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		<description><![CDATA[It was Ernest Hemingway who first won my heart to fiction.  Before him I had loved The Catcher in the Rye, but that was purely for its content.  I had no appreciation for Salinger’s craft.  I was only captivated the social criticism that seemed to have stolen all of my best insights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=152&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Munro</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the most recent edition of Harper&#8217;s (kindly given to me by Ryan&#8217;s fiancee, Anna, for my car ride home to Portland from Lodi, CA), there is a short story by Alice Munro entitled &#8220;Fiction.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a fantastic story, Munro is from Oregon, and you can get a printable pdf online here.  That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=98&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Flannery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence.  This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=23&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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