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Feb.07.2010
Crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet runs a weekly feature asking authors to write about a "forgotten" book that merits new attention. This...
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Feb.08.2010
The Campaign for the American Reader blog empire's flagship is the Page 69 Test. The premise is this: open any book to page 69; if it grabs you, that...
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Feb.09.2010
During my swing through New York this last few weeks, I dropped into the space-age HQ of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Sixth Avenue in Midtown...
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Feb.11.2010
Here's a whimsical video demponstrating that the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is a better place from which to observe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than...
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Feb.12.2010
I’ve been called the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine, the John Le Carre of the Middle East, the James Ellroy of…Palestine, the Graham Greene of...
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Feb.13.2010
Crime writer Simon Beckett wrote a few days ago in The Guardian that he’d had no idea he was the best-selling British novelist in Europe until...
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Feb.14.2010
My new Palestinian crime novel THE FOURTH ASSASSIN is one of five "This Week's Hot Reads" on The Daily Beast, which also happens to be the...
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Feb.15.2010
On the My Book, The Movie blog, I was asked to muse about who I'd choose to play Omar Yussef in the movies. Well, musing I can do -- it's about as...
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Feb.18.2010
Some authors exude the pleasure of reading and writing (and, believe me, when you meet them, you’d be surprised how many just don’t.) J. Sydney Jones...
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Feb.18.2010
You’d think there was something wrong with spying. People pay good money to watch Daniel Craig dispose of villains in the bloodiest fashion. They nod...
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Jul.01.2011
MINDLESS MAGICK IN SOULLESS BIRTHS   Om Namo Guru Buddha Gyani   Academic Zodiac: because it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. First published...
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Oct.22.2009
Benin, the ancient city of the 'Igodomigodos' Seated in a quiet part of the South-South Nigeria Carpeted with red soils, circled by moats and laced...
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Feb.12.2010
 The Central Report on Freedom   Weather - 60 inches of snow and counting…          Knowledge is freedom…             With unlimited megabytes of...
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Nov.22.2010
Surely there must have been Pilgrim dogs!
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stephanie-smith's picture
Aug.24.2008
I am currently looking for an agent to help bring Princess Stephanie's Divine Guides to the world. 
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enoch-john's picture
Aug.28.2009
As far as I  know,there is no other family as the Kennedys ,that has created such a tremendous impact upon the socio-political landscape of America....
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enoch-john's picture
Nov.08.2010
Writing,to me ,is such a joy.I love writing.I have self-published a volume of poetry mostly because I wish to be known as a poet.So far I have not...
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Aug.17.2011
Dear Editors,                     This is just a...
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Aug.27.2008
If one considers fire the quick expression of a twig's anger, one can understand why, at the termination of the outrage, nothing remains but grey...
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Nov.18.2008
Imagine a rash that only itches when you look at it. Most things are like this; they flare into their known states when fed with attention. My...
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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.