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Feb.06.2011 - 1:14 pm
posted by Cheryl L Snell
We drown in the details— what to bring to potluck, where to meet for coffee. There’s a Starbuck’s on the corner where we once sold lemonade, our homemade sign coming apart in an attic somewhere. We...
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Nov.09.2011 - 5:24 pm
posted by Erica Jong, Ph.D.
"At the time I wrote Fear of Flying," recalls Erica Jong, "there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexual—and brought all those things together."...
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Aug.19.2011 - 1:42 pm
posted by Larry R. Smith
Here a short poem video I've made this day to share. It uses my poem WALKING A FIELD INTO EVENING which has been printed in several places, most recently in Yoga International magazine. Peace
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Apr.08.2011 - 12:06 pm
posted by Deborah Santana
Strand Book Store, New York- February 23, 2011
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Aug.03.2009 - 8:46 am
posted by John Y. Cole
Confessions of a Loyal Librarian Redroom.com presents exclusive video of John Y. Cole, a historian of the Library of Congress and founding director of its Center for the Book. John has worked at the...
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Dec.29.2010 - 9:43 pm
posted by Salman Rushdie
Celebrated author Salman Rushdie talks to NDTV's Barkha Dutt on his latest book Luka and the Fire of Life. Rushdie says his new book is a product of the strong desire of his younger son Milan.
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May.30.2011 - 2:33 pm
posted by Andrew Q Lam
Andrew Lam reads his essay, "Afghanistan Can't Wash Away Vietnam" from "New California Writing" - an anthology of writing about California by Californian Writers. He is the author of East Eats West:...
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Nov.28.2010 - 4:29 pm
posted by Midge Raymond
A cautionary tale about husband-and-wife authors, "Love in the Time of Amazon.com," by John Yunker and Midge Raymond. And a book trailer (of sorts) for The Tourist Trail by John Yunker and Forgetting...
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Jul.25.2012 - 12:36 pm
posted by China Galland
Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation documents the powerful racial conflict over the right to visit cemeteries and to know your ancestors.  This work in progress follows two...
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Jul.11.2012 - 10:34 am
posted by Sheila English
Imagine starting a company from nothing and selling it six years later for over $100 million? Finally, here’s a book about how to prosper in business and life by someone whose only advantage from...
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Jul.11.2012 - 12:11 am
posted by Zarina Zabrisky
Reading at Anger Management, Beast Crawl 2012@Paradisco. July 7th.
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Jul.11.2012 - 12:08 am
posted by Zarina Zabrisky
Reading at Zygote California 2012, July 8th.
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Jul.09.2012 - 3:05 pm
posted by Deborah Lindquist
I recently did a photoshoot of my own version of Cinderella. Since wedding dresses have been my main focus lately, I thought it would be fun to shoot a fairytale love story.  It’s a romantic...
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Jul.09.2012 - 9:50 am
posted by Michael Uslan
Is any superhero cooler than Batman? He's a crime-fighting vigilante with a tragic past, a lawless attitude, and a seemingly endless supply of high-tech gadgetry. In this fully illustrated memoir,...
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Jul.07.2012 - 11:24 am
posted by Annie Frame
A strange wiches tale. Hercularrose is dead and has been many times, but this time she yearns to evolve, but to do so she must revisit all she has left behind on earth. Each vacated...
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Jul.05.2012 - 4:23 am
posted by Justus Roux
  Ferocity in which he loves- Master Alejandro wants his former submissive Angel back. He needs him, wants to possess him, and will do anything to get him back. Angel is his, will always be his...
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Jul.04.2012 - 2:49 pm
posted by Parthenia Hicks
Los Gatos Poet Laureate, Parthenia M. Hicks, reads her poem, Rare Volumes, written for the grand opening of the Los Gatos Library, February 2012.
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Jun.29.2012 - 4:11 pm
posted by Tom Wagner
Colleagues and Friends! I want to share an infomercial I wrote and directed under freelance contract for MidnightGigs.com, which turned out quite well, especially given the limitations (e.g. small...
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Oct.20.2009 - 3:28 am
posted by Geling Yan
Short feature on Yan Geling in Chinese on Beautiful Life TV, October 19, 2009. It mainly covers a Chinese-language talk she gave in Taipei in April 2009. Full recorded text of that talk is...
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Aug.02.2012 - 6:16 pm
posted by Daniel Wolff
Little opening salvo for new book.
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Jan.15.2008 - 3:40 pm
posted by Lori Hope
Lori Hope, author of the book Help Me Live: 20 Things People With Cancer Want You to Know, gives a talk at UCSF on November 17, 2006. The event titled "Lung Cancer: New Insights, New Hope,...
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Nov.29.2008 - 2:33 am
posted by Courtney V. Cowart
On the Third Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, sacred citizen Courtney Cowart and community organizer, Shakoor Aljuwani discuss moral issues related to the just recovery of New Orleans, and where...
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Dec.10.2007 - 3:59 pm
posted by Joan Blades
This segment includes input from various sources on topics such as inequity in the workplace and poverty as they relate to children and working mothers.
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Sep.04.2009 - 11:51 am
posted by Po Bronson
Po Bronson argues that when it comes to raising children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas. Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children, written with Ashley Merryman, describes why that...
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May.07.2008 - 2:26 pm
posted by Andrew Sean Greer
Novelist Andrew Sean Greer ("The Confessions of Max Tivoli") talks with Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) about his new novel, "The Story of a Marriage." Their conversation takes place at the old Cliff...
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Jul.06.2008 - 2:19 pm
Author Robert Anthony Siegel reads from his novel, All Will Be Revealed, and shows period photographs from the world of the book: 19th century erotic photography, Spiritualism, and Polar exploration...
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Apr.10.2008 - 1:02 am
posted by Kevin Simmonds
Poet & writer Kwame Dawes interviewed African-American women in Sumter, South Carolina about their lives growing up in the Jim Crow South. He transformed those recollections into poems and I set...
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Jun.20.2008 - 1:08 pm
posted by Peter Trachtenberg
A Bengali-language interpretation of the Allen Ginsberg poem, "September on Jessore Road"
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