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phil-bronstein's picture
May.24.2008
  Yesterday I said that the Clinton camp's "leak" was the day's best drama, part of the most captivating national election since my family...
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ericka-lutz's picture
May.24.2008
Oh so busy! Life is good and full and deadlines are nigh, but I've promised myself to blog here at least twice a week, and it's been six days and so...
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blair-kilpatrick's picture
May.24.2008
What can I say?  Even though there are--what, a few billion?--books on Amazon, it's a thrill to stumble on one's own among the pack!  And with an...
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shana-mclean-moore's picture
May.24.2008
Happy Father's Day! Here's a tribute to the good guys... ### I was one of the lucky ones, but never knew it at the time. I assumed every girl had a...
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william-poy-lee's picture
May.24.2008
What a hoot -- journalist Linnea Due pits me, an empircal habitat gardner, in a smack-down against the contra but politic recommendations of a UC...
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corinne-heather-copnick's picture
May.24.2008
Good morning, friends,Formal address designations, I thought, had gone the way of the dinosaurs. In the feminist 1970s, we gave up the prevailing...
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jim-malusa's picture
May.23.2008
The morning I packed up to leave on my first-ever book tour, the phone rang at 7 AM. The call was from a radio station that wanted to set up an...
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fran-johns's picture
May.23.2008
When I learned (NYTimes, May 18) that Barack Obama was represented by my sometime agent Jane Dystel, one of the best, I took this as an instant bond...
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barbara-berman's picture
May.23.2008
 I DECIDED TO BEGIN MY SUMMER READING ENTRY WITH A NOD TO MY HOME TOWN, TOMS RIVER, ON THE JERSEY SHORE.  SOON AFTER HARVARD, ALAN RINZLER, TOMS...
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alan-black's picture
May.23.2008
 In the bar trade you meet the lower forms of behavior. And you develop a seething hatred for it. You understand why the wealthy and the elites...
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marguerite-kranick's picture
Jun.11.2008
I've had a few occasions of late to think about the past. But it's probably fair to say that it never ever left me, not exactly. As a social...
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paige-oneill's picture
Jun.11.2008
I was having dinner last night with some smart, amazing, highly successful women. They own their own thriving business, started a few years ago after...
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lynn-liccardo's picture
Jun.11.2008
After last week's inescapable explosion of gushing over the new and improved One Life to Live, I decided it was time to set aside my innate...
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kat-wilder's picture
Jun.11.2008
When a few of my friends got together recently — some in struggling marriages — we started talking about the good things that have happened to us...
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joseph-john's picture
Jun.11.2008
Once your book is picked up by a publisher, you must be prepared to sell your own novel. While publishers would love to go full out on every one of...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jun.11.2008
  I've had a stressful day. The kicker is, I've only been awake an hour. I had to find stamps for my mother, and we bickered if these were the right...
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former member's picture
Jun.11.2008
by former member
Re: Ellen Sussman Reading This Week The author of Dirty Words: A Literary Dictionary of Sex What a surefire title for success! Dirty Words: A...
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catherine-johnson's picture
Jun.10.2008
I have created a new Squidoo Lens for Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace. The page offers some components not found on the web site. These include:...
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g-lyles's picture
Jun.10.2008
Each day, I am appalled at the disrespect of young African American generations toward the gift of life, liberty, and the ability to pursue their...
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sue-glasco's picture
Jun.10.2008
  For the first time today, I've taken time to explore Red Room a bit.  And I noticed that copying a blog from elsewhere was even suggested on the...
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