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		<title>Spill It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing of any great import to add to this heart-wrenching post by Mark Doty, except to point you to this exceedingly depressing satellite photo. A short while ago, CNN played video of oil spilling out of a hole in the floor of the ocean. The newscaster rambled on about something or other&#8211;how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The River in Winter World Tour 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lambda Literary Foundation has arranged a series of readings, and I&#8217;ll be doing two of them.* April 13: Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library (site) 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA 94102 (map) There is a reception at 5:00 pm, and I&#8217;m told there will be excellent food. The reading itself begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Covers, Part Ten: First Anniversary Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, hey, I&#8217;ve been doing this writey bloggy thing for over a year now. Woot! I wrote my first-ever post (cleverly entitled &#8220;First!&#8221;) on March 26, 2009. In that post I wrote mainly about Carol Bly and the book of essays, Letters from the Country, from which I took the name of this blog. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Covers, Part Nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another installment of my sporadic series of rants and raves on book design. These&#8217;ll be relatively short. These people look as if they&#8217;re at an air show. Todd has dragged me to any number of air shows. I do not like air shows. You stand outside in the heat with the sun pounding down on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Has a Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The River in Winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I feel like this: see more dog and puppy pictures For you see, this morning&#8217;s email brought me some very good news: The River In Winter is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category. I&#8217;ve already bought tickets for the awards ceremony and the benefit that follows. It&#8217;s improbable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for Something Completely Different</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New World and the Old]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That cover design I posted a couple of weeks ago just never seemed quite right. I did a little more looking around and found some photos of an old globe. I think I may have had a globe much like it when I was a kid. My parents gave me a Replogle globe for Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Lemonade Springs and the Bluebird Sings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wallace Stegner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished The Big Rock Candy Mountain last night. Here&#8217;s my Goodreads review: I hope it&#8217;s not sacrilege to say this, but I found Stegner&#8217;s writing style a bit uneven. At times he strikes an elevated, epic tone. At other times he slips into a more casual, second-person narration. Now and again a sentence or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Custody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another tidbit from the playwriting phase I went through a couple of years ago. I had totally forgotten this existed until yesterday. After I read it over, I suddenly remembered plotting the whole thing out while I mowed the lawn. Two summers ago. There&#8217;s a French pun near the very end. I can hardly believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New and Old</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=2804</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New World and the Old]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, when I posted a design for the cover of my novel-in-progress, I said it was way too soon to be thinking about such things, and sure enough, I&#8217;m thiiiiis close to changing the title. And even though I am, therefore (ergo and to wit), on the very verge of proving that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Living (or Are They the Dead)?</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=2790</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Dillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wallace Stegner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some progress on my 2010 reading list: I finished The Living. I wrote a review over on Goodreads: This book is beautifully written. The prose is as fine and as lovely as anything I&#8217;ve ever read. The book is majestic and magisterial, as formidable as the densely forested lands that the characters strive to master [...]]]></description>
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