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		<title>WHERE DID YOU DRIVE IN FROM?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guy is swimming towards me. Gray hair, gray goatee. I am in the shallow end of an indoor pool. My six-year-old son is in my arms. My thirteen-year-old son is standing on the concrete behind me. The man says, &#8220;Where did you drive in from?:Whenever someone is speaking to me in a language that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=47</link>
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		<title>I NEVER TOLD YOU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was dead already. You walked in and looked at the empty bed and didn&#8217;t look around. I thought, okay, I&#8217;m not here any more.
But you see me. In this terrible chair. They make me sit on this in the shower. They won&#8217;t let me stand. They took away my last pleasure, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=37</link>
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		<title>WALLS OF BOOKS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Magazine recently asked 60 literary critics to name one novel of the last decade that they thought was important, but overlooked and forgotten.  It is a compelling list. There are so many great writers and little time to read them. I felt overwhelmed after reading the list and a memory came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=46</link>
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		<title>REMEMBER WHAT?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago I got up early on Memorial Day and decided that breakfast out was a good idea. I drove to the only place I thought might be open. It&#8217;s a small grocery store and diner called &#8220;Fraternity Village&#8221; in Searsmont, Maine. I sat down at a table at the open front window and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=33</link>
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		<title>OUTLAW WRITERS: OXYMORONS AND FRIENDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked what Alan Kaufman, Neil Ortenberg, and Barney Rosset did as editors of &#8220;The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry&#8220;. It&#8217;s still in print and selling well. It&#8217;s a good read and when it isn&#8217;t: the weaker stuff is easy to step over. Look, there&#8217;s another poem waiting right there. Thick as a phone directory, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=31</link>
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		<title>KURT&#8217;S JOKE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kurt Vonnegut is no longer stuck in time. I first heard of Vonnegut when he was protesting a war. He was described in a newspaper article as a fiction writer who had been a prisoner of the Germans in World War II. He had my attention.
I read everything he wrote. It was hard not to. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>WHAT&#8217;S TEETH HAVE TO DO WITH IT?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adbusters Magazine is one of the best things happening in our culture and largely ignored by literary web log sites. I remember the feeling of excitement I felt when I first saw an altered billboard in San Francisco that had a large lipsticked mouth with gleaming teeth glued on the small head of a nearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=29</link>
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		<title>TAKING YOUR LIBRARY PUBLIC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone want to list their personal library in public?
That was my question when I heard about Tim Spalding and his LibraryThing site last year. It makes sense if you are a rare book seller and want people to know what you have, but why would others take the time?
Business 2.0 magazine reported in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=28</link>
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		<title>MAY I HAVE THIS FIGHT?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy reading criticism and review, but I don&#8217;t write it.
I am also a baseball fan. Statistics bore me and I don&#8217;t have room for the hiring/firing/trading drama that follows star players, but I love driving down to see the regional farm team. If I&#8217;m lucky, I will get lost in the game and feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=27</link>
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		<title>IT&#8217;S ONLY BUSINESS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Uncle John once gave me a non-fiction book and told me to read it &#8220;because it was true&#8221;. The last name of the author was Gregory; he was or had been an attorney in public service. (I have not been able to find the book listed for sale, used or new, on any book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://screamingplanet.com/wpblog/?p=26</link>
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