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Brandon R Schrand
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PUBLISHED: May.01.2008

In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew themselves it was home, a place they desperately tried to hold on to and yet, after seventeen years of living there, the very place from which they...

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May.12.2011 - 11:02 am

Works Cited to be published in 2012

Just learned that my second book, with a ridiculously huge and maximalist title, will be published next year by the University of Nebraska Press. Titled, Works Cited: An...

Mar.18.2009 - 8:28 am

Yaddo or Bust

I have been offered a one month residency at Yaddo, the artist community in Saratoga Springs, New York. I will be in residence from mid-June to mid-July, and will be working on...

Mar.09.2009 - 8:55 am

2009 Get Lit! Cyber-Panel: What Keeps Me Writing?

I have been invited to read and sit on a couple of panels at the 2009 Get Lit! festival in Spokane, Washington. This year, they are hosting a cyber-panel of festival authors who...

Feb.02.2009 - 8:41 am

Essay Wins Carter Prize

My essay, “The Bone Road,” which was published in Shenandoah (Fall 2008), has just won the Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay for that magazine. Other writers who have won in...

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Mar.18.2009 - 5:49 pm

In response to: Yaddo or Bust

Thanks all!

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement! Cheers! brs

Mar.18.2009 - 11:26 am

In response to: I admit it; I'm an infidel,

Welcome back, Evelyn.

Thanks for the post. Sounds like things are going well for you! I will have to keep Blackbird in mind. I'm about 5...

Feb.03.2009 - 9:50 pm

In response to: Essay Wins Carter Prize

Thanks!

Thanks so much for the comments! I will try to post the essay if I can. I'll try to get a pdf copy of it and bring it...

Feb.02.2009 - 11:30 pm

In response to: Essay Wins Carter Prize

Thanks!

Thanks for all your kind words. I love Red Room because now I have connected with two more writers whose works I can't...

Aug.01.2008 - 6:11 pm

In response to: The Route of the Conquistadors—Buddy Levy’s first blog

Welcome to the Room of Red!

Great post, my friend. Makes me want to go to Mexico. Also makes me want to teach my students about "immersion...

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Sep.01.2008

The Enders Hotel: A Memoir

Published by School Library Journal

This memoir is a classic coming-of-age story in which the author casts himself as an antihero in the tradition of Holden Caulfield. Schrand's stories of life at the family-owned...

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Audio: Reading from The Enders Hotel

About Brandon

Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize winner, a 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students selection, and a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers...

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