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chris-rodell's picture
Oct.11.2012
  878 word I can look to my left and gaze upon what to me is the most beautiful paycheck I’ve ever seen. The observation has nothing to do with...
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anni-kerlin's picture
Oct.11.2012
Where do I start? I was born of an American soldier and a Japanese mother who spoke very little English yet somehow my parents managed to...
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michael-seidel's picture
Oct.11.2012
"My hard drive is just spinning," a woman said this morning. Everyone laughed.  She wasn't talking about her computer. She referred to herself....
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judee-fong's picture
Oct.11.2012
We've all known or have met someone like Daniel or Ellie in our growing-up years. They're the kids with the long-wearing, sensible clothes, bought...
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naseem-rakha's picture
Oct.11.2012
Way up, up, up there—sky level, is a town called Ambelakia. It is in Greece and it sits with the clouds, the world below a small toy. And bakers bake...
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naseem-rakha's picture
Oct.11.2012
Way up, up, up there—sky level, is a town called Ambelakia. It is in Greece and it sits with the clouds, the world below a small toy. And bakers bake...
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sharon-cathcart's picture
Oct.11.2012
I studied both French and Spanish in junior high school, settling on French when I got to high school.  All together, I had two years of Spanish...
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jessica-anya-blau's picture
Oct.11.2012
If you don’t know who Junot Díaz is, you should.  His writing stands out as startlingly original in a world that often feels crammed with...
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gabrielle-burton's picture
Oct.11.2012
Guatemala, Yikes! I said about ten times a day. I was going to Guatemala out of love.  My husband was studying Spanish and loving it, so...
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tracy-ewens's picture
Oct.11.2012
  I have this blouse.  I bought it about two years ago.  It's an actual grown up blouse, silky and everything.  I brought it...
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michael-olsen's picture
Aug.02.2010
Recently the author Anne Rice decided in private, and then made it public via Facebook, that she could no longer follow the Christian religion. She...
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diane-lockward's picture
Aug.05.2010
Today's featured poet is Nancy White, a very talented poet and a delightful person. I had the pleasure of meeting Nancy this past June at the Caffe...
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jeffrey-friedberg's picture
Aug.05.2010
“cli•ché also cliche (kl -sh  )n.1. A trite or overused expression or idea” The Free Dictionary Beware the Evil Cliché—the hackneyed, the trite, the...
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richard-martin's picture
Aug.07.2010
When he knocked on our door two days later, a jaunty little tap-tap tap-tap-tap, I didn’t open it. I looked through the peephole. “I’m the unknown...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Aug.08.2010
I avoided the attic all Summer long and today decided that I had to face the chaos that prevailed within the eaves of this house. Too often I threw...
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robert-siciliano's picture
Aug.09.2010
With 20+ million iPhones on the market there is a good chance you have one. According to San Francisco police, the 31-year-old city resident rode a...
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robert-siciliano's picture
Aug.12.2010
Traveling for business or pleasure is hectic, unnerving, not at all glamorous and often draining. Often, we say we need a vacation after a vacation....
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robert-siciliano's picture
Aug.17.2010
“Contactless,” in this context, refers to the use of a wireless device. A payment is contactless when, instead of inserting your credit or debit card...
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yolande-barial's picture
Aug.26.2010
  I woke up this morning a little tired. I had spent the night writing thank you cards and feeling good with who I have become.  I heard Joyce...
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dale-estey's picture
Aug.27.2010
Man Booker Prize app launchedFirst literary prize to launch app26 August 2010 The Man Booker Prize today, 26 August 2010, unveils exciting new...
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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.