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		<title>in honor of Grace Paley&#8217;s birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 11 would be Grace Paley&#8217;s 89th birthday. I&#8217;ve assigned her story &#8220;Faith in the Afternoon&#8221; for a writing workshop I&#8217;m teaching this weekend, and re-reading it I&#8217;m just as dazzled by her brilliance as I was the first time I encountered her work. Grace was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2011/12/05/in-honor-of-grace-paleys-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Writing from place</title>
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		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2011/07/27/writing-from-place/</link>
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		<title>new mexico reads wrecker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got an email this morning from a friend who directed me to New Mexico Magazine &#8212; and here&#8217;s what I found: Fiction Wrecker By Summer Wood Bloomsbury USA 304 pages, hardcover, $20 Family doesn’t have to mean marriage and blood ties. Unconventional connections in a world of tough breaks are at the heart of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2011/04/18/new-mexico-reads-wrecker/</link>
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		<title>WRECKER all over the place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WRECKER&#8217;s on the road &#8212; literally, in the form of a book tour throughout NM, CA, OR, and WA, and figuratively, on the cyberhighway. I&#8217;m running alongside, but wanted to take a minute to share a few highlights. THANKS to everybody who has come out to see me, bought the book, offered good wishes, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2011/02/25/wrecker-all-over-the-place/</link>
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		<title>why blackberries?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many places have their iconic crop.  In New Mexico, where I live, it’s the green chile.  In Iowa it’s corn; in Georgia, the peach; upstate New York, apples; in Orange County – well, duh. And northern California? Okay.  So blackberries may not be the first crop to come to mind when you think of Humboldt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.allochthonous.com/2010/08/25/why-blackberries/</link>
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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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