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		<title>NPR&#8217;s Kai Ryssdal&#8217;s essential interview with Donald Rumfseld</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shamusbishop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old man Donald Rumsfeld has emerged to flog another book. He&#8217;s making the rounds on various media outlets to promote Rumsfeld&#8217;s Rules. Unlike his memoir, this book has no narrative. Instead it&#8217;s a set of dozens of rules that he&#8217;s come up with over the years as guiding principles for his management philosophy. When he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=397&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In honor of Maddie on Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our attendance of a &#8220;reading&#8221; by Theron Humphrey from his book Maddie on Things, I&#8217;m posting a picture of Bishop the cat. Bishop is my silent coauthor. At least 50,000 of my manuscript&#8217;s 100,000 words were written with him on my lap. As you can see in this picture, he&#8217;s a big [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=377&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hyperbole and a Half&#8217;s home run post on depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cartoonist Allie Brosh wrote an epic post on her blog Hyperbole and a Half about her struggle with depression. I think she&#8217;s done a wonderful job of illustrating the disease not only to people who have never suffered from it, but to the people who live with it every day. The first few paragraphs capture [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=355&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel Revision: Page One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first page of the novel I&#8217;ve been working on. It&#8217;s a fantasy novel set in a secondary world analogous to Medieval Europe (no points for originality). Anyway, I&#8217;m in the midst of heavy revision of the 95,000 words I have written so far. I&#8217;m drafting a new outline based on feedback I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=348&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human relationships in epic fantasy: Give me some quiet moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was recently approaching the 95,000-word mark in the fantasy novel I was writing, I thought to myself, &#8220;I really wish I could just have a scene in a kitchen where my protagonist can talk to his girlfriend about something mundane. How was your day? How was work?&#8221; In a genre where someone is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=311&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muse &amp; the Marketplace takeaway: Novel revision time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 17:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I went to my first Muse and the Marketplace, the annual writing conference held in Boston by the wonderful nonprofit Grub Street. This was a big event for me because I had signed up for the show&#8217;s Manuscript Mart. The Mart is a unique feature of the conference where writers can sign up for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=274&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel writing roadblock: Getting past the wall at 93,000 words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 03:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shamusbishop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing a fantasy novel in September. The book is based on an idea that&#8217;s been floating around in my head for a couple years. When I started writing, the book just flowed through me. I was churning out 5,000 to 6,000 words a week. I wrote an outline. Then I wrote a new [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=271&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When will Republicans reclaim their party from right-wing radio?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ideological rigidity of the Republican party has become unbearable. It refuses to compromise on anything. It says no to everything. GOP politicians are afraid to even have a photograph taken shaking President Obama&#8217;s hand. Part of this is driven by right-wing media, particularly the radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, whose millions of listeners form [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=268&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns for self-defense: What are we afraid of?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gun rights advocates tell us the Second Amendment is the people&#8217;s guarantee that their freedoms cannot be taken away, whether by criminals or a tyrannical government. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=265&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the best argument for unfettered gun ownership fear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear is the mind killer. Frank Herbert wrote that in his novel Dune. I don&#8217;t think he had America&#8217;s obsession with deadly firearms in mind when he wrote it, but the observation is apt. Gun rights advocates have countless arguments for keeping military-style assault weapons in the hands of civilians in this country. One that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=areadersfeast.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14984434&#038;post=260&#038;subd=areadersfeast&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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