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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Silas House, the author of Clay’s Quilt and co-author of Something&#8217;s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountain-top Removal, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times called “My Polluted Kentucky Home.” It referred to a sit-in at the offices of governor Steve Beshear to protest his support of mountain-top removal, and said in part, Since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=1190&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a movie camera, one that stays focused on a poor family in coastal Mississippi, Claude Batiste and his four children—Randall, Skeetah, Junior and their sister Esch—in late August of 2005. Now imagine that the camera follows them everywhere for twelve days, that it never looks away. It records the poverty and the daily squalor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time I finished the first three essays in this book, words like “virtuoso” and “damn!” were coming to mind, and I started having to take breaks, where I’d walk around the house alternately bouncy with the joy of finding something so terrific to read, and thinking I’ll never, ever be this good, at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=1129&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his superbly imagined debut novel, Kevin Wilson asks what life would be like for the children of two famous 1970s-80s performance artists whose most firmly held belief was that having kids would kill their art. And you thought you had it tough, with your narcissistic mother and your insensitive, absent dad. Wait until you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=1109&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Narrative Urge. That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m talking to you. Just wanted to say thanks. In case you&#8217;re unfamiliar with him/her/them?, Narrative Urge is the anonymous presence behind Atlanta’s $10 Art Mystery letter, the first of which was originally sent to news weekly Creative Loafing’s Arts &#38; Entertainment editor, Debbie Michaud. Each letter contained a ten-dollar bill, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Otsuka works small, and slowly, with remarkable compression and artistry, and she writes in longhand, using a fountain pen. The gemlike details found in her slender, spare novels reflect her habit of writing and polishing her sentences one by one, as she has explained in interviews: You get up every day and you sit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Wall, Anthony Doerr</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just finished Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall, now out in paper. With only six stories, it seems like a slender collection, but the title story is nearly 80 pages long, and the last, “Afterworld,” runs to 55 pages. Although they’re clearly the two powerhouses of this collection, what I came away liking best were two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=992&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always wondered what could take writers away from their blogs for so long that their readers (all 14 of you! sob!) stop checking back for new posts. Most bloggers claim work-related issues, or a new baby, or an unexpected health problem. For some it’s a vacation. For me, who knows? like Facebook says, it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=932&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Original cover art, Charlotte&#039;s Web, by Garth Williams</media:title>
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		<title>Finders Keepers Losers Weepers</title>
		<link>http://gswebb.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/finders-keepers-losers-weepers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do we choose the books we read? Or do they find us? It’s a question that&#8217;s always fascinated me. It&#8217;s one reason I like wandering into a bookstore or library and having no particular plan in mind. Or having a plan but junking it in favor of a certain sudden clicking in my synapses that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=880&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Lidia Yuknovitch, photo by Dean Hart</media:title>
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		<title>A Beautiful Mind</title>
		<link>http://gswebb.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/a-beautiful-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body&#8217;s sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.—William Styron, Darkness Visible (1990) After the staggering success [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=761&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April is for Poets</title>
		<link>http://gswebb.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/april-is-for-poets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s National Poetry Month! Here&#8217;s to Lorine Neidecker, born May 12, 1903, who grew up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, lived most of her life on Blackhawk Island along the banks of a river, and never liked to read her poetry in public. As her literary executor, Cid Corman, wrote: &#8220;For her, poetry was something each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=828&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the Pursuit of Happiness</title>
		<link>http://gswebb.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/and-the-pursuit-of-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading Maira Kalman&#8216;s newest book, And the Pursuit of Happiness. I love her brevity. I aspire to it with a kind of cheerful hopelessness, knowing that no matter how hard I try, there’s always something more I want to add. Still, in hopes that her wisdom will wear off on me, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=721&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Elements of Style</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">And The Pursuit Of Happiness</media:title>
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		<title>After the Quake</title>
		<link>http://gswebb.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/after-the-quake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan. Its literature and art have been part of my world since before I could read, or hold a pencil, a paint brush or even a crayon. From the prints my mother framed and hung in our house—Degas&#8216;  &#8220;L&#8217;Absinthe,&#8221; Mary Cassatt&#8216;s &#8220;Mother and Child,&#8221; both painters heavily influenced by Japanese art, and a long-forgotten scene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=676&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Mothers, Ourselves &#8230; Our Kitchens</title>
		<link>http://gswebb.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/our-mothers-ourselves-our-kitchens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I looked through my mother’s old recipe box to find her beef stew recipe. I’ve had the box for ten years now, but haven’t made many dishes from it. I haven’t even read all of the index cards. I save them for when I want to get a big whiff of her personality. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gswebb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17854444&amp;post=631&amp;subd=gswebb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Reviews: Should They Stay or Should They Go?</title>
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