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53rd INSTALLMENT : 12/6/08 DELUXE installment featuring EIGHT fresh new essays!

Mantooth
by Leslie Nipkow
(Pieces have appeared in the New York Times and the book Talk to Me: Monologue Plays (Vintage Books); Emmy award-winning daytime TV writer; Actress, played Erica Kane’s prison guard on All My Children.)

Running on Empty
by Julia Borcherts
(Frequent contributor to Time Out Chicago and Chicago Tribune; featured in books including Sin: A Deadly Anthology and Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting till Next Year.)

Vigilanthony
by Anthony Del Broccolo
(TV writer, Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh and Zoey 101; ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats; Lil' Bush for Comedy Central.)

Family F'ing Ties!
by Robin Shorr
(TV writer, Samantha Who?, Fox's The Loop, NBC's Teachers, Glenn Martin DDS for Nick at Nite; Cartoon voiceover artist, The Replacements, Techies.)

Isn't it Romantic?
by Tobly McSmith
(Co-created two off-Broadway plays BAYSIDE! and BAYSIDE 2! Electric Screechio; has written for Poise Magazine.)

Plan B
by Molly Each
(Contributor Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Time Out Chicago; Co-founder and editor of No Touching Magazine. )

You Think G-D Would Have Given you Hair Like That if He Loved You?
by Deborah Stoll
(TV/movie writer; contributes arts pieces to The Economist's on-line literary magazine More Intelligent Life.)

Please Form Line Here
by Meredith Hoffa
(Essays in The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, and upcoming book Rejected (Villard); Journalist, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; Performer, at the Groundlings and Upright Citizen's Brigade.)

54-61 INSTALLMENT : 11/5/09 - 1/21/10 Mini installments featuring one new essay a month!

#54
Cheese Mover
by Jeremy Deutchman
(Frequent contributor on the L.A. story salon scene -- Show and Tell, Tongue & Groove, WordPlay, and Piñata; piece in book Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled (Villard, 2009).)

#55
Why Not(e)?
by Lauren Marks
(Award-winning writer currently working on a memoir entitled A Stitch of Time: Diary of an Aphasiac.)

#56
Means of Support
by Caroline Bicks
(Pieces have been included in the book and show Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine (St. Martin's Press), and on NPR's "All Things Considered.")

#57
Shiny Happy Pirate
by Alex Moody
(Pursuing an MFA in fiction at Vanderbilt University; posts his random musings on his blog MoodyTunes.)

#58
How to Be a Third Wheel
When it Comes to Dating, Three's Company, too -- Here's Why
by Matt Sullivan
(Writing has appeared in Black Book, Salon, and the book Six Word Memoirs On Love And Heartbreak (Harper Perennial, 2009).)

#59
Santa Claus is Coming to Town...NOT
by Sarah Khan
(Editor, Travel + Leisure magazine; writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, and more.)

#60
Witness Protection
by Scott Saltzburg
(Has written for Hollywood Squares and shows on NBC, CBS, TLC, GSN, Planet Green, and more.)

#61
Cool
by Jeannine Pitas
(Writing has appeared online in Ghoti, Flashquake, Boxcar Poetry Review and Hackwriters.)