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		<title>Comic Life: Explaining that Graphic Novels Aren&#8217;t Porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian K. Vaughan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comic books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex Machina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphic novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trueblood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Y: The Last Man]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Local Heroes owner Greg Thompson explains that, no, he is not a pornographer, but a good old-fashioned comic book store owner. And actually, no matter what you like to read, there's a graphic novel to suit your taste.]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction by John McManus: Mr. Gas</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/arts-blogs/literature-blogs/fiction-by-john-mcmanus-mr-gas.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McManus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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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>Seven Reasons Why I Write Nonfiction (First Sentences of Novels I Never Completed)</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/seven-reasons-why-i-write-nonfiction-first-sentences-of-novels-i-never-completed.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Pearson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seven: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember to whisper, otherwise you might be in for an ass whipping on a regular basis.”]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction(?): Norfolk&#8217;s Bloodiest: Jack the Ripper</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/fiction-norfolks-bloodiest-jack-the-ripper.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Cook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arsenic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jack the ripper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Maybrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the taste of arsenic on my tongue, I’d fantasize of following one of these sirens down to the water’s edge. As she watches the water, I'd slide up silently behind her, wrapping one arm around her waist, the other across her chest... ]]></description>
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		<title>An Evening with Ira Glass: A Storytelling Style Older Than Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/an-evening-with-ira-glass-a-storytelling-style-older-than-jesus.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/an-evening-with-ira-glass-a-storytelling-style-older-than-jesus.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz McClendon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ira glass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think I was alone in my temptation to throw an undergarment or two at Mr. Glass, as slick at storytelling as Elvis was at hip-swiveling. ]]></description>
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		<title>In the Pipeline: The Norfolk Consortium</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/in-the-pipeline-the-norfolk-consortium.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/in-the-pipeline-the-norfolk-consortium.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visual Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk consortium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Virginia Stage Company; The Virginia Arts Festival; The Virginia Symphony; The Virginia Opera; The Chrysler Museum; The MacArthur Memorial; Norfolk Botanical Garden; Festevents; Nauticus; NATO Fes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The big arts and culture institutions in Norfolk are coming together in hopes of growing the scene. Here are some ideas they should consider implementing. ]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: REDRAIL</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/entertainment/preview-redrail.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/entertainment/preview-redrail.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visual Arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks of performance on The Tide, and art around it. Plus a deal on 50% off Tide tickets for opening night.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for the Locally Purchased Book</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-case-for-the-locally-purchased-book.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-case-for-the-locally-purchased-book.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Pishko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american booksellers association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buying local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independant book shops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie bound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[le marche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike D'Orso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norfolk stationary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail alliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At Prince Books, our displays reflect what Hampton Roads is reading right now, not what is dictated by co-op money from publishers.]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: Jazz Music on the Radio Late at Night</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/poetry-jazz-music-on-the-radio-late-at-night.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/poetry-jazz-music-on-the-radio-late-at-night.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amalfiphotography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Or maybe that you are in a paperback bar, where the women
wear polka-dot dresses and the men take their hats off when they come
inside and everyone is alone.  But it is not sad.  It is slow.]]></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>Short Story: &#8220;The Moments Before William Realizes the Humiliation That His Life Is&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/short-story-the-moments-before-william-realizes-the-humiliation-that-his-life-is.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/short-story-the-moments-before-william-realizes-the-humiliation-that-his-life-is.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mayor Will Huberdude</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["'I saw Dad eating Mom in the dressing room.  She's long gone. In his belly.'  I point up to the wedding figures at the top of the cake. 'He ate her up just like a toy.'"]]></description>
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		<title>This Review Brought to You by Bebopareebop Rhubarb Pie</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/entertainment/this-review-brought-to-you-by-bebopareebop-rhubarb-pie.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/entertainment/this-review-brought-to-you-by-bebopareebop-rhubarb-pie.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Prairie Home Companion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garrison Keillor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Matte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Public Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ntelos Pavilion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portsmouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Love Tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virginia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I realized that’s what Keillor gives us--He gives us ourselves, our memories and our vintage tunes, reminiscing about days of cooling pies on windowsills, when kids could safely ride their bikes blocks away as long as they were home before the street lights came on, when young lovers listened to love songs on the radio and dreamed of kissing, nothing more.]]></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>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like to write, edit, and make an impact in your community? Check this out. ]]></description>
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		<title>Prose: &#8220;400 Hotels&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/the-up-and-up-fourhundred-hotels.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/the-up-and-up-fourhundred-hotels.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie Dowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hotel is leaking and the little girl thinks it's funny to throw her glass of milk onto the carpet. At the check-in desk, two men shake hands - one of them is on fire. The deal has been made.]]></description>
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		<title>Poem: My Witness is the Empty Sky</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/poem-my-witness-is-the-empty-sky.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/poem-my-witness-is-the-empty-sky.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Villagran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newport news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Written while between cars, hitching through Newport News.]]></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>Author Interview: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/author-interview-the-rise-of-collaborative-consumption.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/blogs/author-interview-the-rise-of-collaborative-consumption.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Cothran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaborative Consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Botsman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharing is Contagious infographic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities.” – Rachel Botsman]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Up and Up&#8221;: Daniel Pearlman</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/theupandup.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Pearlman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pizza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lenin lifts a knife, parces a piece
in half. He who is hungriest
gets the biggest portion. The box
is satisfied with its emptiness.
]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpt: Mike D&#8217;Orso &amp; Ted Danson&#8217;s &#8220;OCEANA&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/excerpt-mike-dorso-ted-dansons-oceana.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 18:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike D'Orso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glimpse into Mike D'Orso and Ted Danson's "OCEANA."]]></description>
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		<title>Buds of May: Poet John Rosenman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 05:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Rosenman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[burning like blind meteors
in empty nights where I kneel
sightless before my own stranger
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		<title>The Magic of the Mini Comic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many chances do you get to watch someone create an entire fiction story from beginning to end? Mini-Comics Day is April 9th.]]></description>
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		<title>Get on the School Bus: Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair Bomphray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grunwell gives the 2011 Darden Lecture in Education on April 6th at 7:30 p.m. at Old Dominion University. ]]></description>
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		<title>My Girls. Our Year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poems from the Park Place Child Life Center, and Mary's story of following through. ]]></description>
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		<title>PPCLC Writing: I Am</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one who challenges the power of automobiles, standing boldly in street centers.]]></description>
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		<title>PPCLC Writing: I Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that God loves each and everyone of us, good or bad.]]></description>
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		<title>Literary: &#8220;[we left the image]&#8220;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Pineda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Pineda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by celebrated Chesapeake native Joe Pineda. ]]></description>
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		<title>Literary: &#8220;Bad Mother&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lydia Netzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving around. Monitoring the playground. Watching, for another example, essentially the same swimming lesson one has watched three times a week for the past two years.
]]></description>
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		<title>Top Graphic Novels and Comics of 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/top-graphic-novels-and-comics-of-2010.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[X'ed Out, Revolver, Monsters, Duncan the Wonder Dog, and more from the owner of Norfolk's Local Heroes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Writer: Arthur Hoffman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The bird departed, gone the way it had come, and the man, tiny and feeble under the immense valley sky, looked up in rage.  What did it all mean?"]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Poet: Dr. Frederick Lubich</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederick Lubich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["From Ancient Ithaca to Norfolk, Virginia - Waiting for Her Sailor to Come Home" ]]></description>
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		<title>A Chat with Mystic River &amp; The Wire&#8217;s Dennis Lehane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony DeLateur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“No one wins. One side just loses more slowly." Lehane reads Friday as part of ODU's literary festival. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine State: Reading Sarah McCoy’s The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/sunshine-state-reading-sarah-mccoy%e2%80%99s-the-time-it-snowed-in-puerto-rico.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarie Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we forget what it’s like to be a child we have truly lost our joy, and McCoy seems in no danger of losing that emotion. ]]></description>
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		<title>Highways of Connectivity: Travels with Author Ted Conover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Gatlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The job of the travel writer is to find meaning that can bring the physical journey to life–to discern the characters, places, and events that will help it add up to a story."]]></description>
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		<title>Buzz Saw: A Chat with Pulitzer Winner (and Lebron Critic) Buzz Bissinger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I did it for the money," said Bissinger, who was a reporter in Norfolk from 1977- 78. "Is it the best thing I've done in my life? No. Is it the worst? Yes. But sometimes writers do things for money."]]></description>
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		<title>From Death Row to Where We Are: A Chat with Wilbert Rideau</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rideau’s spent 44 years at one of the country’s most notorious prisons and detailed his experiences in his book, In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Randall Kenan, Intrepid Explorer, Humble Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norton Girault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randall Kenan is reading as part of ODU's Literary Festival today, Wednesday, Oct 6, at 4pm at the Village Bookstore.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Blake Bailey, &#8220;A Chronicler of Middle-Class Chroniclers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caramine White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The better you get to know someone, the less likely you are to deplore their faults."]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Part 2</title>
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		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-conversation-with-bonnie-jo-campbell-part-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Staves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Writers are actually not the storytellers... The writers are the ones who fail to tell the joke well. They fail to tell the anecdote or story, and then they go home, and they spend three hours writing it and getting it right."]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Wounds and Puffball Mushrooms: A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/battle-wounds-and-puffball-mushrooms-a-conversation-with-bonnie-jo-campbell.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/battle-wounds-and-puffball-mushrooms-a-conversation-with-bonnie-jo-campbell.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Staves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Jo Campell is reading at 2pm Monday at ODU as part of the 33rd Annual Literary Festival. ]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Poet: Elaine Mcferron</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/featured-poet-elaine-mcferron.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/featured-poet-elaine-mcferron.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Mcferron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["On Franklin Street just off the by-pass, / equal distance between sound and ocean,"]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Stuff White People Like&#8217;s Christian Lander</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/interview-stuff-white-people-likes-christian-lander.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/interview-stuff-white-people-likes-christian-lander.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuff white people like]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The whole purpose of a PhD and an iPad is to have something physical that you can show to people to prove you ARE better than them."]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Poet: Richard Perkins</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/featured-poet-richard-perkins-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/featured-poet-richard-perkins-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[" my scarecrow… / plays table board baseball in my memory: Garden Child, my mother’s swing-set /
is dark, waiting for the wind to slip its hand under its skirt."]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Poet: Noah Renn</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/featured-poet-noah-renn.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/featured-poet-noah-renn.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Renn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["How pride and sweat came / from laborers who were happy / to make the statue in his likeness"]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Poet: Jeffrey Hecker</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/featured-poet-jeffrey-hecker-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/featured-poet-jeffrey-hecker-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Hecker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She asks me too loudly why she’s seeing only /medicine cabinets -- as if I can’t see them also.]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Poet: Maxwell Despard</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/featured-poet-maxwell-despard.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/featured-poet-maxwell-despard.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maxwell Despard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The five o'clock news foretold / mad haruspex in Green Run. / Cassandra pleading in a pant suit..."]]></description>
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		<title>A Chat with Pulitizer Prize Winner in Poetry Rae Armantrout</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-chat-with-pulitizer-prize-winner-in-poetry-rae-armantrout.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-chat-with-pulitizer-prize-winner-in-poetry-rae-armantrout.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["We don’t think language is a clear window through which the world can be presented. Or, if language is a window, we’ve learned that it’s best to examine the glass and the frame."]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Children&#8217;s Book</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/how-to-write-a-childrens-book.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/how-to-write-a-childrens-book.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Kilpatrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheila Kilpatrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some helpful tips from author Sheila Kilpatrick.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>ODU English Dept Nabs Pulitzer Finalist Blake Bailey</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/odu-english-dept-nabs-pulitzer-finalist-blake-bailey.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/odu-english-dept-nabs-pulitzer-finalist-blake-bailey.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 20:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blake Bailey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU MFA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ODU's writing program--excuse my bias--is one to be reckoned with certainly on a regional level, and possibly also nationally.]]></description>
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		<title>Nikki Giovanni: “The only thing to connect tragedy is love.”</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/nikki-giovanni.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/nikki-giovanni.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Kiley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Poetry will always be the backbone of it all,” Giovanni said. “We continue to be part of the truth-telling, bringing out the best in people.”]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-conversation-with-kay-ryan-united-states-poet-laureate.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-conversation-with-kay-ryan-united-states-poet-laureate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luisa Igloria</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kay Ryan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The head of ODU's creative writing program asks immense questions about being a self-taught poet, revelations in the Rockies, the writing process, and impossible pangs of the mind and heart.]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-magic-of-sympathy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-magic-of-sympathy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz McClendon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books A Million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Rothfuss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Rothfuss will be reading at Prince Books in Norfolk on Friday and at Books A Million in VB on Saturday.]]></description>
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		<title>New Fiction: Coinjock</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/new-fiction-coinjock.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/new-fiction-coinjock.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McManus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it’s hard to believe the world existed before I arrived in it. Apparently, others who suffer from the belief are as ashamed of it as I. Life goes badly enough sooner or later that most lose faith.]]></description>
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		<title>Local Profile: Author Mike D&#8217;Orso</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/local-profile-author-mike-dorso.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/local-profile-author-mike-dorso.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holly Wielkoszewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holly Wielkoszewski sits down with D'Orso to chat with him about his path to becoming a writer, what he finds inspirational, and “the big hurt” inside us all.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#124; Ben Yagoda&#8217;s &#8216;Memoir: A History&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/book-review-ben-yagodas-memoir-a-history.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/book-review-ben-yagodas-memoir-a-history.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Pearson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tobias Wolff once said that “memory has its own story to tell.” Apparently, memoir does too, and Ben Yagoda proves to be skillful ghost writer.]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Graphic Novels of the Decade</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-best-graphic-novels-of-the-decade.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-best-graphic-novels-of-the-decade.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[avengers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphic novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[punisher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local Heroes' Greg Thompson lists his top 25.]]></description>
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		<title>The Books and Authors that Mattered in the 2000s</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/best-of-the-decade-literature.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/best-of-the-decade-literature.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holly Wielkoszewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Da Vinci Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freakonomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian McEwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orhan Pamuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie Meyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Book Thief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value and identity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holly from Prince Books talks about the brilliant authors, compelling histories, and captivating narratives that have forever changed the literary landscape in America.]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with TEDxNASA Speaker Nancy Vogl</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-conversation-with-tedxnasa-speaker-nancy-vogl.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/a-conversation-with-tedxnasa-speaker-nancy-vogl.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Serrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaker, singer-songwriter, and author of Am I A Color Too? Nancy Vogl comes to Hampton Roads for tomorrow's TEDxNASA at the Ferguson Center.]]></description>
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		<title>An Imagined Interview with Mary Karr</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/an-imagined-interview-with-mary-karr.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/an-imagined-interview-with-mary-karr.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Pearson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cherry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ginger ale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Karr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU Literary Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-nuptial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Augustine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Liar's Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobias Wolff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Me: You contemplated suicide at one point? Mary: At a few points. As I said, “suicide is an idea that seeps into your lungs like nerve gas.” It seemed like a good solution to all my problems. I thought, “death – now, there’s a one-stop shopping idea.”]]></description>
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		<title>The One and Only David Sedaris</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/david-sedaris.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/david-sedaris.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Serrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Sedaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barrel Fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays on Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Me Talk Pretty One Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacha Baron Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SantaLand Diaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strangers with Candy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Talent Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This American Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When You Are Engulfed in Flames]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The reason I'd say David Sedaris is a genius is not simply because he is one of the greatest humorists of our time, but because the source of his humor is so real and universal that both my mother and I get it, and we can both appreciate and love it for the same reason.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Bourguignon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Funny how I end up leaving him on Independence Day, like the woman in that country song. But unlike some cheesy music video where I confront him and leave while he tries to stop me, I’m slinking off while he is out to sea. How can I do this?]]></description>
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		<title>Local Review: Bright Star</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/local-review-bright-star.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Hayes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbie Cornish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brawne and Keats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Star movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[composing a poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[falling in love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Campion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[period piece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slippery and seducing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Falling in love and composing a poem cover a lot of the same emotional ground: the experiences are both sensual; both animate the imagination; both often invoke doubt and insecurity; both are exhilarating, exhausting, and sometimes excruciating.]]></description>
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		<title>Now We&#8217;re Cooking: Steve Almond Closes ODU&#8217;s Lit Fest</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/now-were-cooking-steve-almond-closes-odus-lit-fest.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/now-were-cooking-steve-almond-closes-odus-lit-fest.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony DeLateur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candyfreak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Almond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t live like a normal human being; I live like Tony Montana in Scarface. As for my readers, I’m just happy they haven’t been deported yet.]]></description>
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		<title>Want To Have Your Book Published? Here&#8217;s How.</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/want-to-have-a-book-published-heres-how.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/want-to-have-a-book-published-heres-how.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Scaccia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debut novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first time publication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manuscripts dying lonely deaths in drawers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masters of Fine Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODU MFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Rican heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah McCoy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scaring the dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaye Areheart Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I opened the box from my publisher, saw my book, and bawled like a baby," said recent ODU MFA grad Sarah McCoy about the culmination of the process. ]]></description>
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		<title>Call to Writers</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/call-to-writers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Serrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This month's Muse co-sponsored literature contest calls for creative non-fiction essays. The deadline is October 16. The guest editor is best-selling author Janine Latus. ]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/poetry-finalists.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AltDaily Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The top four finalists of our Muse co-sponsored poetry contest.]]></description>
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		<title>The Best of Hampton Roads&#8217; Poetry</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-best-of-hampton-roads-poetry.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/the-best-of-hampton-roads-poetry.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Serrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Laziness" by Jacob Wilson was chosen by guest editor Tim Seibles as the winner of our Muse co-sponsored poetry contest. Read all five finalists and details on our next lit contest--non-fiction essays, with guest judge Janine Latus.]]></description>
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		<title>Call to Poets</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/arts/literature/call-to-poets.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AltDaily Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muse and 24SevenCities announce a call for poetry submissions in a partnership to promote literature and celebration of the Seven Cities. Guest editor Tim Seibles will make the final selection of featured poetry.]]></description>
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		<title>Local Heroes&#8217; Greg Thompson on Watchmen</title>
		<link>http://www.altdaily.com/features/entertainment/film/local-heroes-greg-thompson-on-watchmen.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comic book store owner Greg Thompson compares Watchmen to Citizen Kane, and it's not a good thing.]]></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>Mr. Gas &#124; Page 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McManus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s bird shit on your head, said Shawn above him. Jason rubbed his hair quickly with both hands. Psych, said Shawn. What&#8217;s psych? It&#8217;s a lie. Jason looked at his hands. He squinted up at Shawn, who was descending the ladder now. Did the price go up? he asked. We ran out of that kind [...]]]></description>
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