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		<title>Shitty First Drafts</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2011/02/18/shitty-first-drafts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With apologies to Anne Lamott, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve taken to doing with novel drafts. My local feed store ran out of wood shavings, so I&#8217;ve been using shredded office paper inside the coop. I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t do &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2011/02/18/shitty-first-drafts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CookBookSlut vs. the Economy</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2011/01/04/cookbookslut-vs-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new CookBookSlut column is up over at Bookslut &#8212; I take on cooking and urban homesteading as one approach to the continuing implosion of the economy and the unabating high unemployment rate. I mean, if we&#8217;re not going to &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2011/01/04/cookbookslut-vs-the-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Two-Book Curse?</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/11/30/the-two-book-curse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long weekend, a big snowstorm, my sweetheart’s delightful cabin (available as a vacation rental!) with a woodstove and snow outside and two deer in the yard in the morning, which meant I had a lovely, unplugged stretch of time &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/11/30/the-two-book-curse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What kind of a wuss was Woolf?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/11/09/what-kind-of-a-wuss-was-woolf/</link>
		<comments>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/11/09/what-kind-of-a-wuss-was-woolf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Run, do not walk (well, in internet terms) to the London Review of Books and read Hilary Mantel&#8217;s Diary of being ill. It&#8217;s by turns hilarious and hallucinogenic and scary (and probably not for the squeamish) and brilliant. Especially her &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/11/09/what-kind-of-a-wuss-was-woolf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Unlikeable&#8221; Characters</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/10/26/on-unlikeable-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about the subject of fictional characters and &#8220;likeability.&#8221; Probably because I&#8217;m writing again, but also because it&#8217;s a topic dear to my heart, since so many readers found Anne, in Place Last Seen deeply &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/10/26/on-unlikeable-characters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Best Food Writing 2010</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/10/13/best-food-writing-2010-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look what the UPS man brought me yesterday &#8212; It&#8217;s always a surprise to see something you&#8217;ve written in an actual book, one that was produced by someone else, and has managed to independently make its way into a store. &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/10/13/best-food-writing-2010-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Franzenfruede, Continued&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/09/23/franzenfruede-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/09/23/franzenfruede-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sweetheart brought home his copy of The Nation yesterday, and said &#8220;Just read this, there&#8217;s a great sentence you&#8217;ll love.&#8221; Thank you Katha Pollitt: It&#8217;s often said that women&#8217;s writing is less valued because it takes up stereotypically feminine &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/09/23/franzenfruede-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Franzen and &#8220;The Great American Novel&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/09/12/franzen-and-the-great-american-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/09/12/franzen-and-the-great-american-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching the hooplah surrounding the publication of Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s Freedom with something of a jaundiced eye &#8212; it&#8217;s the Big Book of the fall, and Franzen&#8217;s getting similar reviews to the ones he got for The Corrections, that &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/09/12/franzen-and-the-great-american-novel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New CookBookSlut</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/08/02/new-cookbookslut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New CookBook Slut article is up. I get a little ranty this month about food politics. &#8220;The Revolution Is Here&#8221; One of the questions that has come up over and over both on my blog, on other food blogs, and &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/08/02/new-cookbookslut/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Walt Whitman for Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/05/31/walt-whitman-for-memorial-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Memorial Day, and because the lilacs just bloomed, a little Walt Whitman. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed 1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky &#8230; <a href="http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/05/31/walt-whitman-for-memorial-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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