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gregory-roensch's picture
May.31.2008
I just returned from a three-week vacation that took me to Paris, Lisbon, and Tavira, a small coastal town in the Algarve region of Portugal. It was...
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terence-clarke's picture
May.31.2008
52Cantas y a sol y a cielo con tu canto tu voz desgrana el cereal del día, hablan los pinos con su lengua verde: trinan todas las aves del invierno...
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susan-browne's picture
May.31.2008
I just read a great essay in this week's New Yorker.  The title is "Awake" by Jenny Allen.  It's about sleeplessness, how Buddha, who was...
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xujun-eberlein's picture
May.31.2008
Exclusive Interview with author Xujun Eberlein, Part I and Part II    
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catherine-lundoff's picture
May.31.2008
My story "Regency Masquerade" is now up at The Wry Writer  (http://wrywriter.com/?page_id=84). A very brief description follows:...
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laraine-herring's picture
May.31.2008
San Francisco's ghosts are as vibrant as the rainbow flags that fly from the tops of buildings on Market Street. Its ghosts cling to the basement of...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
May.31.2008
I have never been limber and flexible.  I'm kind of your muscle-y person, not lithe and free flowing and able to do the splits or other major...
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dave-donelson's picture
May.31.2008
The most exciting news I've heard since Kunati picked up the rights to Heart of Diamonds was that my publisher was named Independent Publisher of the...
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magdalena-ball's picture
May.30.2008
Hi everyone, I'll be doing a public chat on LibraryThing from the 23rd of June to the 4th of July and I'd love you to come and throw me your...
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alan-black's picture
May.30.2008
The aggression of the "excuse me" bastard brigade was on display in the bar last night. That phrase, now a pejorative used as a battering...
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thomas-dotson's picture
Jun.20.2008
Many of you may have noticed something different on redroom.com. Last night we began to roll out completely new author and member search pages. I'm...
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gayle-early's picture
Jun.20.2008
This is what I call the mysterious, quarklike appearance of ideas. If I don’t grab a pen pronto they slip out. Gone. To flit into someone else’s...
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sheila-english's picture
Jun.20.2008
What do condoms, bacon and a Mickey Mantel rookie card have in common? They were found between the pages of used books. I read the most interesting...
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jennifermassoni's picture
Jun.20.2008
It’s not every evening that you can sit, just four rows in, and listen to one of our great contemporary writers talk candidly about writing, history...
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gayle-early's picture
Jun.20.2008
One of my favorite words is reification (now that you can use my most hated words against me). Sounds like a meaningless jumble of morphemes, doesn’t...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jun.20.2008
Once again, say it with me:It's too darn hot!So here's another Sharon Olds poem to celebrate the first day of summer. I'm also including some of my...
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kat-wilder's picture
Jun.20.2008
It was almost half-way through the soccer season when Sara, her hand deep into the bag of organic, fair-trade flax seed blue corn chips I brought,...
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marguerite-kranick's picture
Jun.20.2008
I am an editor as well as a teacher of English grammar and sentence mechanics. I know the rules of grammar, and I teach them. It's an odd time to be...
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audra-krell's picture
Jun.20.2008
I've recently been talking with a writer's group about the best conditions for writing.  Most entries discuss necessary visuals such as trees, ponds...
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sharon-blackmon's picture
Jun.20.2008
Do terrible things always happen at midnight? the word itself, Midnight, connotes gloom and doom. The hour of midnight can be frightening. Is this...
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