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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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Oct.16.2012 - 10:15 pm
Death isn't the end of love; Katie Newman, grief-stricken over losing her father, knows this. Everyday she hopes for some kind of impossible resolution. Fate intercedes, not by supplying her father...
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Oct.16.2012 - 10:19 am
posted by Maria Semple
Los Angeles Times' Carolyn Kellogg interviews Where'd You Bernadette author Maria Semple.
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Oct.16.2012 - 4:02 am
posted by Larry R. Smith
Here are two poem video segments from a film we did on American poet and artist, Kenneth Patchen...a midwest and working-class hero. The film Kenneth Patchen: An Art of Engagement was made by Tom...
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Oct.14.2012 - 11:37 am
posted by R. Barri Flowers
Aloha!   From bestselling and award winning crime writer R. Barri Flowers comes two riveting Hawaii mysteries, MURDER IN MAUI: A Leila Kahana Mystery and MURDER IN HONOLULU: A Skye Delaney...
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Oct.14.2012 - 11:31 am
posted by R. Barri Flowers
The bestselling true crime anthology, MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre, edited by award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers,  is now in eBook and print. It...
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Oct.14.2012 - 11:25 am
posted by R. Barri Flowers
New video trailer on the bestselling legal thrillers, PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE, STATE'S EVIDENCE, and JUSTICE SERVED, by award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers, now available in audio and eBook
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Oct.14.2012 - 11:20 am
posted by R. Barri Flowers
 The haunting YA ghost mystery novel bestseller, GHOST GIRL IN SHADOW BAY, by R. Barri Flowers is now in eBook, print, and audio. Teen tries to solve decades old murder mystery with help of a...
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Oct.14.2012 - 11:13 am
posted by R. Barri Flowers
In the time honored tradition of such beloved novels as Bridges of Madison County, The Notebook, The Lost Valentine, Summer Harbor, and Class Reunion, as well as the new hit Meryl Streep movie, Hope...
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Oct.14.2012 - 11:07 am
posted by R. Barri Flowers
THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego, internationally bestselling true crime book, by R. Barri Flowers, is #1 on Kindle's Bestseller List on Offenders...
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Oct.13.2012 - 9:10 am
posted by Susan Fleet
Murder and revenge in New Orleans. Vol. 3 in the Frank Renzi mystery series. TWO MURDERS TWENTY YEARS APART.  1988: Ten-year-old Natalie is devastated when police find her call girl mother...
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Oct.05.2012 - 5:02 pm
posted by Justin Chin
Justin Chin reads a poem he wrote in response to the artwork, "Absence of God VII," 2008 by Raqib Shaw. This work is in the exhibition "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" (on view at...
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May.22.2008 - 4:06 pm
In this hour long video, Maxine Hong Kingston reads some excerpts of her work as well as answers questions from the audience.
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Jul.24.2010 - 7:15 am
posted by Ilie Ruby
This was taken from my balcony of my hotel in NYC moments before book launch. "I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you a little about my book...."
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Jan.26.2012 - 10:02 pm
posted by Mitch Cullin
Filmmaker Peter I. Chang trains his camera on his partner Mitch Cullin who, several years after the fact, recalls his 2005 book tour around the U.S. with candid insight about the following...
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Sep.26.2011 - 5:25 pm
posted by Aberjhani
"Angel of Peace" by Aberjhani has been described as poem number 5 in the author's "Songs of the Angelic Gaze" series and was published in the book THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS. Some of the text in this...
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Feb.14.2011 - 3:59 pm
posted by Kim Addonizio
from a reading at City Lights Books in San Francisco, with T-Wrex on guitar, from my new poetry collection Lucifer at the Starlite (W.W. Norton).
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Oct.03.2012 - 10:16 pm
Kirsten Imani Kasai reads selections from her new e-book "Rhapsody in Snakeskin: Tales of Erotic Horror" at Writers with Drinks at the Make-Out Room, San Francisco, CA. March 2012.
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Dec.28.2007 - 6:22 pm
posted by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert appears in How Not to Communicate with the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. Also in the sketch are  young unknowns Paul Dinello and Aliza Shalowitz. This piece was written,...
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Sep.19.2012 - 7:40 am
posted by Cliff Burns
A short, experimental film, partly shot during one of the worst summer storms I've ever seen. A thriller of sorts, an atmospheric and disturbing vignette. Images and words by Cliff Burns.
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Aug.05.2012 - 12:25 pm
posted by Mary Wilkinson
It was suppose to be a photograph!
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