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Dec.02.2008
So... I've been asked to do a little research on the best sites online, whether it be blogs, magazines, or anyplace else that conduct great author interviews. Google has been a bit of a dead end, and then I realized that I've got the best resource on the web - you!
If you wouldn't mind sending me...
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Nov.26.2008
As Author Liaison for Red Room, I’m very excited to announce that Tin House Bookshas partnered with us to be the official online home for its authors! I’d like to take a moment to introduce you to the wide variety of exceptional writers whom Tin House publishes:
Win McCormack is publisher...
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Nov.24.2008
Ok, I'll play.
The things I've done thus far are bolded.
1. Started your own blog2. Slept under the stars3. Played in a band4. Visited Hawaii5. Watched a meteor shower6. Given more than you can afford to charity7. Been to Disneyland8. Climbed a mountain9. Held a praying mantis10. Sang a solo11....
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Nov.10.2008
Much like me, this rabbit disapproves of the selection of "hypermiling" to be the "Word of the Year" by the "New Oxford American Dictionary."
Quick poll: Am I the only person who had maybe heard of the word once before, if that?
Now I know it's easy to be a critic...
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Oct.30.2008
So I was walking by a newsstand the other day when I thought I saw my book on the cover of Newsweek. Silly me!
...It's not just me is it?
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Oct.13.2008
This was my first Litquake, and it definitely won't be my last. It's nice to know that literature is still alive and thriving—you read enough news alone with your blog and you feel like no one reads anymore.
But they do! Boy, do they ever. Whether it was at LDM on Monday, hearing U.S. Poet Laureate...
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Sep.29.2008
1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car/motorcycle): Ziggy Outback
2. Your gangsta name (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Chocolate Puma
3. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Cameron Los Angeles
4. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of...
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Aug.18.2008
This is by far the Best. Prune. Ad. Ever!
Ray Bradbury hocks prunes
This is too hilarious for words. Advertisers definitely need to bring this back. I, for one, would be thrilled to see our biggest authors getting the exposure they deserve... say, Salman Rushdie selling condoms. Or Stephen King...
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Aug.12.2008
I've been very lax in posting more blogs to my Red Room page-they've been keeping me busy! I'll try and post a little more in the future, but this is particularly appropriate for my fourth blog post. It's been an exciting several months getting to know some of you in the Red Room community, and I'm...
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Jul.15.2008
Today I posted what I feel is one of the most important parts of my book: The Divorced Kids' Bill of Rights.
It seems like everyone has a Bill of Rights these days. All Americans have one in their Constitution. The Geneva Convention has a Bill of Rights for prisoners of war. And if you Google...
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Jun.18.2008
I've been thinking a lot lately about the importance of retraining your brain.
It's all too easy to fall into routines—the same breakfast bar, the same walk to work, the same delivery menus... The last couple of months, with my move from Brooklyn to San Francisco, and starting a new job, have...
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Jun.13.2008
So thank goodness I'd never heard of Blue Bottle Coffee before I started working here, or I'd have been in biiiiig trouble. Or 3 feet tall. This stuff is like the crack of coffee. And they only do double shots of espresso.
One of my friends who studied psychopharmacology told me that technically,...
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Jun.10.2008
Paris.
Paris.
Paris!
What else is there to say?
What is truly amazing is how they keep a city that sees 72 million tourists a year so damn clean! Even the merde de chiens seems to be (for the most part) off the streets, and building by building, the monuments are being scrubbed and blasted back...
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May.27.2008
Before I get too settled in here at the Red Room offices, I'm heading to Paris! My mother is taking me for my birthday, and I'm excited to catch the tail end of spring in the city of lights.
Before I go, there’s a lot to be done, of course. I've been spending the past few days getting familiar...
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May.23.2008
So it's winding up to the end of my first week here at Red Room, and I think I can safely say I made the right choice.
I'm definitely not bored. There's so much going on, as we're going to be launching tons of new features in the coming weeks. I'm still kind of learning the ropes, so I've been...
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About Max
Hi, and welcome to my Red Room homepage! Let me tell you a little bit about how I came to write my first book...
My parents got divorced when I was six, and my mother had been my father’s second marriage. (I also had three half brother’s from his first...
Max’s Favorite Books
Atomized, The Possibility of an Island, Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit, The Foundation Series, Rabbit is Rich, Man's Search For Meaning, 100 Years of Solitude, Off to...