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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Aesthetics</title>
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		<title>Alice Munro, &#8220;Too Much Happiness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too Much Happiness Alice Munro Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 304pp Alice Munro is one of those rare literary icons who has the distinct reputation as a crossover writer. She is admired by academics for her literary sensibilities, the mainstream for her easy-to-identify-with characters, and fiction writers who continue to be amazed at her ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought about love once And then decided to See a movie instead. I thought about love again Just yesterday as the Inflated clouds dragged Themselves through The brush of blue sky Sealing into paper- Wrapping silence One eager plane with its Tired cargo of travelers. And today, well, I cannot tell a lie. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teenage Love Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Showing up on time Is the easy part. The dashboard of My rented car Free of dust, Wax-clean, Vacuumed carpets And a lemon smelling Tag dangling from The rear view mirror. One more look In the sun-visor Mirror, an angled glance At the straggly sideburns. Fly firmly zipped. Spitting on my closed Index fingers, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorrie Moore, &#8220;A Gate at the Stairs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to write a review of a novel that has significant events that cannot be revealed without destroying the tension of those events. In the same vein, Internet film reviews often caution their readers that the review contains spoiler information that gives away key plot information. If you&#8217;re writing a review of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendship, A Transformational Narrative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociologists have given us pretty accurate stats about the majority of us marrying or having intimate relationships, endogamously—that is, inside of our class, race, religion, and/or economic status. Exogamy is the exception, not the rule. Even if we know someone from another culture in the workplace, most of us still go home to our homogeneous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roberto Bolaño, &#8220;By Night in Chile&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  jokingly made the comment to a friend of mine that English majors, like myself, seem to revel in literature that&#8217;s hard to get the first time round. That doesn&#8217;t mean second readings don&#8217;t enhance our understanding of a work. It&#8217;s just that we sometimes distrust our I-get-it reactions as being superficial because they&#8217;re too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assisted Suicide</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/aesthetics/to-be-or-not-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a very touching story of an English couple who had gone to an assisted-suicide clinic in Switzerland to end their lives together. The wife, in her seventies, was a television producer, choreographer, and former ballerina. She had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her ailing, eighty-five year old husband, was a former BBC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Wray, &#8220;Lowboy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insanity as a literary theme has always had an audience—those ardent peeping-Toms who love to wallow around in somebody else&#8217;s mania. And there is something about the draw of a house fire or a mangled car on the Interstate that seeps into our indifference with the power of a jackhammer. Add a paranoid schizophrenic, some [...]]]></description>
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