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	<title>Among The Jumbled Heap</title>
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	<description>Oh Solitude, if I must with thee dwell...</description>
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		<title>Jose Saramago 1922-2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This seems to be a big year for the literary dead.  Jose Saramago, Nobel prize-winning author, died last Friday June 18th.  Check out the NYTimes obit.
I immersed myself in Saramago a few years back whilst living in Chicago.  I read his novels riding the El to and from work and in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Yoon &#8212; Once the Shore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once the Shore is Yoon&#8217;s first book, and it brings together many of the short stories that have made him a writer of note.  All the stories in Once the Shore take place on a small island belonging to South Korea.  Each story captures a different moment in the island&#8217;s history, from World [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/06/13/paul-yoon-once-the-shore/</link>
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		<title>Why I love Bill Murray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Murray reading poetry to construction workers.

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		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/05/15/why-i-love-bill-murray/</link>
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		<title>Rejection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past year, I have been diligently sending out my short stories to various journals.  This is a major psychological step for me.  My stories have always been just that, mine, and I have not wanted to share them with a larger audience.  A feeling, I&#8217;m sure, that is partially rooted in my own fear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/04/18/rejection/</link>
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		<title>Herta Muller and the Book of Revelation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Literature of Oppression
The current wave of obsession with the Christian notion of the Rapture and the Apocalypse, on the surface, has little to do with literature and certainly even less to do with the writing of Herta Muller, the Nobel Prize winner of 2009.  Rapture literature is low-brow fiction, for sure.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/04/11/herta-muller-and-the-book-of-revelation/</link>
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		<title>Michelle Huneven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are novelists whom I read for the pleasure of their words, others I read for the beauty of the stories, and, if I&#8217;m honest, there are some I read simply because I feel like it&#8217;s a cultural must (that damned Western Cannon), but then there are novels that I seem drawn to for psychological [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/03/31/michelle-huneven/</link>
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		<title>On becoming a famous poet&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how to become the most important poet in America over night?  Jim Behrle has the answer: How you can become the most important poet in America overnight.
Here&#8217;s a snippet:
There are many paths through the art. Having enough money to sit in a log cabin all day watching foxes make out, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/03/09/on-becoming-a-famous-poet/</link>
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		<title>Also Read&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend the Hamster unwittingly helped launch this blog.  He was visiting Arkansas and we were sitting together at a chicken shack sharing a pipe and talking about books.  &#8220;You read all these books, but how much time to do you spend thinking about &#8216;em?&#8221;  His challenge was that I write a blurb about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/02/21/also-read/</link>
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		<title>The Yankee South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
I was born in Flint, Michigan.  My parents still live there.  My grandparents have lived or still live there.  Flint is the quintessential Northern factory town.  It is a city that General Motors built, and when I grew up nearly everyone I knew was connected in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/02/14/the-yankee-south/</link>
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		<title>If a body see a body&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010
J.D. Salinger and I go way back.  It was he who stuck &#8220;Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a poor sinner&#8221; into my little brain.  Yep, this is that damned Jesus Prayer that drives Franny Glass bonkers in Franny and Zooey.
As much as I hate the man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/01/31/if-a-body-see-a-body/</link>
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