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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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gerard-jones's picture
May.30.2008
Reality continues to unravel around right-wing bloggers' belief that Rachael Ray's paisley scarf was an act of pro-terrorist "hate couture....
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cheryl-l-snell's picture
May.30.2008
I just read Paul Theroux’s The Elephanta Suite, three novellas about Americans in India. Aside from a few easy reversals, abrupt transformations, and...
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cheryl-l-snell's picture
May.30.2008
Here's a crunchy snack to take to a Red Room housewarming. It's called bhel-puri, and is a popular Indian beach food. Here, it can be found already...
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terence-clarke's picture
May.30.2008
51Tu risa pertenece a un árbol entreabierto por un rayo, por un relámpago plateado que desde el cielo cae quebrándose en la copa, partiendo en dos el...
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dashka-slater's picture
May.30.2008
One of the more pointless and addictive things you can do when you have a new book out, is repetitively Google the title to find out what is being...
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jt-ellison's picture
May.30.2008
Have you ever noticed that we writers are a little strange? Here's a great example for you... I'm sitting in the airport at the moment, one of my...
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phil-bronstein's picture
May.30.2008
  The publishing world is in love with lists. Top 10 exotic secret (until now) hideaways. The 100 most powerful people in Poughkeepsie. The ranking...
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elmaz-abinader's picture
May.30.2008
I'm a slow writer. Poems enter at will; the chapters of the memoir and the novel flow slow blood through my arms. So I often delay the satisfaction...
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bob-mustin's picture
Jun.20.2008
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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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