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		<title>What We&#8217;re Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emma Komlos-Hrobsky (Assistant Editor, Tin House Magazine): I just finished Tin House Books&#8217;s own Me and Mr. Booker by Cory Taylor. I&#8217;m generally a slow reader, but I drunk this book down in one swift, gleeful gulp. The eponymous Mr. Booker, a dapper English film professor whose flirtatious coyness might actually be avoidance, had me thinking of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For my Uncle Danny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  I was slapping at the welts on my shins one green evening when you told me to suck on the head of a match. Sulfur, you said, would get in my blood and keep the mosquitoes away. One match a month was all it took, you told me. I went back to catching fireflies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Slippage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Greenman’s new novel, The Slippage, is a book about marriage and its discontents—not to mention the suburbs, charts, driving in the suburbs, and the limits of language. The Slippage urges the reader to examine the relationships in their life based on love and friendship. I recently met up with Ben at a busy Starbucks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25451/the-slippage.html</link>
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		<title>On Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sit here at my desk in Northwest Portland, in a lime-green apartment full of skylights, sandwiched between Tin House Magazine and Tin House Books, reading the dynamic and very brave poems my grad students at Portland State are writing—I find myself thinking, in the most basic terms, about what it means to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Maggie Nelson Seminar – Exercise #3: Poem(s)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hope you have enjoyed the Tin House Seminar: Maggie Nelson thus far. For those of you new to class, read a full description of the project. Last week, the seminar read  The Red Parts: A Memoir and completed the second writing assignment.  If you didn&#8217;t get a chance to read The Red Parts this week, these supplements will get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25282/the-maggie-nelson-seminar-exercise-3-poems.html</link>
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		<title>Crib Notes For Your Book Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[jjjjj As Stephen Sparks previously mentioned, a good number of us book lovers like to go around talking about novels we have never read. I mean, who has time to read The Flamethrowers when this is happening? Still, it can be a tad bit embarrassing to get caught with your literary pants down by someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25211/how-to-discuss-a-book-you-didnt-read.html</link>
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		<title>Our Own Collaboration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Berlin, Germany May 7, 2013 Dear Friend, I have arrived in Berlin after a short stay in Reggio-Emilia, Italy. There at the Collezionemaramotti, I attended the opening of Jason Dodge’s first permanent sculpture titled “A Permanently Open Window”  and joined him in conversation about the piece, our ongoing collaboration in conversation about visual art and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25290/25290.html</link>
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		<title>THE SCI-FI SQUAD!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; About the Artist, Marlowe Dobbe: &#160; I am a Portland, Oregon native currently attending The Pacific Northwest College of Art, majoring in illustration. My work is stylized, greatly considered, and often times humorous. I work mainly in digital, but I frequently include elements of my physical work in my finished pieces. I love making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25189/the-sci-fi-squad.html</link>
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		<title>What We&#8217;re Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Masie Cochran (Associate Editor, Tin House Books): I&#8217;m reading Airships by Barry Hannah. I read this collection in high school, again in college, and keep coming back to it every few years.  I love &#8220;Testimony of Pilot, &#8220;(take a second and read An Amazing Sentence Shape by Kate Brittain), &#8220;Green Gets It,&#8221; and &#8220;Our Second Home.&#8221; But this week, for whatever reason, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25275/what-were-reading-15.html</link>
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		<title>Feats of Strength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A strongman is lifting my car, his hands bolted tight to the front bumper. His trunky thighs and buttocks are facing streetward, and several women in the neighborhood have set up lawn chairs and are watching the spectacle from their front yards. His grunts are loud, like falling timber, and the birds perched on the roof have fled in search of friendlier shingles.]]></description>
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