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	<description>Reëstablishing the ubiquity of quality literature</description>
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		<title>And the Semi-Finalists Are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flatmancrooked&#8217;s First Annual Poetry Prize ended at the close of January. The response was enthusiastic and a bit overwhelming. The editors read thousands of poems, then reread, and read again, whittling them down to this list of semi-finalists that will be included in Flatmancrooked&#8217;s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry, due out this summer. And the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Prophet&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Turan LA Times
Genre is powerful, especially in the hands of as gifted a filmmaker as France&#8217;s Jacques Audiard. His new film, the masterful &#8220;A Prophet,&#8221; is an answered prayer for those who believe that revitalizing classic forms with contemporary attitudes makes for the most compelling kind of cinema.
Part prison film, part crime story, part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6519</link>
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		<title>POET-IN-RESIDENCE, 1.10: Eleni Sikelianos</title>
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From the Flatmancrooked Winter 09/10 Poet-In-Residence, Eleni Sikelianos, comes selected poems, chosen by the poet from her body of work. These posts will appear every Sunday for the next ten weeks, after which a new Poet-In-Residence will be introduced and his or her work featured. This number 10 of 10. The poems featured in previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6504</link>
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		<title>An Israeli Tale of Communal Mistrust, Without the Finger-Pointing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A.O. Scott of The New York Times has  an interesting review of &#8220;Ajami,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s submission to the Oscars for Best Foreign Film.  &#8220;Ajami&#8221; is opening in the States now to a limited release, so check your local times and listings.
Written and directed by Scandar Copti, an Israeli Arab (who also plays an important supporting role), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6251</link>
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		<title>Break Every Rule, Part 3 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking that city life is superior to smaller town life, to rural life. In “Surrender,” Maso describes how she had been hired to teach at Illinois State University, and how low her expectations were of living and working there, but also how her feelings shifted:
I was expecting nothing. Then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6409</link>
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		<title>Copia Is Coming to Tools of Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fresh off a buzz-generating appearance at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the enterprise and consumer electronics firm DMC Worldwide is in New York City showing off Copia, a new Web site offering a reading social network platform and e-commerce that includes a suite of linked digital reading devices set to hit the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6502</link>
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		<title>NOT ALONE MY INKY CLOAK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hertha had on a string of pearls she hadn’t worn in years. She was looking rather nice, standing there in the vestibule wearing an old, though elegant, black velvet dress, her hair neatly curled and tied in place with a bright ribbon, her shiny NS-Frauenschaft emblem pinned over her heart; but the expression on her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6493</link>
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		<title>‘The Hermaphrodite’: An Hallucinated Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Grandbois, The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir, Los Angeles, Green Integer Books, 2010, $13.95
How shall I review The Hermaphrodite?  One could simply label it a humorous book that revels playfully in the unraveling of received meaning, of apparent opposites, of anything under, over, or between the sun.  To be sure, one could start with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6451</link>
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		<title>THINK ABOUT SNOW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother has dreams about choking on things. Peach pits, credit cards, her wedding ring, anything. I used to find her in the kitchen in the middle of the night, half-asleep, eating bread, which supposedly helps if you swallow something odd.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/3019</link>
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		<title>Why Genre Will Prevail, in Peace and Freedom from Fear, and in True Health, through the Purity and Essence of Its Natural Fluids, God Bless You All</title>
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from BigOther &#8211; re: John M. recently quoting something that Paul wrote at his blog, and re: Roxane’s recent post and the resulting epic thread regarding writing and its worth, I’d like to pick a bit more at the bones of genre fiction.
I love genre, because genres are basically conventions. They’re expectations that both authors [...]]]></description>
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