New Orleans
November 22, 2009
- http://www.kevinsimmonds.com is getting better. I didn't get the Center for Cultural Innovation grant but I'm moving forward. Suppose I gotta get my work out into the world no matter what.
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October 23, 2009
- A timely blog topic in Red Room this week, to write about our favorite cities.I started out in Cleveland, a city that inspires jokes. After that, things got better. I spent a good part of my life in Chicago, a wonderful and underrated place. I've come to love New York; my husband was born there and our older son has lived in the Village since he left for college ten years ago. I live ...
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October 6, 2009
- Let me tell you, it’s an amazing undertaking to put together a readers and writers conference that brings together the best contemporary authors, agents and editors, plus musical talent, all while honoring classic literature. But Faulkner Society’s Rosemary James and agent Michael Murphy have done just that! If you haven’t yet made your plans to attend (November 19-22) – get hustling; ...
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September 10, 2009
- BLUE CYPRESS BOOKS ~Reading ~ Signing ~ Birthday party~ Literature and Champagne Come celebrate Kristin Fouquet's birthday with a reading from her new book Twenty Stories and ...
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August 6, 2009
- There has been no shortage of news stories about how detainees have been treated at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib before it. Likewise, there has been a lot of talk about so-called enhanced alternative interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and even dogs have been used as a means to get "enemy combatants" to cooperate with intelligence interrogators, but the ...
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July 31, 2009
- Red Room member Nordette Adams is a writer who wears a number of stylish literary hats. Whether as a journalist, poet, spoken word artist, fiction writer, literary critic, or mistress of the blog, they all tend to fit with a touch of classic flare. It was my good fortune to meet Ms. Adams via the Internet some years ago when I was a stay-at-home caregiver for my mother in Savannah, Georgia, ...
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May 30, 2009
- On my first visit to New Orleans, I fell for the city the way you fall for a guy who's all wrong for you--you have nothing in common and you know he won't be sticking around for very long, but you just can't help yourself. I came home from that trip armed with Mardi Gras beads, feathered masks, beignet mix, and a CD of zydeco music, just so I could have a New Orleans fix any time I needed ...
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May 19, 2009
- Back from New Orleans, safely, after driving twelve hours through thunderstorms. Tired, but energized and eager, as these conferences always affect me. Friday Master classes: I first sat in Jess Well's class about writing credible, creative historical fiction. (I am thinking about my next book already, which may return to the civil rights era, or be set in the 1920's-1930's.) First, let me say ...
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May 14, 2009
- Today I leave for New Orleans and the Saints and Sinners conference. I love the place and I love this writer's conference, which serves as a fundraiser for NOAIDS. I'll be meeting with my publishers, Bywater Books, and that's always fun. A writer doesn't normally get many chances to meet face to face with editors and publishers.I'll also get to meet up with some friends from my Montgomery days ...
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April 13, 2009
- It's bittersweet to be back in New Orleans. Our last visit was in 2005, a few months before Katrina.I'm writing from the funky guesthouse in the Lower Garden District where we'd stayed several times in the past, when our boys were young. It's the same--and not. I can still see signs of storm damage. Ruby, an older African American woman who presided over the breakfast (good, though ...
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