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dorothy-hearst's picture
Jun.29.2008
When I found out that I was going to be reading my first novel at Cody’s, it was quite literally a dream come true. Many times as I toiled away,...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jun.29.2008
I love it when I write something fictional, and then find out it's true. Was it something I overheard, or read, or the Universe whispered in my ear...
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ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Jun.29.2008
In truth, we won't be swimming much, for the Dead Sea has such incredibly high salt content (30%) that it places the body too high in the water to...
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bob-levin's picture
Jun.29.2008
I had read Ron Hansen's NEBRASKA and ATTICUS a decade or so ago, but after enjoying the film of THE ASSASINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT...
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diane-lockward's picture
Jun.29.2008
I've just learned that the Festival and Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place, held in Franconia, New Hampshire, still has openings for their one-...
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evie-shockley's picture
Jun.29.2008
I've finished reading Arnold Rampersad's biography of Langston Hughes. Heavy sigh. What a rollercoaster! And what an illuminating work! Reading...
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devorah-major's picture
Jun.29.2008
We women who came of age during the Black Power Movement, the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and yes the Feminist Movement continue to...
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dave-donelson's picture
Jun.29.2008
You know you can find a book at your public library, but did you know you might also find a job there? The Westchester (NY) Library System (where I...
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steve-hauk's picture
Jun.29.2008
Scene: a pub in Deptford, just off the Thames. Four men at a table, drinking heavily, worried. A silence, just the sounds of swigging ale, an...
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marcia-meier's picture
Jun.29.2008
Well, another Santa Barbara Writers Conference has come and gone, and a lot of happy, exhausted writers have traveled back home, inspired, motivated...
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the-book-smugglers's picture
Aug.28.2008
Title: Hostage to Pleasure Author: Nalini Singh Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone/ Series: Book 5 of Psy-Changeling series. Summary: Separated...
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sue-glasco's picture
Aug.27.2008
Where last year’s garden was, Gerald planted a patch of sunflowers.  He quickly acknowledged that they were much too thick. I don’t think he really...
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former member's picture
Aug.27.2008
by former member
Scientists Repurpose Adult Cells - "Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living...
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former member's picture
Aug.27.2008
by former member
Three summers ago, Pascal Bernabe strapped on a scuba tank, stepped off a boat and descended 330 meters into the Mediterranean. This is his account...
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karen-talavera's picture
Aug.27.2008
This came across my email last week: "A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on either end of a pole which he carried across his...
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jay-marvin's picture
Aug.27.2008
Okay now what? I've written one novella and one book of poetry, and after 12 years I've decided to start writing again. I love hard boiled...
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former member's picture
Aug.27.2008
by former member
The Surge is working [tm] -- but for gay Iraqis who face a murderous new spate of violence by theocrats and militiamen, notsomuch. "More than...
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dan-brantley's picture
Aug.27.2008
Humor, it's a lot like the weather: Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it.
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Aug.27.2008
I helped my friend Lilly-Marie move yesterday. Mostly it was just helping her carrying in boxes,but as a person who has moved four times in ten years...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Aug.27.2008
              It's an exciting week here in my house! That's because it's the Democratic National Convention! Where for one week you can be proud you...
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