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tim-wise's picture
Jul.04.2008
Here's a holiday-appropriate rant, taken from a longer essay I did in October of 2001. The title of the essay was "Patriotism as Pathology,...
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gerard-jones's picture
Jul.04.2008
Today was Day 1 of the Joy of Sisyphus. That's my new program for writing this book: lean into the boulder, forget about the top of the hill, and...
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joselle-vanderhooft's picture
Jul.03.2008
So Sam's Dot Publishing is releasing my second full-length poetry collection The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice Told this month. This book (a...
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tasha-alexander's picture
Jul.03.2008
So, evidently, I’ve decided that the best way to prepare for a fabulous weekend is to go out before it even starts. Regular readers know that few...
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maria-espinosa's picture
Jul.03.2008
In the fall of 1997 I began working in an office in downtown San Francisco south of Market. The large number of homeless people on the streets deeply...
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brenda-webster's picture
Jul.03.2008
A woman and her husband sat down at the table next to us, outdoors at the cafe. He was tall, dark, mild mannered. She was blond, wore glasses and...
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robert-todd-felton's picture
Jul.03.2008
By the time I am writing this, the skies overhead are a denim blue, the far hills have moved though their evening purple mountains majesty and are...
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dale-estey's picture
Jul.03.2008
Where is your cell phone? Unpurchased Your significant other? Franz Your hair? Short Your mother? Dead Your father? Ditto Your favorite time of...
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kristina-riggle's picture
Jul.03.2008
So I'm here at Red Room now, and I'm supposed to identify my authorial influences. I hesitate. I hesitate, because I don't know. I can tell you which...
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sean-beaudoin's picture
Jul.03.2008
My short story The Spectacle has just gone up on Identity Theory, an excellent online lit journal. You can read it and check them out here. There's a...
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kim-smith's picture
Sep.05.2008
I have a terrible curiosity, much like a cat. I nose around and ask questions just for my own edification. Today just such a question has arisen and...
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brad-green's picture
Sep.05.2008
Lunch.  Clouds a few white snarls against the blue.  Clomping across the parking lot concrete.  A water hose martyred by tire tracks curving new...
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brian-mckee's picture
Sep.05.2008
One of my lessons for this lifetime (perhaps this is a lesson everyone needs to learn, perhaps not) has been understanding the true nature of energy...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Sep.05.2008
  November is two months away, and I have started to think about my NaNoWriMo novel. I know the basic plot, and I'm seeing the characters in my head...
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ananda-klopstra's picture
Sep.05.2008
Hey there folks.. Ever had a writer's block? I do. Unfortunately. I'm already stuck while I've only got something like 65 pages... *sigh* Life is...
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ananda-klopstra's picture
Sep.05.2008
Hey there folks.. Ever had a writer's block? I do. Unfortunately. I'm already stuck while I've only got something like 65 pages... *sigh* Life is...
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the-book-smugglers's picture
Sep.05.2008
Title: Ink Exchange Author: Melissa Marr Genre: Young Adult, Dark Fantasy Stand Alone or Series: Second book in the series. Summary: (from...
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former member's picture
Sep.04.2008
by former member
The Sleep Medicine Home Page: A comprehensive links and resources one-pager for both professionals and sufferers, resources regarding all aspects of...
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faruk-buzhala's picture
Sep.04.2008
Dua të qaj të derdh dufin që kam Dua të qaj të zgjidh shpirtin mbështjellë me velin e mërzisë Dua të qaj deri në cep të unit tim Dua të qaj të vadis...
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alina-bradford's picture
Sep.04.2008
In Israel folklore there is a story about King Solomon that I have always held close to my heart. It goes something like this: One day King Solomon...
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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.