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May.19.2013 - 11:24 am
posted by Andrew Q Lam
Journeys to American Identities with Andrew Lam.. Andrew Lam is an editor with New America Media and the author of three books,Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora,...
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May.17.2013 - 10:06 am
posted by Laurel Anne Hill
This slide-show video by Laurel Anne Hill takes a fun, humorous peek at the awesome stories in the anthology, HOW BEER SAVED THE WORLD, all set to music that would have made Indiana Jones...
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May.17.2013 - 8:19 am
posted by Leonie Mateer
Sales Tips and Secrets
from the Author of "The Caboodles Blueprint"
How to get your product IDEA on Target, Wal-Mart, K-Mart and more....
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May.16.2013 - 6:44 pm
posted by Zarina Zabrisky
Zarina Zabrisky is reading her story "Zigzag Lady" at Word Performances series, San Francisco.
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May.16.2013 - 9:19 am
posted by Barbara Froman
A little companion piece to go with Rental Property.
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May.13.2013 - 1:20 pm
posted by Robert Wrigley
Half a dozen poems from Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems.
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May.12.2013 - 9:22 pm
posted by Zarina Zabrisky
Lara Genovese peforms Zarina Zabrisky's short story "Wanderlust" at Liars' League HK, Hong Kong.
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May.11.2013 - 4:48 pm
posted by Terry Spear
In the heat of the jungle, jaguars are clawed, dangerous, and hungry for love. With hopes of overcoming night terrors and thanking the man who saved her life, Kathleen McKnight returns to the Amazon...
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May.10.2013 - 6:55 pm
posted by Kristen Caven
Kristen Caven reads the "glass slipper" passage at her picnic lawn-lawnch-lunch party at Lake Merritt in Oakland.
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Feb.25.2008 - 9:51 am
posted by Tim Wise
This is a clip from The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality, the newly released video from the Media Education Foundation. The video is of a speech given by Tim...
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May.29.2010 - 12:01 pm
posted by Tayari Jones
This was my very first television interview. Look how young I was! The topic was my first novel, LEAVING ATLANTA, which was about my experiences growing up during the Atlanta Child Murders.
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Dec.07.2010 - 12:28 pm
posted by Salman Rushdie
Sir Salman Rushdie slaps down Yusuf Islam, the singer-songwriter who said he supported the fatwa calling for Rushdie's execution. Also, Rushdie's plans to write a memoir on why he won't be silenced.
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May.09.2008 - 4:59 pm
posted by Ishmael Reed
On April 21, 2008, redroom.com authors Peter Coyote, David Ewing Duncan, Bill Hayes, Ishmael Reed, Belle Yang joined redroom.com founder and CEO Ivory Madison at the Commonwealth Club in San...
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Apr.17.2013 - 10:01 am
posted by Richard Goodman
This video describes Storyville, a unique collaboration between the MFA writing students at the University of New Orleans and WWNO Public Radio, the local NPR station in New Orleans.
Put simply,...
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Oct.26.2011 - 5:34 pm
posted by Ishmael Reed
On Wed Oct 12 11, Litquake presented Ishmael Reed with its annual Barbary Coast Award in honor of his long-standing contributions to the Bay Area literary scene. Hosted by W. Kamau Bell, friends/...
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Nov.22.2011 - 7:28 pm
posted by Jo Maeder
As the late great announcer Don LaFontaine might have said: "In a world of mothers and daughters, where Sex & The City glamour collides with a doll-loving hoarder, a love story like no other is...
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Jan.25.2010 - 1:50 pm
posted by Naseem Rakha
A prose/poem written by Naseem Rakha. In Sands a war correspondent attempts to lose herself and her memories in Oman's endless dunes.
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Aug.14.2008 - 1:22 pm
posted by Maya Angelou
The comments shock jock Don Imus made about the Rutgers women's basketball team sparked off a national debate about the power of words. Poet Maya Angelou joins Russ Mitchell to discuss. (CBSNews.com)
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Jul.09.2008 - 9:33 am
posted by Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed sits down at his 1915 upright piano while he plays Tadd Dameron's "If You Could See Me Now."
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