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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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Dec.15.2008 - 7:33 am
posted by Allen P. Adamson
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Dec.14.2008 - 8:42 pm
posted by Steven Gripp
This is DFW discussing his failure of language - he posits lack of understanding in a foreign language can be both a good and bad thing.
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Dec.14.2008 - 2:35 pm
posted by Chris Townsend
Many have argued that the true spirit of Christmas is not giving, but consumerism in which corporations delude us into buying what ever it is they have to sell. I actually don't think consumption...
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Dec.12.2008 - 5:05 pm
posted by Jena Pincott
CBS Early Show on "Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?" and the Science of Romance and MHC genes
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Dec.12.2008 - 2:05 am
posted by Angela K Nickerson
Travel to Florence and Rome, the most romantic places in the world, this Valentine’s Day: February 11-22, 2009. Come along with KCRA’s former television anchors, Dave Walker and Lois Hart, as they...
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Dec.11.2008 - 8:44 pm
posted by Patricia V. Davis
The author of Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece shows us how to make the infamous Italian pasta sauce for which her book is titled.
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Jul.21.2009 - 8:56 pm
posted by Irene Zutell
This is the trailer for my new novel, Pieces of Happily Ever After (St. Martin's) due out September 1, 2009.
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Jan.20.2010 - 3:45 pm
posted by Sandra Beasley
Sandra Beasley reads "Vocation" from I WAS THE JUKEBOX: POEMS, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize and forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2010. For more information visit www.sandrabeasley.com
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Jan.30.2010 - 5:52 am
posted by Anne Brooke
When Jacob meets an unknown woman in a cafe, he begins a series of sensual encounters, the like of which he has never experienced before. During that summer, he learns many things but, when autumn...
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Feb.25.2010 - 10:26 pm
posted by Rosemary Graham
Singer/songwriter Leah Andreone's "Never Stop Trying" provides a perfectly ambiguous soundtrack for this sneak peek of Stalker Girl.
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May.03.2010 - 1:38 am
I hike up my dress and with the hem laced with one hand, I run around and around, back and forth, in circles like a dog, until I fall on the floor. I sink my nose deep in my shoulder, breathing in...
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Jul.28.2010 - 7:13 am
posted by Paul Lobo Portuges
Poetry video adapted from Paul Portuges poem, "To My Beloved," about Kai-hui, Mao's second wife, before she was assassinated by the Nationalists because she would not renounce her marriage to Mao...
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Sep.23.2010 - 1:47 pm
posted by Jen Hill
Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over. Multiple award...
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Dec.02.2010 - 11:54 pm
posted by Sheila English
Sovereign Power. Eternal Pleasure. Set amid the dazzling court intrigues of Elizabethan England, this sumptuous, dark new series reveals the never before seen diaries of a young and passionate Queen...
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