steven Travers

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TROJAN:...

The SIXTIES   BILL REDELL 1960 (Freshman Team) Quarterback   I was very fortunate to go to USC when I did go there....
Eve Kushner

Special Delivery: Part 3

I’ve discovered two new ways of offending the Japanese: 渡し箸 (watashibashi: resting one’s chopsticks across the top of one’s bowl)     to cross over +...
Claire Elizabeth Terry

Why Literature?...

For this week's Red Room blog on 'peace', I'd like to once again share a contribution from 'The Art of Living'*, this time by Mario...
David Moolten

Celebrity

 Marilyn Monroe rules the world, at least The part visible in a photograph, standing Above the troops she’s about to bless With a...
Angela Nickerson

Scala Contarini del Bovolo

Medieval and Renaissance Venetians often built exterior staircases on their homes to save precious living space.  But the architects of the Scala Contarini...
J. Ruth Gendler

Peace in Three Parts: Two Children's and...

Peace in Three Parts   Part I:  A Third grader Personifies Peace Peace is a child, small, invisible, yet powerless over Anger and...
Dale Estey

BREAD AND CIRCUSES

I luv bread - circuses not so much. I got to partake of a circus the other day. A national circus which is...
Kristina Riggle

New book deal: not a rookie anymore

I'm so happy to announce a new book deal! I'm thrilled and grateful and yes, proud. It's a two-book deal, which means Books...
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  • Erika Mailman
    Erika Mailman Influences: Someone once said all authors are reinventing the books they read when they were in fifth grade. For me, that's true to a large extent. I was a voracious bookworm...
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Weekly Blog Topic: My Favorite Cities

The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler. The Paris of Ernest Hemingway. The Berlin of Christopher Isherwood. The San Francisco of Dashiell Hammett or...
Ivory Madison

Democrats Eat Babies on Christmas, Institute Says

[This story originally ran in a major news outlet that shall remain nameless. Okay, I made it up in response to a story...

Overheard In the Red Room

"I need (books) the way arteries need blood, the way teenagers need Twitter, the way the BBC needs Helen Mirren."

-- Kyla Perry