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Stephen Kaufman

Acceptance of Ease and Grace

One of the most difficult things that anyone has to deal with is the acceptance of personal good delivered with ease and grace....
Diane Chamberlain

Balderdash!

I drove down the long gravel driveway to the Weymouth mansion Thursday afternoon with a prayer of gratitude on my lips. Coming here...
Tony Anders

Why do you write daddy?

     “Why do you write Daddy?” asked my five year old son. My answer did not soon follow as a simple “I dunno”...
kasmik zenter

MS.MONTIER'S MAGIC MINTS

Georgia is among 28 states considered to be a right to work state, which really means your employer has free rein to fire...
Nina Amir

How to Publicize your Book: Getting Started

Many would-be nonfiction authors make the mistake of not beginning to think about publicity for their book until after they have written it....
Barbara Szerlip

John Lennon, Literary Quipster

     Recently, I watched tapes of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's appearances on the Dick Cavett Show.The first one, on September 11,...
Heather Koelle

Saturday thoughts

I awoke to a beautiful sunny day today,after finally getting a decent night's sleep.Enjoyed a solo yoga class today,as nobody else showed up.My...
beverley brahic

Metro

This morning early I went to the Cité Universitaire for Helene Cixous's seminar, cutting through the Luxembourg Garden on my way to the...
J.P. Smith

Reading the World

As I get older I find that I read less and less contemporary fiction and either go to older works I’d overlooked or...
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  • Erika Mailman
    Erika Mailman Influences: Someone once said all authors are reinventing the books they read when they were in fifth grade. For me, that's true to a large extent. I was a voracious bookworm...
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Red Room Well Red

Weekly Blog Topic: My Favorite Cities

The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler. The Paris of Ernest Hemingway. The Berlin of Christopher Isherwood. The San Francisco of Dashiell Hammett or...
Ivory Madison

Democrats Eat Babies on Christmas, Institute Says

[This story originally ran in a major news outlet that shall remain nameless. Okay, I made it up in response to a story...

Overheard In the Red Room

"I need (books) the way arteries need blood, the way teenagers need Twitter, the way the BBC needs Helen Mirren."

-- Kyla Perry