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		<title>bridging the great unconformity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks kinda like a gang sign, no? A tribal tattoo? Something from The Matrix? Actually, it&#8217;s a fossil from a time we know very little about, in terms of biology.  The Precambrian era was a very long hunk of time &#8212; about 4 billion years, to be imprecise &#8212; that predated the explosion of life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/07/27/bridging-the-great-unconformity/</link>
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		<title>the best writing on place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the privilege of working with an exceptional group of writers at the Taos Summer Writers&#8217; Conference. It was my second year there, and I&#8217;m delighted to say this collection of people was every bit as wonderful as last year&#8217;s group:  smart, generous, funny, game as all get-out. We did some good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/07/22/the-best-writing-on-place/</link>
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		<title>what I&#8217;m reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m loving these long days, outside until almost 9 yanking weeds and walking the dog in the dusk, but it sure cuts down on the time I&#8217;ve got to read before I conk out for the night. The stack by my bedside grows. I just picked up Marilynne Robinson&#8217;s ABSENCE OF MIND, which sounds a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/05/18/breen-kirkwood-marilynne-robinson/</link>
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		<title>secret places</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning we woke up to spring snow, a layer of white that melted well before noon. Beautiful! Except for the fact that we&#8217;ve got apricot trees growing in our new digs here in Taos, and the branches are loaded with delicate white blossoms that mean a bumper crop of fruit this summer &#8212; IF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/24/secret-places/</link>
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		<title>creating literary community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, AWP was great.  Provocative panels, terrific new people, chewy ideas, plenty of gossip, only a few too many glasses of wine. Even the food thing worked out okay, if you discount the late-night Domino&#8217;s pizza in the room.  (Pepperoni and pineapple. That&#8217;s how I really know I&#8217;m on vacation.)  I loved hanging out with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/20/creating-literary-community/</link>
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		<title>writing the west, or &#8230; not.  yes, it&#8217;s AWP, and it&#8217;s in Denver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you already write the west.  Maybe you write everything but.  Maybe you want to, but can&#8217;t get a handle on it for all the iconic imagery.  Maybe your own west is a personal thing, the downhill side of your body when you&#8217;re walking the flank of a favorite mountain, the uphill side when you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/04/01/awp-in-denver/</link>
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		<title>destination tucson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, vacation. Time off, a change of scenery, and no laptops tethering us to the cyberworld. Just the world itself, out the front windshield of the mini Cooper. We headed for the western edge of the Gila Wilderness (first spot so designated in the country – thanks to Aldo Leopold and his forward vision) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/03/18/destination-tucson/</link>
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		<title>on the road with ian frazier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I promised more Siberia. Lucky you! There’s plenty of it to go around. There’s so much Siberia, in fact, that it took Ian Frazier and two Russian pals five weeks and two days to cross it in a diesel-powered Renault step van. He wrote about the experience in a two-part article The New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/03/04/on-the-road-with-ian-frazier/</link>
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		<title>going to siberia (in my mind)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all apologies due James Taylor, there’s something powerful about the way a place – even a place you’ve never visited – can stand in for a state of being. Siberia? I think: Cold. Isolation. Hard labor. Okay, tundra. Maybe caribou. There are few places in the world I don’t want to go to as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/01/21/going-to-siberia-in-my-mind/</link>
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		<title>to help in haiti you&#8217;ve got to know where to go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent much of last night watching the TV and staring at the computer screen, stunned by the images of a Haiti under siege. The disastrous earthquake and its death toll, the very literal ticking clock as relief workers toil to rescue those still trapped, and the misery among the survivors – who will face [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/01/14/to-help-in-haiti-youve-got-to-know-where-to-go/</link>
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