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Roll Over, Gutenberg! Interview with Colleen Higgs

COLLEEN HIGGS, author of Halfborn Woman1 talks to MOIRA RICHARDS about poetry, patriarchy and self-publishing (This article first appeared in the ‘Contemporary Activism?'...

What's behind claims about Israel's organ trade?

by Matt Beynon Rees

By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Donald Bostrom, a freelance Swedish journalist who wrote an article this summer accusing Israeli officials of...

Acceptance of Ease and Grace

by Stephen Kaufman

One of the most difficult things that anyone has to deal with is the acceptance of personal good delivered with ease and grace....

Balderdash!

by Diane Chamberlain

I drove down the long gravel driveway to the Weymouth mansion Thursday afternoon with a prayer of gratitude on my lips. Coming here...

John Lennon, Literary Quipster

by Barbara Alexandra Szerlip

Recently, I watched tapes of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's appearances on the Dick Cavett Show.The first one, on September 11,...

Metro

by beverley bie brahic

This morning I went to the Cité Universitaire for Helene Cixous's seminar, cutting through the Luxembourg Garden to the metro station. The leaves...

Reading the World

by J.P. Smith

As I get older I find that I read less and less contemporary fiction and either go to older works I’d overlooked or...

Nanowrimo once more . . .

by Lisa Frankfort

It's just a wee bit embarrassing to be the San Francisco Municipal Liaison and be THIS far off the intended word count. How...

Madeline DeFrees Celebration - Poetry and Grace...

by Susan Rich

I love looking at these photographs as they remind me what a perfect evening we all had. Since I almost never take photographs,...

The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro...

by Gina Collia-Suzuki

My third book has just been released; all 612 pages of it. 'The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: A Descriptive Catalogue' is...

From the Mail Bag

by Michael Thomas Ford

For some reason Mondays bring the most reader mail. I don't know if it's because people have more time over the weekend and...

Stories Change Lives

by Eugenia Kim

The North Korean capture and Clinton-assisted release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee brought a compelling human element into a conflict that...

The Best Way to Get Me to...

by Matthew Michael Hanlon

Now I know, or at least I should know, by now, never, ever to promise anything. Even in that off-handed kind of way....

AMAZON BESTSELLER BEST SELLER DAY DECEMBER 9––HERE...

by Sandy O Nathan

My Amazon Bestseller Best seller Book Party is coming right up: December 9 2008. I’m doing one of those “bust into the Amazon...

Elegant, lyrical, a universal voice - A...

by Yerra Sugarman

The Bag of Broken Glass 5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant, lyrical, a universal voice......., June 8, 2008By Laurel Johnson (Nebraska USA) -...

Writers Unite, or Why I'm Tired of...

by Sue Guiney

I woke up this morning, looked at my diary, and it clearly said "write blog." I knew exactly what I was going to...

Erika Mailman Influences: Someone once said all authors are reinventing the books they read when they were in fifth grade. For me, that's true to a large extent. I was a voracious bookworm...