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Jun.07.2013
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor.” –Raymond Chandler
Of course, long before Philip Marlowe’s...
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May.24.2013
(Updated June 15, 2013)
“Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.” –Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Austen neatly characterizes the...
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May.13.2013
New Red Room author Barbara Coloroso may be the only expert on both parenting and genocide. Her forty years of experience studying parenting, teaching, bullying, grieving, and nonviolent conflict resolution has led to six books, including, The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander and Extraordinary...
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Apr.24.2013
“I don’t deserve this award. But I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” –Jack Benny
After the Pulitzer committee’s failure to award a prize for fiction in 2012, Stanford writing professor Adam Johnson was awarded the 2013 prize for his novel of North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son....
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Apr.02.2013
“We need the tonic of wildness...We can never have enough of nature...We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.” –Walden, Henry David Thoreau
In this week's Red Letter, Red Room Executive Editor Gina Misiroglu writes about how she talked...
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Mar.19.2013
Did you know that William Styron put the finishing touches on Sophie’s Choice while vacationing on Salt Cay in the Bahamas? Or that Anne Morrow Lindbergh worked on Gift from the Sea during a visit to Salt Cay?
I wish we all could practice our craft on this beautiful private Bahamian island. Maybe...
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Mar.04.2013
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." –Walt Disney
While books had been published specifically for children’s education and entertainment since at least the 1600s, the genre boomed in the 19th century with increases in population, literacy, and ease of...
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Feb.04.2013
(Updated Feb. 19th, 2013)
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.” –Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and communications theorist
We’ve launched the most useful, literary classifieds section ever—Red Room Classifieds! We hope you’ll post an ad (it’s only $5.00 for two weeks...
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Jan.08.2013
(Updated February 5th, 2013.)
It's a new year, and we're excited about all the new books that are slated to be released in 2013. In January, we asked to read about what books you're looking forward to buying in bookstore, downloading for your e-reader, checking out from the library, or borrowing...
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Nov.26.2012
(Updated January 9th, 2013)
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are thinking.” –Jerry Seinfeld
Last holiday season, the American Booksellers Association reported that books—the paper kind—made a comeback. The independent bookstores tracked by the Association...
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Nov.13.2012
(Updated January 10th, 2013)
Don Corleone: Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Johnny Fontane: Sure I do. Don Corleone: Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
–The Godfather (1972), screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
The same...
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Oct.23.2012
(Updated January 10, 2013.)
For more than nine hundred years, Paris has been one of the world’s foremost centers of learning, the arts, and international politics. This history, combined with the particularly French interest in chivalry and courtly love, have given the city the reputation of being...
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Oct.05.2012
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” –Charlemagne
The European Emperor Charlemagne said that at a time when the opportunity to learn a foreign language—or to learn to read or write one’s own—was rare. These days, it’s reported that 53% of Europeans can speak a foreign language....
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Sep.12.2012
(Updated October 9th, 2012.)
If you’re an author, traditionally or self-published, you can now sell your eBooks on Red Room! If you’re a reader, you’ll now be able to buy eBooks on Red Room in all formats (for your iPad, Nook, or Kindle Fire, even to read on your computer or print out). To...
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Aug.20.2012
Click here for the "my first eBook" blog challenge.
(Updated September 4th, 2012.)
One disadvantage of self-publishing's new popularity is that publishers, reviewers, and bookstores have don't often act as filters of self-published books; these days, it’s harder to find out what’s good. In August,...
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