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kristen-j-tsetsi's picture
Mar.09.2009
(written by Henry Baum): There’s something about discovering a great self-published novel that’s different from discovering a novel that’s...
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Mar.11.2009
...there's an unlimited wealth of information online. Mostly about what it's like after years of involvement, and what it's like to try to get out.  ...
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Mar.14.2009
I'll be signing and selling copies of Homefront at Fort Campbell, KY, in the PX (area) lobby on April 3 and 4, between 10am and 4pm. Ft. Campbell's...
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Mar.14.2009
In my living room, the message light blinks ‘1’.           Jake.         I sit at the desk, but I can’t, so I stand, leaning close to the...
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Mar.14.2009
A lawmaker in West Virginia wants to outlaw Barbie because [she] promotes unrealistic beauty standards. The bill was proposed Tuesday "to ban...
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Mar.16.2009
If you haven't heard of the American Fiction Prize, that's okay, because the original deadline - March 15 - has been extended and is now May 1. ...
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Mar.18.2009
Guggenheim fellowship recipient Josip Novakovich, author of The Fiction Writers Workshop, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, and April Fool's Day...
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Mar.18.2009
I've spent the last several hours putting together a series of agent queries for Homefront (with the new and improved title, Hello, Goodbye). I haven...
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Mar.20.2009
If you talk war politics but have never been to war, you'll want The Things They Carried to put a soul inside the soldier's uniform. If you talk war...
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Mar.21.2009
At first, I loved Twitter's simplicity. No MySpace or Facebook gadgets like growing gardens, photo albums, snowball fights, groups, or event invites...
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Apr.02.2010
April, apparently, IS the cruellest month.  These daily challenges from Read Write Poem are keeping me hopping. Please stop by Scrambled, Not Fried...
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Oct.06.2010
He feeds the ravenous seagulls down beside the lake, shares his lunch hour with others that most other people disregard. He thinks about Richard,...
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Dec.08.2010
She keeps coming at me with shot glasses and half-empty bottles, even now, more than 20 years after I last saw her, squintingly drunk, blacked out on...
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Jan.03.2011
 He opens the window, lets in as much January as he thinks he can handle.  A few stray flakes blow in off the outside sill despite the apparent...
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Jan.22.2011
I’m happy to announce that my poem “Outside The Inn,” originally published by Every Day Poets on Chistmas Eve in 2008, has been included in their...
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Feb.03.2011
Three days later, early, certainlywell before sunrise, after the graspers and flashers have packed up and gone,after the national news has had its...
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Oct.16.2011
October Poetry Reading Sponsored by Jeudevine Library Time: October 18 2011 @ 7 PMPrice: FreeLocation: Memorial Building; Hardwick, VTDescription...
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Dec.21.2011
     He spends the morning summarizing the month nineteen times, nineteen different ways, in fifteen-minute increments;...
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Feb.20.2009
Well how exciting is this?  I’ve got another reading engagement set up for April 7th at Common Good Books. Please stop by and say hello.  And if that...
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Dec.16.2009
When I was a kid, my mother would drag me to the local TV stations in Washington, DC, hoping that one of us would be selected as a contestant on one...
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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.