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diana-pharaoh-francis's picture
Sep.14.2008
i finished a chapter last night and wrote about 2K yesterday, which was pretty good given the fact that there were four flag football games for the...
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steve-hauk's picture
Sep.14.2008
John and Mary pass the cottage often. It stands _ or rather, slouches, for it is in serious disrepair _ on an overgrown wooded lot in a picturesque...
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gary-g-gach's picture
Sep.14.2008
may all your seeds of positivity be nourished and may all your weeds work as mulch        Moonlight in Huai-yang The moonlight in Huai-yang...
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anne-brooke's picture
Sep.14.2008
A lazy start to the day today, and a welcome brunch of scrambled eggs, mushroom and chicken - as made (just about acceptably - cooking not being one...
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rosemary-jones's picture
Sep.14.2008
I am convinced that everyone has at least one book in their head.  This comes from that usual conversation which begins "what do you do?" ...
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craig-mcdonald's picture
Sep.14.2008
You can make a good case for Ernest Hemingway having left a profound mark on hardboiled crime fiction. Graduate students and crime fiction...
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scott-c-holstad's picture
Sep.14.2008
What defunct magazine(s) to you miss the most?  One or two?  Possibly more?  But the most??? Even though my work has appeared in quite a few literary...
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cliff-burns's picture
Sep.14.2008
According to an article on the CBC news site and the Los Angeles Times, the body of author David Foster Wallace was discovered by his wife in the...
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jacquelyn-mitchard's picture
Sep.14.2008
 Silly man Paul Krugman writes on the Times' Op-Ed page that the recent scattershot of claims from the McCain-Palin campaign have one thing in common...
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gerard-jones's picture
Sep.13.2008
I think you might like the new episode of My Pal Splendid Man (uploaded here). This is that series of satirical stories I'm cowriting with Will...
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c-sharma's picture
Nov.15.2008
My religion perpetually flows, It never loses its sheen & glow; My religion never binds, It always opens up the mind.   Love lesson is at its...
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ac-cantuba's picture
Nov.15.2008
I used to dream when I was a kid. A lot. I dreamed about being famous. Of being a matinee idol or something. At some point in my life I even dreamed...
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brad-green's picture
Nov.14.2008
The call came in as soon as I'd arrived at work.  "She's fallen." my mother said in a rush.  "We're at the hospital in Madill.  Her...
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amanda-baker's picture
Nov.14.2008
I have attempted my fist novel ever, and, because I do things the hard way, I've chosen to write it in thirty days through the NaNoWriMo project. I...
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former member's picture
Nov.14.2008
by former member
Nabokov and the Moment of Truth. He talks about metaphors of time, great books, and reads the first line of Lolita.
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donna-frenkel's picture
Nov.14.2008
Today is November 17.  The 1st seems like it was just a minute ago and the 31st is flying up to hit me. It is too near, way too near. On October 31,...
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former member's picture
Nov.14.2008
by former member
I’m still going to go to the Funky Door. Just not yet. I elected to head off to Bikram in El Cerrito rather than the Funky Door for the first time on...
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miguel-bryant's picture
Nov.14.2008
It is currently more than a week past one of the most historic times in human history. Very few people in civilizations past or yet to come have had...
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andrew-coates's picture
Nov.14.2008
'God opened the door' - 'Oh.... God closed the door' Are we, has human beings, in control of our own choices and of the direction we steer our lives...
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former member's picture
Nov.14.2008
by former member
"Please don't bring your teenager to Nebraska," Gov. Dave Heineman told CNN. "Think of what you are saying. You are saying you no...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.