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mary-lynn-i-archibald's picture
Jun.20.2008
I think I'm through with author book signings and readings at bookstores. The idea sounds great, but the reality is somewhere between depressing and...
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cliff-burns's picture
Jun.20.2008
I went through a grieving process after I completed So Dark the Night. I missed my two central characters--Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalk--...
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lisa-solod's picture
Jun.20.2008
   My husband and I haven't had the opportunity to take many vacations, partly because we have only been married a year and a half and partly...
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ryan-masters's picture
Jun.20.2008
With the Olympics around the corner, I was reminded of a piece I wrote two years ago about my favorite Olympian...Wild Bill Johnson.  ***** In 1984...
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geling-yan's picture
Jun.20.2008
Our friend Charlie Ray (aka Amb. Charles Ray) just published a practical, down-to-earth book on leadership and joined Red Room.  You can find his new...
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alex-grant's picture
Jun.20.2008
So Israel is saber-rattling over Iran - one wonders if this is at the behest of our current administration, hoping either that someone else is going...
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peter-trachtenberg's picture
Jun.20.2008
At last weekend's Asia Society symposium on the Beats in India, I listened to an odd and frustrating conversation between the poet John Giorno and...
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steve-hauk's picture
Jun.20.2008
. . . about publishers and producers and agents, but seldom do we speak of readers _ other than as numbers. Fact is, they're disappearing. Earlier...
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katherine-mcwilliams's picture
Jun.20.2008
Despite being married two months ago, my husband and I just started living together.  Most people I tell seem to think it's funny.  They look at me...
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brenda-webster's picture
Jun.20.2008
   Older women are too often neglected in more spheres than one. What to do. Nan Gefen original founder with Michael Lerner of Tikkun has started a...
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ricky-rivera's picture
Aug.09.2008
My eyes feasted in the explosion of colors and the sheer symmetry of human forms paying homage to the majesty of nature. Truly, the Beijing Olympics...
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ricky-rivera's picture
Aug.09.2008
I just spent more than twenty years of my life as a writer. Nothing extraordinary about that except that I should have been a lawyer.  My father...
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former member's picture
Aug.08.2008
by former member
As culture passes through various stages of technological development, the science fiction of a particular point in history often reflects the...
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former member's picture
Aug.08.2008
by former member
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1041709/Dead-dogs-owner-creates-FIVE-cloned-puppies-beloved-pet.html
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edmund-jenks's picture
Aug.08.2008
Barack Obama is still on the market for a running mate today after veep speculators talked up a surprise announcement in Indiana today. The rumors...
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marguerite-kranick's picture
Aug.08.2008
9:29am... Wearing a new t shirt for casual Fridays, and it has a guy on it that looks like a Weebl and he is either one of two people... Michael...
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former member's picture
Aug.08.2008
by former member
Portraits of the spaces where writers (and the like) create: the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods these people (mostly...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Aug.08.2008
              Three years ago, my aunt Chia called my mom. "How would you like to live in a four bedroom house in Lafayette?" she asked...
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randy-wong's picture
Aug.07.2008
I will be totally honest here.  I am five foot seven (seven and half with my walking shoes), and I weigh more than 250 pounds.  And, before you ask,...
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tom-flanders's picture
Aug.07.2008
The new politicaly correct word for junk food. That isn't a joke. It seems that telling kids that they're eating junk food is "demeaning."...
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