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Feb.24.2009
New Collage I had to rush it for a deadline, but it turned out better than I expected. Possible cover?
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Mar.01.2009
Altar I can see my breath. No windows.   Everything not moving is painted white. Here, in your mother's basement,I lie back on the bed tucked under...
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Mar.08.2009
Does the ending seem too abrupt? Wilderness Go to sleep, I whisper to my brother next to me in the hammock, go to sleep. He keeps jerking and...
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Mar.15.2009
At the Museum of Fire you stretch arms made of styrofoam and snow around me you offer to take my pain away, quick as a methadone-flavored gumdrop you...
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Mar.17.2009
Baby Brother At times, I miss the days before your birth, the short cotton dresses made from pillowcases, stained ric-rac around the neck and hem,...
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Mar.20.2009
for some. Doe Star Angel Doe Star Angel, he said to her after he was done, his hands finally tired, one nail ripped. That's what she heard. Then he...
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Mar.24.2009
The Stars are Yellow, Surrounded by Black At 6am, I splay my tender feet on cold pink tile, pretending I can't remember your name. House in the palm...
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Mar.26.2009
Spontaneous Generation Ginger tea, scraped from some humming clump at the bottom of a glass jar. Hot. Yellow. Toothy. It stings the palate, tastes...
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Mar.29.2009
My Little Pony and I float through the open door, crash into the river a mouthful of bright noise and slaughter the fisherman have brand new blue...
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Apr.10.2009
Reunion, II after Kiki Smith all ooze and whimper, they smile with broken teeth and ask to hold our hands, they sprout wings and descend from...
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Jan.23.2012
It was a first for me, gang! I did not get out of my PJs until 6 PM yesterday afternoon!! I didn't actually stay in bed -- I made the bed early in...
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Feb.04.2009
As writers we face a number of chicken-or-the-egg scenarios. In order to write a book we need money to finance the time and expence, but in order to...
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Apr.12.2009
To MFA or not to MFA, that is the question. Whether tis nobler to remain minimally debt free and unburdened of the pretentions of the teaching class...
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Jan.04.2011
Many automotive shop owners find that younger automotive performance enthusiasts make up a particularly difficult market to serve profitably. John...
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Feb.06.2010
Canadian Writers Air Google Book Search Gripes By Leigh Ann Williams -- Publishers Weekly, 2/3/2010 8:03:00 AM A group of about 175 Canadian writers...
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Feb.11.2010
Theoretical Physicist Sean Carroll on Writing about Time TravelBy Jason Boog on Feb 10, 2010 11:23 AM Time travel is one of literature's most popular...
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May.10.2010
epsilon-research.com   Good Grief! Research stopped me cold for a couple of hours the other day. "Hello," it said. Tapped me on the...
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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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Sep.30.2010
Key Porter lays off 15 staff, closes Toronto office Adam McDowell  September 30, 2010 John Lehmann/National Post Files Anna Porter in 2000. Key...
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Oct.08.2010
Bodleian Library expansion: so many books, so little space Millions of books are stored underground in Britain - but why bother when we could...
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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.