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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.11.2008
I am sure that you have words that you think about. Words that have made you laugh. Words you have obsessed over, talked about with other word-...
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belle-yang's picture
Jul.10.2008
What I have often said to myself is, Gee, when I switch to my Chinese texts at night, I feel like I am moving from one part of the brain to another...
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julia-flynn-siler's picture
Jul.10.2008
In the fall of 2007, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) ran a lengthy essay by Steve Wasserman, a former editor of The Los Angeles Times Book...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jul.10.2008
The summer semester hits hard. Not much brain left at the end of the day. So I'm sacked out on the couch, bringing you lemurs, tortoises, chameleons...
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michael-p-naughton's picture
Jul.10.2008
If you have a taste for slambang satire that plays games with the names of dead celebrities from James Dean to Barbara Stanwyck and a hearse driver...
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geoffrey-thorne's picture
Jul.10.2008
Well. It had to happen. Eventually some lunatic would want to ask me to talk about something and record the conversation. That lunatic is Brandon...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Jul.10.2008
Home from London, visit with old Rutgers buddy Deborah Harper.  Lou and I danced and dined under the stars on a riverboat cruising the Thames.  ...
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caroline-leavitt's picture
Jul.10.2008
I am sitting here staring in wonder and joy at my book contract from Algonquin for my novel BREATHE.  OK, I admit it.  I was worried that even though...
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alex-grant's picture
Jul.10.2008
Another belting-hot day in Soufriere and we're just hanging out by the pool - tonight we're going for dinner at a restaurant which serves the hottest...
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phil-bronstein's picture
Jul.10.2008
This is about money. And doing what you say you're going to do. It's only a quarter involved, it's not a $100 tank of gas or the $9.7 trillion...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Sep.17.2008
It was bound to happen. It happens every year. Fall comes, when we're ready for it or not. I'm never ready for it. Well, in some ways I am. Although...
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joshua-booth's picture
Sep.17.2008
This is not about Sarah Palin. If you want gossip about Sarah Palin read The National Enquirer. If you want to do something about the terrible state...
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josh-newtonn's picture
Sep.16.2008
I've just joined and I know nobody here. Thought to start with an idea for writers. For long, I'd been fascinated by the idea of writing fiction...
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keiko-amano's picture
Sep.16.2008
I went back to see the sign this morning and examined it.   It is a propaganda sign of Komei Party.  The line at the bottom says it is for newly-weds...
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cheryl-wright's picture
Sep.16.2008
I've been without Internet connection for the second time in two and a half months. What a drag.  At first I feel lost, disoriented or yses and angry...
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former member's picture
Sep.16.2008
by former member
The Thai Elephant Orchestra. Founded by Richard Lair and Dave Soldier at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang, Thailand, a former...
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linda-reid's picture
Sep.16.2008
It was like a live, fierce animal waiting outside my door-waiting to grasp me into it mouth and chew me up-then spit me out like all the debris lying...
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lina-ru's picture
Sep.16.2008
by Lina Ru
We live inside a society that wants to exploit art commercially. In a way, they may even make you feel what you do is worthless if no money is ever...
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terri-molina's picture
Sep.16.2008
From September 15 to October 15 the nation will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. I'm not sure when the holiday started or rather, when the nation...
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tamala-golden's picture
Sep.16.2008
Exclude if you will The innocent bystander It was not his intent Or will to philander All fault lies with me I take up the blame To offer excuses...
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