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	<title>OF A GOLDEN AGE</title>
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		<title>Cannonball #33: Atonement by Ian McEwan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great analogy in mind to open my review of Ian McEwan&#8217;s demi-epic Atonement, but it was late last night right before bed and I&#8217;ve forgotten. I&#8217;m sure it was about a time someone misunderstood or made a halting error, because that&#8217;s the primary thread running through the book: How the appearance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannonball #32: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll take &#8220;Things that hit close to home&#8221; for $500: A very small university, Larken catered to the privileged painters, writers, critics, poets, and performance artists of the future. The teaching was not so much rigorous as expansive, the teachers stretching their courses to the point of deformity in order to encompass the whimsy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard: I flatten them out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Close is a hero of mine, both on a personal level and an artistic level. His massive, hyperrealistic portraits of people both famous and not are some of my favorite pieces &#8212; completed obsessively, layer by layer, on a huge scale that demands close scrutiny. After a traumatic brain incident changed his body and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: Important women have become immortal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nytpicker pointed out a phenomenon I could never have imagined: Gender disparity in the obituaries published by the New York Times. The nytpicks quote obituaries editor Bill McDonald&#8217;s 2006 statement that because of the equality gap of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, the prominent people dying today are mostly white men. So they checked back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannonball #31: The Master Butchers Singing Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I complained about slogging through a dud, and the best way to cleanse the ol&#8217; book palate is with a real barn-burner. In a pile of stuff on one of my shelves I found a book my mom lent me: The Master Butchers Singing Club. My mom reads more than anyone I know [...]]]></description>
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