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		<title>The Unsophisticated Travel Writer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Travel broadens the mind, but first you must have the mind.”
G.K.Chesterton
Travel writers lead romantic lives. They explore the world at other people’s expense, and they don’t even need to invent their material. They simply describe the places they visit. Anybody can do that.
You know as well as I do that the above paragraph is nonsense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show and Tell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Education has produced a vast population
able to read, but unable to distinguish what
is worth reading.”
G.M.Trevelyan
One weekend I was returning from work at the radio station in Connecticut to my home in Long Island, a journey that involves a ferry ride. It was early evening and the bar on the boat was completely empty. I perched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is with books as with men: a very small
number play a great part, the rest are
lost in the multitude.”
Voltaire

There’s a character in the Peanuts cartoon strip called Pigpen – a little boy who attracts dirt like a magnet. I am a Pigpen for books. They come at me from all directions and they stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermediate Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For writers of a certain age, the most nostalgic sound in the world is the irregular clatter of an old manual typewriter, being used by somebody who can&#8217;t type. I have a bunch of typewriters, fully-functioning antiques that provide a reassuring link to the past. My favorite  machine is a Royal, manufactured about 1949. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Room of One&#8217;s Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The ideal view for daily writing,
hour on hour, is the blank brick wall of a
 cold storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch
of sky will do, cloudless if possible.”
Edna Ferber
Writing should be the ultimately portable activity. The stereotype of the author, reinforced by numerous advertisements for writing courses, is of the creative spirit freed from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Keeping Quiet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I  started on the somewhat daunting task of reading The Autobiography of Mark Twain. This work has been assembled over many years by the Mark Twain Project, and is not so much an autobiography as a cleverly edited collection of notes and fragments that Mr. Clemens left behind when he died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions for Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of writers all over the world will be making their New Year’s resolutions right now or (if you read this any time after January 7) contemplating the futility of their good intentions.
It’s not just writers of course, but everybody. But in my very personal experience writers tend to have a limited repertoire of resolutions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an essayist may have been fashionable in the eighteenth century, but today it feels like the literary equivalent of playing the lute or weaving on the hand loom – an archaic pastime for nostalgic dilettantes. The action is elsewhere, in fiction. So why not write fiction?
Believe me I’ve tried, starting when I was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers as Speakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I do any kind of public speaking I’m struck by the difference between the words that we write and the words that we say. I first learned this almost forty years ago when I first began teaching, but it still comes as a surprise. Things that are easy to write may be difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Thought that Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a book worth reading – Except When I Write by Arthur Krystal. He is a well-known essayist and critic (New Yorker, Harpers, etc.) and has collected together twelve of his best essays and critical reviews from 2005 to 2009.
The first essay alone is worth the price – “When Writers Speak.” In it Krystal offers [...]]]></description>
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