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	<description>throw beans up against me; they will explode</description>
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		<title>Old Moves, New to Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this weekend Joseph O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Netherland, and came across a scene with a structure I&#8217;ve been noticing a lot lately. Or a kind of structural move I for whatever reason am these days more attuned to. It&#8217;s about 23 percent of the way through the novel (thanks, Kindle!). Hans is on a train up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All About My Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some &#8220;facts&#8221;* about Pamela Kay Madden neé Myers. Her favorite flower is the daisy. The daisy? &#8220;It&#8217;s always been the daisy,&#8221; she told me recently. &#8220;It&#8217;s always been the daisy.&#8221; She was at one time in the 1980s the president of what was either called &#8220;the Ladies Auxiliary of the Herndon Jaycees&#8221; or, more regrettably, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Whiskey, Guns, and the Restless Spirit of Richard Ford&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 01:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the June 2012 issue of Men&#8217;s Journal: Richard Ford is driving around Memphis looking for barbecue, with his wife, Kristina, a leggy, blond PhD. Ford just drove in from Oxford, Mississippi, where he&#8217;s teaching a writing class at Ole Miss&#8212;filling in for his friend, novelist Barry Hannah, who died in 2010. [. . .] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of a Paragraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is maybe 40 percent good intentions and 60 percent vanity, but this is a blog so what do you expect? I started revisions this morning on the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2010. I&#8217;m using FocusWriter because I like how it fills the screen with nothing but a blank field. Very useful. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hardison, O.B. &#8220;Binding Proteus: An Essay on the Essay&#8221;. Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre. Alexander J. Butrym, ed. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1989. 11-28.</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/blog/2012/05/hardison-o-b-binding-proteus-an-essay-on-the-essay-essays-on-the-essay-redefining-the-genre-alexander-j-butrym-ed-athens-u-of-georgia-p-1989-11-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who? O.B. Hardison, Jr., former head of the Folger Library who for a long time had a poetry prize named for him. Who knew he was so smart when it came to the essay? That he was so spot-on re the essay&#8217;s history, style, approach, and reach? To wit: [T]he early essay [of Montaigne and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip for Comedy Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;ve got an American in Germany, say, or just like a person speaking German with a bad/American accent, the funniest thing for him or her (well: a man doing it is innately funnier) to say in said accent is Ich bin nicht daran interessiert.]]></description>
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		<title>Essay Obsession</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/blog/2012/04/essay-obsession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a thing in me that wants in writing essays to make every possible connection and to trace things to their deepest roots. It rarely ends well. The standard result is that I take a whole morning tracking leads on library databases and newspaper archives only to discover some old, repeated truth: There Is No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very Good Paragraphs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From John Seabrook&#8217;s &#8220;The Song Machine&#8221;, an excellent dissection of contemporary pop&#8217;s songwriting process in the 26 March 2012 New Yorker: Top Forty radio was invented by Todd Storz and Bill Stewart, the operator and program director, respectively, of KOWH, an AM station in Omaha, Nebraska, in the early fifties. Like most music programmers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scruffy, Funny Dudes with Debris in their Beards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Endorsements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[dot tumblr dot com]]></description>
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		<title>thughts on villainy</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/blog/2012/03/thughts-on-villainy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[in boardwalk empire, we see all kimds of Nucky situations. he,s getting people jobs, he,s romanicng women, he,s at parties, he,s getting work done. rothstein, our villain, is only seen in his offices working to cinvince lesser men of hi importance. it works very well. rothstein is spared the humanity of being a person with [...]]]></description>
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