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		<title>Believe in Butler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blake Butler&#8217;s Scorch Atlas has been named 1 of 5 finalists for The Believer Book Award. Go, Blake! Read it before everyone else in the world does.



 


	
	
	


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		<title>Can you say Czyzniejewski?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Czyzniejewski, who has a new book out, has been getting some great press recently (and by proxy so have we). Read an   interview at Fiction Writers Review.



 


	
	
	


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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Burch&#8217;s chapbook.



 


	
	
	


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		<title>Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dirty Water Reading Series presents its annual &#8220;Dysfunctional Family Holiday&#8221; reading at Grub Street HQ on Saturday, December 12, featuring holiday-themed mad-libs and short readings by Jane Berentson, DJ Dolack, Bill Donoghue, and William Walsh. As with other installments of the Dirty Water Reading Series, the event promises to be more than your typical ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pushcart Hopes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just nominated for 2009 Pushcarts: Kirsten Rue&#8217;s Spelling, Salvatore Pane&#8217;s Fences Fly By, Dylan Nice&#8217;s Their Health, and Randall Brown&#8217;s It Doesn&#8217;t.



 


	
	
	


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		<title>Spelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words never come simply to her, never just arrive the way milk bottles shiver down the shoots in old factory footage, each lid smacked on with a popping sound. They aren’t just ready; they aren’t just there.
She works around them. Perambulates. Circumlocutes. She asks her mother to pass the steel wedge. Her sister looks ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignore the knocking from the lying-in room while you rake the leaves. Your wife irons the bed sheets and stacks them in the closet. The house shudders like a sleeping horse, and the teacups rattle on their hooks. Out comes the silverware polish. The chandeliers are next. The trees are bare, and the blackened limbs ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fences Fly By</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick calls and says he’s driving across America and needs a place to crash for the night. I tell him I’ve got a futon, and he shows up at dusk in a real beater, explains he’s shipping out to Iraq in a month and wanted to see the country. We go to Church Brew Works, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here comes Cheryl with a box.
“What’s in the box, Cheryl?”
“It’s not a box.”
Cheryl has a history with boxes&#8230;.
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		<title>You Look Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She drove through Canada, into the state of the lion. The stars were out&#8230;.
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