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Rosemary DiBattista
Rosemary DiBattista
Fanwood, NJ
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 03/15/2010
Last update : 03/07/2010
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  • A Jersey girl born and bred, I'm proud to call my feisty little state home. Though I live in the suburbs, my heart is at the shore, which provides the setting for much of my work. An English teacher for almost twenty years, I've also published a non-fiction book and several articles, but it was only recently that I turned to fiction. My first novel, a romantic comedy, is currently out on submission.

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  • Native New Yorker, Not

    March 7, 2010

    •   When I was eight years old, my parents took us to see the Ice Capades in Madison Square Garden. Even then I had the sense that going to the city was exciting and special, and required a certain look. I wore my new mohair sweater, a favorite pleated skirt, and was just about to buckle up my patent leather Mary Janes when my mother stopped me, insisting that due to slushy street conditions, I ...
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  • Congratulations, Sujatha

    February 16, 2010

    • This entry is dedicated to my friend, Sujatha Hampton, whose novel As It Was Written is launching this week. I meet Sujatha at a writers' conference in New York in the fall of 2007, for four days of palm-sweating and heart-stopping meetings with editors to pitch our novels. From the moment Sujatha read her pitch about Dr. Nair and his "five fat daughters," and the family curse which ...
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  • Twelfth Night

    January 10, 2010

    •   Last Wednesday my family and I took down our Christmas decorations. It happened to fall on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, also known as Twelfth Night. There is a long-standing tradition of taking down the Christmas tree during the Epiphany, in yet another holiday conflation of the secular and the holy. But there was nothing remotely divine about Wednesday evening.I defrosted the last of ...
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  • In Praise of Unfamous Women

    December 17, 2009

    •   At holiday time I try to remember the people in my working life whose presence I tend to take for granted. The women cited below however, are worth a darn sight more than a votive candle or a modestly priced bottle of wine:My hair stylist. It may be shallow, but every woman knows the value of a damn good haircut, and for that I count on my girl Barbie. Don't let the name fool you-Barbie's wit ...
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  • Guilty Pleasures: Where the Boys Are

    November 15, 2009

    •   Turner Classic Movies showed this 60s chestnut last evening, and I must say that I have always loved this cheesy throwback. The first time I saw this movie, I must have been around 12. I stayed up late to sneak-watch it (sound turned way down) on the tiny black and white television in my room. And here is what I learned: Nice girls who stay nice get to marry millionaires. And nice girls who go ...
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