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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Apr.14.2008
I have nothing at all against plastic, cosmetic, or reconstructive surgery.  Listen, whatever works for whomever wants it.  I don't think the effect...
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bett-norris's picture
Apr.14.2008
 The workshops and panels are still being firmed up for New Orleans. I know I'll be there, and I know I'll probably be doing a reading. The...
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fran-johns's picture
Apr.13.2008
A writer friend with an almost-finished book told me recently she thought she would podcast it, skipping the bother of agents and editors and such....
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marc-tyler-nobleman's picture
Apr.13.2008
  In September 2007, I first saw a sketch of Ross MacDonald's cover concept for Boys of Steel: Notice anything? (Yes, besides the misspelling...
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brian-shawver's picture
Apr.13.2008
A few weeks ago, I read about the ongoing controversy surrounding Dmitri Nabokov's obligation to destroy his father's unpublished manuscript "...
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stephen-evans's picture
Apr.13.2008
As long as I can remember, I have had this nagging feeling that I was supposed to do something. It was not that I had forgotten to do something. (...
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lee-konstantinou's picture
Apr.13.2008
This is the first of what I hope will become a series of Red Room posts leading up to the publication of my first novel, Pop Apocalypse, which Ecco/...
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arlene-goldbard's picture
Apr.13.2008
I wrote this on the plane home after a week on the road, so grateful I wasn't booked on American Airlines that my good cheer was barely dented by a...
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ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Apr.13.2008
Some of you have wondered about the flowers on my home page.  They are black irises, the national flower of Jordan.  They flourish this time of year...
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evan-handler's picture
Apr.13.2008
My second book, IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive, comes out May 1. It's been described as: A provocative, funny,...
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robert-siciliano's picture
May.22.2013
Mobile technology is the new frontier for fraudsters. Today, there are more wireless devices than American people. Mobile devices connect to...
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nicholas-mackey's picture
May.22.2013
Extract from notebook 13.00, Good Friday 29th March 2013 while riding the train into London Waterloo: Idea for short story popped into my head called...
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paul-bates's picture
May.22.2013
2005’s A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is one of those rare films in which the whole is equal by the sum of its dazzling parts. The cast, featuring Viggo...
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nicholas-mackey's picture
May.22.2013
My second submission for this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibtion is entitled, 'Past Present'. It is a diptych, like 'Primesight', based on a...
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nicholas-mackey's picture
May.22.2013
Here's an entry from my diary early July 2011: Went to the Afghanistan Exhibition at the British Museum today. Fascinating and if you haven't been...
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michael-seidel's picture
May.22.2013
Interesting article on CBS.com. '(CBS News) Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has...
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michael-seidel's picture
May.22.2013
My wife was busy playing an online computer game.  She's a quadriple threat, making spectator comments and urging herself on like a coach or...
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raissa-falgui's picture
May.22.2013
Lately I've been watching a number of movies with endings that do not quite satisfy. These are all award-winning films, and I guess their way of...
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michael-barry's picture
May.22.2013
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monique-belli's picture
May.22.2013
I slept later than usual this morning because I was awake for three hours in the middle of the night.  I knew that a dream had woken me and that...
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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.