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Jungle Red Writers – Why didn’t I know about this before?

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January 18, 2012
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How fun this this? Some of my favorite authors (especially Hallie Ephron, who teaches and speaks at the Willamette Writers Conference) who get together and blog about books and Downton Abbey and food (lobster bisque recipe, anyone?) It’s super entertaining. They took their name from the nail polish in the play The Women by Clare Boothe Luce....
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Tillie Olsen…You would think with my Reed education…

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September 1, 2011
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  …I would have heard of this woman. Yet I never have. A friend (after reading one of my previous posts about writing and of course not commenting on the blog so that it looks good and gives me a higher count on my statistics…not that I’m bitter…) recommended this book to me. It...
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I really have got to stop reading these end of the world books.

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August 31, 2011
Life and death

Another one from Ward and Brownlee. A “sequel”, they call it, to Rare Earth. I’m going to have to make these extinction books their own category. “How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day” should be its name. Earth is a middle-aged woman, run ragged by her hundreds of children, asshole of a husband, and...
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Reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker and suddenly I adore poetry.

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June 8, 2011
Reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker and suddenly I adore poetry.

It’s for a book club. The Radicals book club, I believe it’s called. I don’t know why it’s called that, except to possibly distinguish it from the other non-Radicals book club that the friend who invited me to join also has. (Wow. Was something dangling in that sentence or is it just me? OK....
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Literary Arts steps it up–drinking and Delve!

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May 27, 2011
Literary Arts steps it up–drinking and Delve!

Once again, Literary Arts has impressed me by improving one of my favorite programs that they offer. If you haven’t tried Delve, you really should. I’ve only done one of the seminars (Virginia Woolf’s The Waves a few years ago), but it was amazing and I really need to do another. It made me...
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