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		<title>The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pollock, Donald Ray. The Devil All the Time. New York: Doubleday – Random House, 2011. Print. “He’d been brought up to believe that you never talked to God when you were under the influence. A man needed to be sincere with the Master all times in case he was ever really in need.” ~ Donald [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loory, Ben. Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. New York: Penguin, 2011. Print. “The knife flies cleanly through the air – and lands perfectly in the center of the friend’s stomach.” ~ Ben Loory, “The Knife Act” from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (122) &#160; A pocket full of fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doerr, Anthony. Memory Wall. New York: Scribner – Simon &#38; Schuster, 2011. Print. “…in every genealogy someone will always be last: last leaf on the family tree, last stone in the family plot.” ~ from “Procreate, Generate” in Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (95) &#160; When I want a new story I can count on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks, Russell. Lost Memory of Skin. New York: ecco – HarperCollins, 2011. Print. “He’s remembering the night he got busted and the watery feeling he got all over his body when he realized that nothing was what he thought it was and no one was who he and she claimed to be.” ~ Russell Banks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Udall, Brady. Letting Loose the Hounds: Stories. 1997. New York: Norton, 2010. Print. “There is something gratifying about having a serious injury and no serious pain to go with it.” ~ Brady Udall, “Buckeye the Elder” from Letting Loose the Hounds (29) &#160; For a western writer, Udall doesn’t write the west the way other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. New York: Mariner – Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Print. “Now that I had learned Mr. Pirzada was not an Indian, I began to study him with extra care, to try to figure out what made him different.” ~ Lahiri Jhumpa, “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” from Interpreter of Maladies (30) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Li, Yiyun. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories. New York: Random House, 2010. Print. “The woman’s circumstances were hard indeed, but she was a mother, and a mother should never be defeated by circumstances.” ~ Yiyun Le, “The Proprietress” from Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (139) &#160; Yiyun Li’s short stories are remarkable. They satisfy by meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budnitz, Judy. Flying Leap: Stories. New York: Picador, 1998. Print. “My little sister went off to college and caught leprosy.” ~ Judy Budnitz, “Skin Care” from Flying Leap (177) &#160; Surrealism is, perhaps for my taste, something that feels better as an idea. Judy Budnitz takes her stories to terrific surrealist heights, and performs, generally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fires of Our Choosing by Eugene Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross, Eugene. Fires of Our Choosing: Stories. Westland, Michigan: Dzanc Books, 2012. Print. “For those few minutes every day it looked like the lake was on fire, a giant all-consuming blaze far out on the horizon. Erie’s sunsets were world-class. Something about the pollution.” ~ Eugene Cross, “The Brother” from Fires of Our Choosing (60) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tower, Wells. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Print. “He considered for a moment the many miles that lay between him and his own wife, and what it would take to cinch that distance up again.” ~ Wells Tower, “The Brown Coast” from Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (17) &#160; His [...]]]></description>
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