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		<title>Panorama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Took this during a bike ride a few nights ago. St. Paul from the Smith Ave. bridge. Not bad for a cell phone camera. Click to embiggen.]]></description>
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		<title>Score One for the Gatekeepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On Reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great article at Salon.com today. Laura Miller on the realities of the supposed coming onslaught of self-publishing, as driven by e-books, social media, etc. Have you noticed a trend? I&#8217;m highly supportive of skepticism around social media and digital revolutions, especially as it relates to the book world. &#8220;Slush fatigue,&#8221; as Miller calls it, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finished Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[(Attempts at) Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bitter Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New from the makers of Foaming Hand Soap...

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		<title>Common Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Earnest News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Common Good Books of St. Paul is now carrying a limited but replenishable quantity of Javascotia in the paperback edition. That means starting now and lasting indefinitely Twin Citians can pick up a copy live and person &#8212; no shipping, no waiting! While you&#8217;re there, pop upstairs to Nina&#8217;s. You can dig in to JS with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loft-worthy?</title>
		<link>http://www.benobler.com/?p=278</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for a bit of shameless self-promotion. Maybe you&#8217;re here at my site because you saw the listing for my class in the summer 2010 catalog of the The Loft literary center. Maybe you want to know who I am and if I can teach my way out of a wet paper bag. Well, this spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penguin has the paperback in hand. It hits the UK shelves March 25. Right now at Penguin&#8217;s site you can sign up to win one of ten copies they are giving away. (UK residents only.)]]></description>
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		<title>New Short Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Earnest News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good news today. I&#8217;ve had a story accepted by The Evansville Review. &#8220;Randy Randall&#8221; is about an office misanthropist and his run-in with a new hire, the titular Randy Randall.  Authors who have appeared in The Evansville Review include Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, and TC Boyle. Not bad company. Vol. XX of the journal will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Reading DeLillo&#8217;s Libra</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On Reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Don Delillo&#8217;s Libra, all the men are of the same ilk to an extent that isn’t believable. They all seem shaped by DeLillo’s masculine sensibility. They are all in ¾ profile, or less. There’s a whole domain of feeling that none of them experience—or, being a domain, I should say “enter.” None enters it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>28 Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A story of mine, &#8220;28 Things About the Beast,&#8221; appears in the October 2009 issue of Qwerty, a Canadian journal. It&#8217;s a fluffy little number. It&#8217;s literary merangue. Read it online.]]></description>
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		<title>The Loft</title>
		<link>http://www.benobler.com/?p=144</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Earnest News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Earnest News department, I&#8217;m pleased to share that I&#8217;ll be teaching a class at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis in the summer of 2010. It will be an 8-week workshop on Literary short fiction as a genre. If you don&#8217;t know about The Loft, do check them out. Loft classes are a [...]]]></description>
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