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May.03.2012
[Before I tell the whole story, I hope you’ll sign up for our several-hour workshop beginning next Tuesday, May 8th, 2012! It’s a conference call so you can participate from anywhere in the world, called “Bestseller Bootcamp: Write Your Book in 100 Hours.”]
What’s the big secret—what is this...
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Nov.19.2011
I'm annoyed that, despite my best intentions, I forgot to mark the tenth anniversary on November 6th of what is still my favorite single hour of television, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More With Feeling." I've watched it dozens of times, talked about it endlessly with friends...
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Oct.24.2011
I wouldn't have been interested in writing if I hadn't been a reader first, and I wouldn't have joined the Red Room Team if I hadn't been interested in the authors behind the books. I used to get tongue-tied when I'd meet my literary heroes. Now, because of my job, I get to interact with hundreds...
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Sep.09.2011
It all started with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and Hugo Weaving lip-synching "I've Never Been to Me" in the opening scene. In the 1977 pop ballad, one-hit wonder Charlene sings wistfully about all the places her loveless jet-set life has taken her:
"Oh, I've been to...
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Aug.04.2010
This week, Red Roomers are blogging about a time when they were helped. In my email, I cited two quotes, one by the Dalai Lama ("If you can, help others...if you cannot do that, at least cause them no harm.") and another by the Buddha ("The whole secret of existence is to have no...
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May.19.2010
This week's blog topic—"My favorite popular song"—was inspired by the 40th anniversary of the breakup of the Beatles. I learned today that it's also the 30th anniversary of the suicide of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the late-'70s punk band Joy Division. After Curtis died, the remaining members...
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Nov.02.2009
BEST LUCK AND CREATIVITY TO ALL RED ROOMERS PARTICIPATING IN THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH!!
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Sep.24.2009
I was uploading some content elsewhere on Red Room just now, and wanted to add a tag. You've probably noticed that when you tag, a dropdown menu appears that suggests terms others have used that contain that word. Well, here's what dropped down when I typed woman:
A New Woman Returns
a younger...
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Aug.14.2009
I'm joining the entire Red Room community in writing a short blog post on this week's topic: "Heroes." The form and the content of the blog entry are open to personal interpretation; whether this topic calls to mind a real-life hero, a fictional character, or something else altogether, we...
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Aug.07.2009
I'm joining all of the Red Room community in writing a short blog post on this week's topic: "What are your obsessions? Your passions? Your fixations?" This topic comes to us from Red Room Author Joyce Maynard; it's an exercise she does before writing a new book, in order to see what it's really...
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Aug.06.2009
I was fascinated by Amy Stewart's new book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, which the Red Room staff picked as its first book club read. It's an entertaining compendium of plants that range from mildly irritating to truly awful that decimate...
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Jul.17.2009
Today's featured articleon Wikipediais about this treatise, published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1806. This is the title page, and it is wonderful to me for so many reasons. I'll just say here that I love the idea of a theology that is reasonable, fabulous, and true. I'm still waiting for...
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Jul.02.2009
From Dictionary.com, based on the definition from the Random House Dictionary:
nickname/ˈnɪkˌneɪm/[nik-neym] noun, verb, -named, -nam⋅ing.
1. a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of...
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May.10.2009
One of the unexpected pleasures of being an editor at Red Room has been enjoying the sweet profile photos some authors and members put up of themselves posed with a special animal. Whether it’s a beloved companion or a brief acquaintance, this a community that loves its furred, feathered, or scaled...
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Apr.17.2009
From USA Today:
"NEW YORK (AP) — Two days after Amazon said a "glitch" had caused the sales rank to be dropped from thousands of books, the numbers returned Tuesday for Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and other notable titles.
"The online...
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The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.”
—Craig Ferguson, describing Doctor Who
About Huntington
Senior Editor Huntington Sharp has a dogged commitment to le mot juste. He loves his work at Red Room "because it's like being a fly on the wall of the most brilliant salons in the world, all at the same time." Prior to his current position,...
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Huntington’s Favorite Books
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal...
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