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declan-burke's picture
Jun.14.2008
The first question people tend to ask about A GONZO NOIR is, ‘Why waste a perfectly good novel publishing it to the internet?’ This presupposes that...
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dale-estey's picture
Jun.14.2008
The sea was in front and the field was behind and the wind stirred them both. The wharf was in the distance and the piled-high bolder breakwall was...
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lynne-reeves-griffin's picture
Jun.14.2008
Confidence sits in the precarious place between self-doubt and egotism. Having faith in yourself takes work. Yesterday my daughter called from her...
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alex-grant's picture
Jun.14.2008
Leaving for Charlotte in a couple of hours. I'm considering out-patient treatment for my Wordtwist(the Facebook app) addiction. Wish I hadn't spent...
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matthew-biberman's picture
Jun.13.2008
I find motorcycles interesting in part because they are liminal objects. Only recently have they served as focal points for large museums that are...
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belle-yang's picture
Jun.13.2008
When I returned home after 3 years of living in cold water flats, after I had dragged my bedraggled self home from the bloodbath of the Tiananmen...
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judith-tannenbaum's picture
Jun.13.2008
New Village Press will publish By Heart: A Prison Conversation , a two-person memoir I'm writing with Spoon Jackson. We will talk about prison,...
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glenda-burgess's picture
Jun.13.2008
As I read the latest reviews in the NYT Book review, I am struck by the degree to which fewer and fewer of us read for serious purposes outside of...
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cheryl-l-snell's picture
Jun.13.2008
  Written on returning from the farmer's market: Still Life with Sunflowers  When I cut elastic from the sunflowers, the stems, girdle-less now,...
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catherine-lundoff's picture
Jun.13.2008
I just learned that my collection, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing made the finalist list in the erotica category of the 2008 GLCS Literary...
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jane-bowell's picture
Jul.24.2008
  One of the problems about doing research for an article is sometimes that one gets this incredible desire to be « clever » and find links...
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jane-bowell's picture
Jul.24.2008
  Sound's off There ‘s a white circle with a red bar through it As I look at the pictures that deceive the eye Tuned into red laced fields...
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former member's picture
Jul.24.2008
by former member
I have been informed today that I am going to teach Sex Ed to the fifth graders. I shouldn’t say I was ‘informed’- technically, I was asked to do...
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randy-wong's picture
Jul.23.2008
Just wanted to add my quick 2 cents about the Dark Knight movie.  Batman movies are something special to me because I am a very big Batman fan.  Love...
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edmund-jenks's picture
Jul.23.2008
Senator Barack Obama and Terry Moran of ABC News - "I've always reserved the right, uh, to say---let's say that ethnic, uh, ethnic fighting...
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mike-firesmith's picture
Jul.23.2008
I have no idea how many times in my life I given blood, but suffice it to say that if there was a way to gather it all together in one place at one...
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joseph-john's picture
Jul.23.2008
As regular patrons of my website know, I am currently on leave. My wife read my rough draft of The Eighth Day. She's the first person to read it in...
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huntington-sharp's picture
Jul.23.2008
One of the highlights of my work week is taking my proposals for what to feature on Red Room's homepage into Ivory's office for approval. She's...
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former member's picture
Jul.23.2008
by former member
According to the China Aid Association, Pastor Zhang Zhongxin has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese labor camp by Shandong Province...
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former member's picture
Jul.23.2008
by former member
The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History has an extensive, searchable online collection. It focuses on material art and household items and has...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.