Tag: reading
member name: Eric D. Goodman
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January 23, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
Why are you here? That is, why did you become a member of the Gather community and why are you here on the site now?
I’m sure there are as many reasons for becoming a member . . .
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January 19, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
It's been announced by The Baltimore Review. It’s been mentioned in the Maryland Writers Association news letter, on the Write Here Write Now website, in Write and Publish Your Book and . . .
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March 25, 2007 11:28 PM EDT --
How many times have you heard it? "You should write a book about your experiences!" Or, “Your life would make a great story!” Or, maybe you feel strongly that your . . .
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January 24, 2007 10:37 AM EST --
Last night, President George W. Bush gave his first State of the Union Address to a democratic majority – and was the first to begin by addressing “Madam Speaker.”
He gave his opinion . . .
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March 22, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
My wife knows I have a mistress.
She’s okay with that.
My mistress and I engage daily,
whispering sweet nothings,
tumbling together into comfort,
easing into ecstasy, . . .
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March 28, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
A subject that often comes up when I'm talking with other book lovers is the sad fact that, although there are more writers and more books being published these days, there are fewer readers who read . . .
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April 13, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
Friday's here, and what better way to unwind after a long week than with a good beer?
This round's on me.
If you haven't already, stop by the link below and enjoy a tall . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
I’d like to thank you — valued readers, friends, colleagues, otherwise-connected people — for faithfully reading my posts here at Gather. Not just my weekly Lit Bit, but all . . .
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September 05, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Are you in the mood for a little romance? You couldn’t have picked a better time. Spring may not be in the air, but you wouldn’t know it judging by the number of romantic writings . . .
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November 07, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
I’m published in the Fall issue of JMWW . Give me a high five!
JMWW is a popular online literary journal based in Baltimore that publishes “the best fiction, . . .
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November 21, 2007 02:30 PM EST --
When I met Alice McDermott for the first time, it was at a craft lecture she was presenting at The Writers’ Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The topic of the craft lecture . . .
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April 11, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
For many, bedtime is the best time of the day. Not for the sleeping, but for all that happens before sleep comes. Exciting things can transpire at the end of a long day in a comfortable . . .
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January 26, 2007 03:03 PM EST --
Well, not literally. But legislation on the table in California would make spanking illegal in the state. So the government is at least slapping the hands of parents who spank their children. . . .
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February 20, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
Do you ever get depressed about literacy in decline? There's a steady trend, year after year, that fewer people read for pleasure -- especially when it comes to fiction and poetry.
But this Presidents' . . .
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March 12, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
Or Rather, John Camp went to Sandford. The two Johns are one and the same. One name is his given, the other he uses for marketing reasons.
John’s not alone. Other . . .
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March 27, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
John Irving was a writer before he had children. But he admits that having a child at an early age changed his world view – as is the case for most parents. For Irving, this . . .
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April 12, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
One of America’s great authors, Kurt Vonnegut, has died.
Vonnegut was one of the most influential American authors of his generation. Some of his best-known works include . . .
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May 01, 2007 12:20 PM EDT --
I’d like to offer my sincerest congratulations to the worthy winners who made the cut to round three of the Gather First Chapters Writing Competition.
To have been selected as a semi-finalist . . .
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May 25, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
Can you believe that Star Wars is 30 years old today? The original movie blasted into theaters on May 25, 1977 — three decades ago.
And it seems like just a couple years ago . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
The latest issue of The Baltimore Review is available at bookstores, or you can order your copy online. Inside you’ll find my own story, “Out for a Walk.”
The . . .
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