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March 9, 2021 Book Club / Books

The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon [Book Club]

For March 2021, the NOLA Book Club will be reading The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon (published June 9, 2020).

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March 9, 2021 From The Editor's Desk

Notice anything different?

March 2021. A year of sitting home in Los Angeles for COVID, and about three years since I’ve changed the

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March 5, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Getting Words on the Page: Writing Routines

Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different

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March 1, 2021 Editor's Toolkit

Organizational Tips: How to Print on Index Cards

Are you a plotter or a pantser? If you plot, do you use post it notes, grocery receipts, notebooks or

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February 17, 2021 Book Club / Books

Facilitating Discussion: Book Club General Questions

We’ve all been there at book club, ready to talk about the story, the characters, the plot… then silence. How

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February 15, 2021 Book Club / Books

We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin – [Book Club]

We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Published 1/29/2019 Interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin: https://therumpus.net/2019/03/the-rumpus-interview-with-maurice-carlos-ruffin/ Element of Sacrifice: Interview

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February 12, 2021 Book Club / Books

Why Book Club?

The Bibliofile (https://the-bibliofile.com/) has said “a good book club book generally needs to be at least somewhat accessible, have some

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February 12, 2021 Book Club / Books

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom [A Book Club Discussion]

The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom Published: 2019-08-13New York: Grove Press — Currently reading this for @BookNOLA club choice for

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February 11, 2021 book lists / Books

2021 books I want to read (TBR) list

The new year is the perfect time to set new reading goals! This is my “want to read” list, my “TBR”

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February 10, 2021 Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy / Literature

Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy, part 2

Welcome back for Literary Gastronomy, Part 2. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

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January 13, 2021 Books / Fictional Feast / Literary Gastronomy

Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy, part 1

Virginia Woolf, who placed much emphasis upon dining within her works, famously said that “one cannot think well, love well,

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December 30, 2020 From The Editor's Desk / Literature / Travel

Literary Tour: New Orleans

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

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November 28, 2020 From The Editor's Desk / Words

Favorite Words, Recommenced…

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

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October 20, 2020 Quote / Writing

Writing Tip: Facts

Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts.  The writer’s first business is to get at these facts exactly —get

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October 8, 2020 History

Pandemics and Quarantine Through the Ages

What a long, strange trip it’s been since March 2020, when the latest pandemic has hit the country, Coronavirus (COVID-19).

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