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	<title>AltDaily &#187; Literature</title>
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		<title>Fiction by John McManus: Mr. Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McManus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mama said the way to keep a diary was to write down the opposite of everything that happened, so she gave Jason a blank book so each night he could tell how all the boys played kick the cans until the boogeyman came.]]></description>
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		<title>The Zombies are Gone so Get Out of the House! Nekocon 14, Dancing, Bar Pong, Cake, Art, and Bikes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Mackey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lavander & Lace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Cake Boss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Taphouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VB Pavilion and Convention Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're into Japanese Punk Rock, cake, puppies, women, anime, the 1960s, art, guns, easy money, festivals, bikes, photography, pottery, women, movies, drinks, great food, dancing, or even fairy tales, then there's a good chance the perfect activity awaits you this weekend. ]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction Contest: The Monster that Ate Hampton Roads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Quam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survive norfolk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rules are thus: No more than 100 words (supa flash!) about what would happen if a horror movie character invaded some place in Hampton Roads. You get to choose the character and locale. Give it a whirl, it might be scary how good it is.]]></description>
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		<title>The Masked Mermaid of Ocean View &#124; A Poem for Children</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/entertainment-blogs/the-masked-mermaid-of-ocean-view-a-poem-for-children.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/entertainment-blogs/the-masked-mermaid-of-ocean-view-a-poem-for-children.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A trifling little poem in the spirit of Halloween and mermaids. ]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Notebook: A NFK/VB Creative Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/editors-notebook-a-nfkvb-creative-manifesto.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/editors-notebook-a-nfkvb-creative-manifesto.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visual Arts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.altdaily.com/?p=97695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New York and L.A. will be fine on their own, but we are all we have. We have to stick together. ]]></description>
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		<title>Poser: An Interview with Claire Dederer</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/poser-an-interview-with-claire-dederer.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/poser-an-interview-with-claire-dederer.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Dederer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU Literary Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dederer, author of 'Poser, My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,' reads at the Old Dominion University Literary Festival on Wednesday.]]></description>
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		<title>Overview: 34th Annual Literary Festival @ ODU</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/overview-34th-annual-literary-festival-odu.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/overview-34th-annual-literary-festival-odu.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dillon Tripp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU Literary Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of this year’s festival is centered on Pablo Picasso’s idea, first written in 1925, that “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Artists: REDRAIL</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/call-for-artists-redrail.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/call-for-artists-redrail.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AltDaily Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Visual Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown Norfolk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk cultural affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redrail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Stage Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Proposals are being solicited for projects, hands-on activities, performances, multimedia art works, sidewalk/store-front installations, written word and any other creative temporary art project ideas. ]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Norfolk Urban Legends (&amp; the writers to write them)</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/call-for-norfolk-urban-legends-the-writers-to-write-them.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/call-for-norfolk-urban-legends-the-writers-to-write-them.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AltDaily is working with the City of Norfolk Department of Cultural Affairs on a yet-untitled zine featuring four or more urban legends set in Norfolk.]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Fall AltDaily Editorial Interns</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/call-for-fall-altdaily-editorial-interns.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/call-for-fall-altdaily-editorial-interns.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime Stott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connie Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Delillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.altdaily.com/?p=76225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like to write, edit, and make an impact in your community? Check this out. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Up and Up: Michal Mahgerefteh</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/the-up-and-up-michal-mahgerefteh.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/the-up-and-up-michal-mahgerefteh.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Mahgerefteh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women writers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Local writer Michal Mahgerefteh shares two poems with us. "Frozen in a Mask of Calm" and "The Childless"]]></description>
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		<title>From The Ground Up: Telling Stories From The Up Center</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/from-the-ground-up-telling-stories-from-the-up-center-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/from-the-ground-up-telling-stories-from-the-up-center-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime Stott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the up center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We're looking for writers willing to help give voice to those left unheard in the Norfolk area.]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Get More People to Read Comics?</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/visual-arts-blogs/how-do-we-get-more-people-to-read-comics-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/visual-arts-blogs/how-do-we-get-more-people-to-read-comics-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 19:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visual Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cogan's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comic books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephanten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluorescent black preacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free comic book day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hampton Roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iron man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[locke and key]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott pilgrim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the dark knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the walking dead]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Comics plus bagels and pizza? Must be Local Heroes Free Comic Book Day. ]]></description>
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		<title>Literary: &#8220;Relationship 1, 2, 3, etc.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/relationship123etc.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/relationship123etc.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renee Shuman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mary goes to a party of an acquaintance. Les is there. Mary pretends Les does not exist. No one exists to Les but Mary. Les floats through crowds to speak simple and mundane words at Mary. Les has an intuition about Mary.]]></description>
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		<title>Literary: &#8220;The Press Conference&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/thepressconference.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/thepressconference.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lachman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You want to know if everything you’ve read is a lie, all the funny stories and crazy misadventures I’ve had, the heart breaking realism you’ve come to love about my writing. You want to know if CNN, Oprah, and Amazon are right. Well, there’s a simple answer to that question.”]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking and Writing, Writing and Cooking</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/cooking-and-writing-writing-and-cooking.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/cooking-and-writing-writing-and-cooking.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Bloom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keynote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Dominion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scones]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[speaker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing and cooking are two of my favorite things.

Indeed, they’re a lot alike -- a messy mix of knowledge and improvisation, experience and innovation, and continual revision with a lot going on in between the lines.]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Submissions: Literary</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/call-for-submissions-literary.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/call-for-submissions-literary.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia DeFonzo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever daydream of becoming the next, great American writer...why not start here? ]]></description>
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		<title>From the Ground Up: Telling Stories from The Up Center</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/from-the-ground-up-telling-stories-from-the-up-center.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/from-the-ground-up-telling-stories-from-the-up-center.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah McKean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We're looking for writers willing to help give voice to under-heard voices. ]]></description>
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		<title>Katherine Riegel: Your Life is a Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/q-and-a-with-katherine-riegel-and-ira-sukrungruang.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/q-and-a-with-katherine-riegel-and-ira-sukrungruang.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asha Baisden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Katherine Riegel and Ira Sukrungruang, who will be reading at the ODU bookstore on February 8th.]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction: The Island of Misfit Poets</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/the-island-of-misfit-poets.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/the-island-of-misfit-poets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Staves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU MFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Muse Writing Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted so badly to be able to write a poem: a poem was beautiful; it held a certain power, like being punched in the heart.]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Favorite AltDaily Stories of 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/editors-favorite-altdaily-stories-of-2010.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/editors-favorite-altdaily-stories-of-2010.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Putting this together felt good.]]></description>
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		<title>Hampton Roads Cozies Up To National Novel Writing Month</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/hampton-roads-cozies-up-to-national-novel-writing-month.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/hampton-roads-cozies-up-to-national-novel-writing-month.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz McClendon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NaNoWriMo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Novel Writing Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no-shave november]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching someone how to write is essentially giving them the only tool they need besides an imagination (which I believe still comes standard in humans) to build their own universes.
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		<title>Poem Found in The Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/poem-found-in-the-paper.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/poem-found-in-the-paper.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renee Shuman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[found poem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Cole Conversations Over Breakfast," a poem found in today's news. ]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Art of Community</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/book-review-the-art-of-community.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/book-review-the-art-of-community.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Paddock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art of the community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The points made in The Art of Community about the challenges of galvanizing members of a community should resonate equally with committee organizers, clergy, corporate managers, and World of Warcraft guild leaders...]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Literary Submissions</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/call-for-literary-submissions.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/call-for-literary-submissions.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Hewitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction... We want it all. The more locally-themed, the better. ]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Exercise: Kitchens</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/writing-exercise-kitchens.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/writing-exercise-kitchens.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let's write something lovely, shall we?]]></description>
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		<title>Going Steady with Local Heroes</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/going-steady-with-local-heroes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/going-steady-with-local-heroes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes Cheney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wes Cheney reflects on his 'relationship' with the local comic book store, which recently turned one year old.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning for the Sake of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/learning-for-the-sake-of-life.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/learning-for-the-sake-of-life.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPONG Hall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My students wrote a letter to the administration asking for a change. And it worked. ]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke Eaterz</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/smoke-eaterz.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/smoke-eaterz.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Experimental art and poetry by Richard Perkins.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Vonnegut is also Why I Love Teaching</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/why-i-love-vonnegut-is-also-why-i-love-teaching.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/why-i-love-vonnegut-is-also-why-i-love-teaching.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English 110 ODU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teach what you love love what you teach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching Vonnegut]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vonnegut was a favorite of my buddies and I back in high school. Slaughterhouse. Cat’s Cradle. Time Quake. Breakfast of Champions. Reading him in class was our Farmville, or whatever the hell my students are doing on their cell phones the moment I turn my back on them.]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Grounds for Poetry</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/fair-grounds-for-poetry.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/fair-grounds-for-poetry.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Hite</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee shop poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elliott's Fair Grounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghent Norfolk coffee shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the girls of Fair Grounds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few poems inspired by Elliott's Fair Grounds in Ghent.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Way To Engage Your Students: Inspire Them</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/on-teaching-freshman-comp-part-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/on-teaching-freshman-comp-part-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Paul Kleinman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This second half is where DPK really gets it going. If you've ever taught--especially if you've ever taught English--this is a must read. ]]></description>
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		<title>David Sedaris, Comments in The Pilot, and Loneliness</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/on-david-sedaris-comments-in-the-pilot-and-loneliness.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/on-david-sedaris-comments-in-the-pilot-and-loneliness.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpha males]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cry baby cry make your mother sigh you're old enough to know better so cry baby cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[despite appearances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hamptonroads.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making our best life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obese Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[with butter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zeta boy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I'd like a Jesus so fat he broke the cross," read David Sedaris at Chrysler Hall last night. "This is a Jesus who conjured 1,000 loaves of bread, then ate 50 of them."]]></description>
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		<title>Friday @ Lit Fest: Luisa Igloria</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/friday-lit-fest-luisa-igloria.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/friday-lit-fest-luisa-igloria.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Weddington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Luna’s Revolver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luisa Igloria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who am I?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Feed whatever it is that inspires you, that will make you do that excited dance inside, that will quicken the pulse. Don’t let anything steal your love to create, your love for the craft. Because, the moment you get cynical, you’re done.”]]></description>
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		<title>Friday @ Lit Fest: Jon Pineda</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/this-afternoon-lit-fest-jon-pineda.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/this-afternoon-lit-fest-jon-pineda.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luisa Igloria</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fillipino American writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Pineda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kundiman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matamis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Carbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sleep In Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Translator's Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vince Gotera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Loss has always been a reminder that things are tenuous, and out of such loss is, I believe, the implication of survival.]]></description>
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		<title>Friday @ Lit Fest: Leslea Newman</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/thursday-lit-fest-leslea-newman.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/thursday-lit-fest-leslea-newman.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farideh Goldin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Letter to Harvey Milk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Has Two Mommies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leslea Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Miss Tutu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobody's mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The controversial author of "Heather Has Two Mommies" comes to Virginia Beach.]]></description>
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		<title>A Return to the War Story</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/a-return-to-the-war-story.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/a-return-to-the-war-story.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Hawk Down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbian drug dealer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Dealer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Killing Pablo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times Best Seller List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Finest Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Best Game Ever]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Bowden, consummate journalist and author of "Black Hawk Down," read @ ODU Thursday. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lit Fest Thursday: David Poyer</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/lit-fest-thursday-david-poyer.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AltDaily Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Lenson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Poyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act of 1995]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAG Charlie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gulf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Weapon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiller Galloway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil War at Sea was planned as an eight-book series, but Simon &#038; Schuster cut it off at three books because of declining sales with each volume. Which was shattering to me. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday @ Lit Fest: Poet/Soldier Brian Turner</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/this-afternoon-lit-fest-poetsoldier-brian-turner.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/this-afternoon-lit-fest-poetsoldier-brian-turner.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Renn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bullet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phantom Noise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poet/soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poets Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qu'ran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soldier/poet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tenuous nature of our lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[understanding Middle Eastern culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Oregon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an American poet who has experienced the front line of this country’s foreign policy, his writing provides a rarely seen, but nonetheless important, perspective on how the world sees us and how we see the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Humility from the Lives of Soldiers Lost</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/learning-humility-through-soldiers-lost.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/learning-humility-through-soldiers-lost.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna Eleftheriou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Salute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Breslin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pulizter Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading "Final Salute," Jim Sheeler's account of Marines whose job it was to notify families of the deaths of their sons in Iraq, I was changed. For the first time I suffered a little. I felt, through the writing, enough of the pain of war to make me cry.]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday @ Lit Fest: The New Yorker&#8217;s Jane Mayer</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/lit-fest-preview-the-new-yorkers-jane-mayer.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/lit-fest-preview-the-new-yorkers-jane-mayer.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarie Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clear and passionate prose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lit Fest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writers in Peace and War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All people, New Yorker writer Jane Mayer reminds us, not just Americans, are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday @ Lit Fest: Iranian-born Writer Dalia Sofer</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/tomorrow-lit-fest-iranian-born-writer-dalia-sofer.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/tomorrow-lit-fest-iranian-born-writer-dalia-sofer.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Sofer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Westbrook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU Literary Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Septembers of Shiraz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Westbrook speaks with Dalia Sofer about her writing process, finding humor in grave situations, and whether or not she considers herself a spokesperson for Iran.]]></description>
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		<title>Hide the Philistines and Paper Wasps: ODU&#8217;s Literary Festival is Back</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/hide-the-philistines-and-paper-wasps-odus-literary-festival-is-back.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/hide-the-philistines-and-paper-wasps-odus-literary-festival-is-back.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[32nd year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Peery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Bowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meghan Hoyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Almond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writers in Peace and War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's right now through Friday. The theme is "Writers in Peace and War." With writers like Steve Almond, Mark Bowden, and Jane Mayer coming to our sleepy ultra militarized area, expect (literary) bullets to fly.]]></description>
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		<title>In Honor of the Family Dollar (a paean)</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/in-honor-of-the-family-dollar-a-paean.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/in-honor-of-the-family-dollar-a-paean.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I spent 61 glorious dollars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Levine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oh my God she's gorgeous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Park Place]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A poetical love song to our local Family Dollar in Park Place. ]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection: The Open Mic at The Venue on 35th Street</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/reflection-the-open-mic-at-the-venue-on-35th-street.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/reflection-the-open-mic-at-the-venue-on-35th-street.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Skye Zentz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[35th Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belly dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blowfish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hello is it me you're looking for]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hootie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus chant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk streets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Only at The Venue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Mic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roxanne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Venue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you go Sheldon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the night we had a self-proclaimed former hustler leading us in a chant of "When I say Jesus, you say Christ!" "Jesus." "CHRIST!" "Jesus." "CHRIST!" ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Muse Sick: Sound People</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/music-blogs/free-muse-sick-sound-people.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/music-blogs/free-muse-sick-sound-people.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Booker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mp3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sound people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.24sevencities.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/soundpeople_teatime_final_mp3tag21-150x150.jpg" alt="soundpeople_teatime_final_mp3tag21" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5004" />]]></description>
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		<title>Further Complications</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/music-blogs/further-complications.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/music-blogs/further-complications.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Booker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[further complications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jarvis cocker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dropping today, Cocker's new album is called Further Complications, and that simple phrase has resonance to me here.]]></description>
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		<title>No Vengeance for this Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/no-vengeance-for-mom.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/no-vengeance-for-mom.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 01:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grandbaby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vengeance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a sweet Mother&#8217;s Day weekend full of offspring and offspring&#8217;s offspring. I’m just back from seeing my daughter.  I spent a few days in California with her, her husband and my 10 month-old grandson, aka Baby Danger. I’m arranging as much face time with the baby as I possibly can before my daughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Telling is Better than Showing</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/sometimes-telling-is-better-than-showing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/sometimes-telling-is-better-than-showing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flashback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I've Loved You So Long]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen Scott Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Getting Married]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been watching movies.  Two this past week:  Rachel Getting Married starring Anne Hathaway, and I&#8217;ve Loved You So Long starring Kristen Scott Thomas.  Both of these films quietly portray the complicated life between siblings, yet my biggest takeaway involves what the films didn&#8217;t portray. Flashback. Neither film uses flashback to reveal or illuminate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Suck and I’m One of Them</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/people-suck-and-i%e2%80%99m-one-of-them.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/people-suck-and-i%e2%80%99m-one-of-them.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord of the Flies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sympathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I lost two important things on Tuesday night:  my electricity and my humanity. But first, I lost my cookies. I had been sick most of the night before, and I woke up Tuesday sunk inside my own feverish skin.  I canceled my classes, and shrouded myself under my fuzzy comforter, creeping out of bed only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SevenCities, SevenQuestions: Local Heroes</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/sevencities-sevenquestions-local-heroes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/sevencities-sevenquestions-local-heroes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Booker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SevenCities Seven Questions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.localheroescomics.com/store.html">Local Heroes Comics</a> is one of the brightest new businesses enlivening Ghent culture.  Fearless leader Greg Thompson was kind enough to answer seven ill-considered questions for us.]]></description>
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		<title>Regrets?  Hell, yes!</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/regrets-hell-yes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/regrets-hell-yes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford Madox Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop-Psych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regrets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syllogism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Good Soldier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who doesn&#8217;t believe in regrets.  She insists that if I&#8217;m happy now, I can&#8217;t regret my bad experiences, because I have been taught by my pain and it’s part of what makes me who I am today.  It sounds so pop-psych to me, but she&#8217;s smart, and she sets her argument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I Still Be a Grandmother Even if I Don&#8217;t Believe My Daughter Had Sex?</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/can-i-still-be-a-grandmother-even-if-i-dont-believe-my-daughter-had-sex.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/can-i-still-be-a-grandmother-even-if-i-dont-believe-my-daughter-had-sex.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grandmother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonogram]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m tired tonight, so I&#8217;m posting an older column that I&#8217;ll be playing off of in a new post Wednesday. * Can I Still Be a Grandmother Even if I Don&#8217;t Believe My Daughter Had Sex? They tell me that I am going to be a grandmother next month.  I guess it could be true.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Darwin Day, Especially to the Meme Crowd</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/happy-darwin-day.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/happy-darwin-day.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darwin Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientific American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Selfish Gene]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and I, for one, am celebrating. Okay, well maybe not celebrating, as in woo-hoo martini party; but I am taking notice. Just by coincidence, I&#8217;m reading (for the first time) Richard Dawkin&#8217;s 1970&#8242;s classic The Selfish Gene.  It was a gift given to my youngest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confession of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freelancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I&#8217;ve been working four close-to-my-heart writing projects, and teaching five college composition courses. Me and the words &#8212; we&#8217;re tight these days. The only word I’m not involved with lately is: &#8220;No,&#8221;  as in &#8220;No, I&#8217;m too busy to do that.&#8221;  I think it comes from being a freelancing adjunct consultant &#8212; which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send Us Your Greatest Pictures of Virginia Beach and Portsmouth Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portsmouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is my original post, and I have received a bunch of photos, for which I am thankful.  I have received none from Portsmouth yet &#8211; so please folks, snap them and send them!  Also, Beach people &#8211; keep &#8216;em coming.  I don&#8217;t yet have photos that represent all of the aspects of Virginia Beach.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Consequences of the Flesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-esteem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“[Your mother] created you, so you always owe her and can never really repay the debt. Being born is like asking Don Corleone for a favor.”  &#8211; Dennis Miller * My mother tells me that is wasn’t her intention that my older brother and I be born only sixteen months apart. “But,” she adds. “It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send Us Your Greatest Pictures of Virginia Beach and Portsmouth</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/send-us-your-greatest-pictures-of-virginia-beach-and-portsmouth.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inhabit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Cities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few months, 24sevencities will attempt to capture the essence of each of the seven cities, and highlight a few of the best places to be and see.  I&#8217;ll write these stories, so they&#8217;ll have my quirky perspective &#8212; but I hope you&#8217;ll help me. We&#8217;d like to get YOUR point of view, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy Tribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sisterhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Red Tent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I arrived exactly on time at the gynecologist’s office for my yearly poke.  It wasn’t easy – the rush from work in soul-sucking seven cities traffic,  and my anxiety about being even one minute late, combined with my resentment over just how anxious I&#8217;ve become about a measly minute.  It’s a paranoia linked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Novel Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/uncategorized/more-novel-ideas-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atonement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Button]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I just told George, my point in the short article “Novel Ideas” was that literature is not removed from those who reject the genre.  But I never meant to suggest that Hollywood truly loves books.  Hollywood loves books like the wife-beater loves his family: he might think he does, but ego and insecurity have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novel Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/1072.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bennington Writing Seminars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glengarry GlenRoss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liam Rector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Devil Wear Prada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of many residencies at the Bennington Writing Seminars, the late Liam Rector would screen this clip from Glengarry GlenRoss, leaving at least some of the new students squinting and wondering exactly what he meant by its display.  It’s the “Always Be Closing” scene, with Alec Baldwin aggressively berating the sales staff to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Updike</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/john-updike.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Updike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Consciousness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prolific American writer John Updike has died of lung cancer at age 76.  Internet eulogies abound. I read him. I read him throughout most of the real reading years of my life.  I read the Rabbit books and the short stories and much of the rest.  I praised a lot of his writing; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now Starring in a Blog Near You: The Character ME</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/now-starring-in-a-blog-near-you-the-character-me.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/now-starring-in-a-blog-near-you-the-character-me.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KISS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reality and the blogosphere – I’ve written about this dysfunctional relationship before. (Here and here.) And I usually maintain that we writers and social networkers in cyberspace often capture emotional truth, but objective reality invariably suffers. So while I do hope folks relate when I joke about “giving the sex talk” to my teenagers, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Fears are Memories of Other Fears</title>
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		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/all-fears-are-memories-of-other-fears-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksandar Hemon’s novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lazarus Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m obsessed with this one line from Aleksandar Hemon’s novel The Lazarus Project: “All fears are memories of other fears . . .”  I’m not quite through with the 294-page book yet, but I’m a good ways along.  This line was on page 68.  I need to get over it. All fears are memories of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INAUGURATION SNOW DAY!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/inauguration-snow-day.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inauguration Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overreach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snow Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snow in Hampton Roads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is that not THE best combination ever? My lunch was made, I’d gulped my coffee and I was glumly heading to my car, already dreading the messy evening commute home from Norfolk.  (It’s a foul commute even before you add snow and slush and ice.)  And then my gloating 9th grader, who’d already been pardoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Go With the Beer Can</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/to-go-with-the-beer-can.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Can Chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strawberry Spinach Salad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those who saw the Beer Can Chicken recipe in the print version of Taste and were referred to my blog for the accompanying Strawberry Spinach Salad recipe &#8212; here it is below.  You can get the Beer Can Chicken recipe (and see photos of both) here. Strawberry Spinach Salad * ½ cup of white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danger is his middle name]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grandmotherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Separation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Danger Baby’s coming to town this summer.  (For those who don’t know, Danger really is my grandson&#8217;s middle name.)  He’ll be about 13 months old when he arrives in Virginia Beach, and he’s staying with me for about a month, while his parents, my daughter and son-in-law, do research in the Middle East.  So, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overreach, baby</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/overreach-baby.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Rastivo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[24sevencities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overreaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday 24SevenCities.  I have a grandiose &#8212; and slightly subversive &#8212; wish for you today. But first, a quick introduction. I&#8217;m Leigh Rastivo, and my blog will center around two topics, in equal measure: modern motherhood and writing and literature.  I&#8217;m thinking local book club, and some podcasting on literature.  There&#8217;s a lot in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction: Reasons to Stay Inside this Weekend</title>
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		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/flash-fiction-reasons-to-stay-inside-this-weekend.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dillon Tripp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The MacArthur Mall was quiet. Just moaning and scraping now. In the movies, when these types of things go down, everyone always runs for the mall. I think it’s bred into us somehow, like a cultural identity rooted in remake after remake of Romero films. You see them, you run. Where do you run; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction: The First Kiss Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/flash-fiction-the-first-kiss-goodbye.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/flash-fiction-the-first-kiss-goodbye.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Quam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Kate and Jillian heard at school about the Halloween party at their friend Jamie’s house in Thoroughgood, they immediately decided on their costumes: Thelma and Louise.  No one in their grade would get the reference, probably.  The movie was older than they were, but it had been their favorite movie ever since elementary school.  [...]]]></description>
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