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manny-pacheco's picture
May.23.2013
Laurie and I enjoyed a super evening at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, one of the Burbs of Chicago. A production of Oliver! was the bill...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Sep.20.2012
Kirkus Reviews asked me out of the blue if I'd like to write about "How I Did It"--about how I achieved a level of success as an independent...
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rosy-cole's picture
Feb.19.2013
  Why do the charmed play hide and seek and flee the story in the wings, as if disporting on the stage could set alight the curtain fringe?...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Sep.20.2012
Kirkus Reviews asked me out of the blue if I'd like to write about "How I Did It"--about how I achieved a level of success as an independent...
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enoch-john's picture
Dec.10.2012
Having already formed the yin and yan cosmic triangles,now at each point draw an imaginary line to connect with a chosen heavenly body.Let's start...
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jacqueline-mitchell's picture
May.19.2013
I worked an Expo yesterday and I am amazed as ever at Spirit's capacity to love their people and their tolerance at explaining why they are showing...
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May.24.2013
YANKEES/MOB PITCH           What if…?           In 1920, the New York Yankees became controlled by...
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manny-pacheco's picture
May.19.2013
The FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD Pilot Documentary (Development) online funding campaign officially concluded on Saturday. What a finale at Westminster...
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farzana-versey's picture
May.19.2013
A flaky torn bit of page crumbled in my hand as I opened the bookshelf. The  remnant had left nothing to read.  The collection is eclectic, but I...
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May.24.2013
From R. Barri Flowers, award winning crime writer and internationally bestselling author of DARK STREETS OF WHITECHAPEL and KILLER IN THE WOODS,...
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Oct.02.2008
Let’s face it. All legal violations are not equal. Who among us has never jaywalked, driven above the speed limit, indulged in a private poker party...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Oct.20.2012
On this day in October, this page of mine on Red Room reached 250,000 views around 12:30 p.m. I predicted in September that I'd hit this milestone in...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Oct.20.2012
On this day in October, this page of mine on Red Room reached 250,000 views around 12:30 p.m. I predicted in September that I'd hit this milestone in...
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mark-f-dewitt's picture
Apr.20.2009
Notes on Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown, 2008). When I finished reading this book, I said to myself:...
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dale-estey's picture
Dec.05.2010
Lit Ink by David Goodwillie Forget butterflies or skull and bones, the new tattoo fad is Plath, Faulkner, and other quotes from famous authors. David...
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tim-wise's picture
Nov.28.2008
Recently, after a presentation to teachers about racial bias in high school curricula, I got into a tiny spat with an instructor who objected to my...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Aug.15.2012
A Conversation with an Early Adapter of Self-Publishing Gone Mainstream Boyd Morrison fits no easy stereotypes for a novelist. With a BS degree in...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Aug.15.2012
A Conversation with an Early Adapter of Self-Publishing Gone Mainstream Boyd Morrison fits no easy stereotypes for a novelist. With a BS degree in...
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john-parker-oughton's picture
Sep.03.2009
Attending the mass orientation for new graduate students, I look around with some trepidation.  Will I fit in, or make any friends?  Will there be...
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tim-wise's picture
Sep.21.2008
Reflections on White Anti-Intellectualism(Or, What'cha Want With all That Book Learnin'?)By Tim WiseSeptember 14, 2008 To hear an awful lot of white...
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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.