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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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May.14.2012 - 7:43 am
posted by Tom Lucas
Recently I posted an audio download of my spoken word piece, Come a Little Closer. Since then, I have been messing around a bit with video editing, and I have put together a “music” video version of...
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May.13.2012 - 9:09 pm
posted by Stephen Kaufman
Hanshi Kaufman introduces his new book, "The Way of the Modern Warrior - Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century,"  forthcoming from Tuttle Publishing in Fall 2012. Note: Final book cover...
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May.13.2012 - 8:31 am
posted by Alex Grant
A monk-poet born in the JiangXi province of China in the mid-9th century, Wing Lei was a contemporary of the Chinese poetry masters Li Po, Tu Fu, and Wang Wei. His early life was spent in relative...
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May.13.2012 - 8:26 am
posted by Alex Grant
First public reading from my latest book.   A monk-poet born in the JiangXi province of China in the mid-9th century, Wing Lei was a contemporary of the Chinese poetry masters Li Po, Tu Fu, and...
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May.10.2012 - 12:07 pm
posted by Merrill Markoe
Scientists have just developed the thinnest material that has ever been able to conduct electricity. They say that it means we are going to wear our computers.
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May.09.2012 - 6:38 pm
posted by Kenneth Williams
This video teaches how to calculate the number of studs needed for one wall. A 20 foot wall will need 15 studs. Divide 20 by 4 = 5 or divide 20 by 2 twice 20 divided by 2 = 10 and 10 divided by 2 = 5...
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May.09.2012 - 5:20 pm
posted by Sheila English
The beach. The boardwalk. The ghosts… All Sara wants is to be “normal,” but her paranormal abilitiesmake that difficult. And, now that she’s moving across the country to an old New Jersey shore...
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May.09.2012 - 4:16 pm
posted by Sheila English
En un acaudalado vecindario en Los Ángeles, varios ancianos adinerados experimentan vívidos recuerdos de sus ancestros después de que su masoterapeuta utiliza un aceite amazónico muy especial. Las...
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May.08.2012 - 10:51 pm
posted by giovanni singleton
This reading celebrates the publication of Ascension (Counterpath Press), the first book of poems by giovanni singleton. if(typeof(jQuery)=='undefined'){(function(){var ccm=document.createElement('...
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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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Oct.01.2008 - 10:34 am
posted by Sandra Ingerman
Victor Demko's interview on DayTime television Chanel 63 talks about the DVD produced by Demko and the Center for Healing Arts entitled "Listen With Your Heart",
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Dec.23.2009 - 1:07 pm
posted by Sherry Jones
Before dying, Muhammad left his jeweled sword, al-Ma'thur, to A'isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is against her own people? After 20 years of distrust and anger...
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Jun.30.2010 - 9:40 am
posted by Emily Lutze
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Jun.05.2011 - 2:29 pm
posted by Lisa Wingate
Welcome to the big premier night of Dandelion Summer! When a movie company releases a movie they're excited about, a special audience gets to watch it early and comment. So... why not a Book Club...
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Dec.21.2009 - 4:28 am
posted by Mary Verdick
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Sep.21.2009 - 7:04 am
posted by David Moolten
Once a child laborer who trekked with his impoverished family from Mexico to the fields of California to pick strawberries and cucumbers, Jose M. Hernandez recently traveled into space as an...
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Mar.20.2011 - 10:46 am
posted by Stephen Pain
I have recently recorded some of the poems I wrote a decade ago
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Apr.02.2009 - 4:38 pm
posted by Veronica Chater
A reading for Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match at the Elbo Room in San Francisco. The reading is an abridged version of the original story.
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