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lisa-alcalay-klug's picture
Aug.04.2008
Today Cool Jew is "bar mitzvah!" Today on Amazon's bestseller list: No. 13 in Religion/Humor. Mazal tov all around!!!    
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melanie-lynne-hauser's picture
Aug.04.2008
Why would an author ever give away a book?  A whole book, that took months, maybe years, to write?  It's a big question today, as publishers and...
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jewelle-gomez's picture
Aug.04.2008
July is usually a continuation of film festival season for me...the Frameline LGBT festival finishes off June, then the Jewish Film Festival kicks in...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Aug.04.2008
I'm back at the office now, at the university, feeling the temptation to let the creative work slip away in favor of memos and busy work.   But then...
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jeffrey-j-mariotte's picture
Aug.04.2008
I have now lived the dream of being a TV talking head for a day. Okay, I don't know how many people actually dream of it.  But here's a hint--don't...
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june-casagrande's picture
Aug.04.2008
I’ve come across variations of this twice in the last week: “Working together, they honed in on the problem.” It’s “homed in.” The verb “hone”...
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catherine-lundoff's picture
Aug.04.2008
"Crave" won a 2008 Golden Crown Literary Award (Erotica Category) on August 2nd. :-)  The Goldies are awards given by the Golden Crown...
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frances-l-dinkelspiel's picture
Aug.04.2008
There were a shocking number of women – and men – in red silk corsets at Sunday night’s Litquake fundraiser. The theme was “Dirty Words: An Evening...
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phyllis-zimbler-miller's picture
Aug.04.2008
I asked Nancy Sutherland, sales director of Mary Kay, to write a guest post describing an important project that she is promoting. (She has her own...
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.04.2008
Rather a rough night last night, Carruthers – couldn’t sleep at all, so got up at about midnight and did some sudokus. Eventually had an hour’s...
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micheal-stinson's picture
Oct.20.2008
Here's an excerpt from THE JESUS BOLT: It Slices, It Dices, No Kitchen Should Be Without One At any given time every morning there are no less...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.20.2008
Our deputy district attorney just called.  One of the juries has returned a verdict.  DefendentJ is guilty on all counts and is facing a possible...
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former member's picture
Oct.20.2008
by former member
By Steven Zeitchik--Publishers Weekly, 10/8/08 The San Francisco Chronicle has reversed its decisions made this spring to shorten its book review...
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former member's picture
Oct.20.2008
by former member
With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the alleged demise of Communism, it was assumed that the Olympic games would no longer be as much of an...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Oct.20.2008
Boy, this blog thing is really serious, isn't it.  It is possibly the saddest thing a lonely old writer can do, not that I am that old, but i am...
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enoch-john's picture
Oct.20.2008
Late evening on Broadway.A packed theatre.dim the lights and a lady walks onstage.It's not the fashionable French icon Carla Bruni.Neither is it that...
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former member's picture
Oct.20.2008
by former member
Never has one single word been so emblematic of a wholesale spirituality sell-out. Namasté is ALWAYS said at the end of every yoga class, and it irks...
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dave-rosenthal's picture
Oct.20.2008
Bye-bye Bouchercon Throughout the Bouchercon conference, which brought hundreds of mystery writers and fans to Baltimore, visiting authors wrote...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Oct.20.2008
Mervyn's is going out of business, which made me very sad when I found on Friday. Sad because it's proof this economy is pretty bad, and also Mervyn'...
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brian-mckee's picture
Oct.20.2008
Generally, I yammer about politics, spirituality, or writing. Lets talk about all three today, at once. Lets relate them to each other and see how we...
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