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		<title>Review: 24/7 by Susan DiPlacido</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2005 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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What do you get when Chick Lit intersects Chuck Palahniuk?  
You get relationship-based fiction with a tough, gritty edge.  You get characters who aren’t stock; whose relationship to themselves and each other are punctuated by difficult, murky truths and startling self-recognition.  This is the stuff of Susan DiPlacido’s genre-bending novel, 24/7.
The storyline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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“… so long as we are possessed by experience that is distinguished by its intensity and its episodic nature, we will have the short story in our literature.”  John Cheever, “Why I Write Short Stories” in Newsweek, October 30, 1978.
The characters in Steve Almond’s new collection of stories can be described, on the whole, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday To&#8230; Us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s exciting to see that a publication has staying power, and finding milestones, like birthdays, makes it even more fun.  As a year-old publication, The Beat has gotten a great make-over with a new look and format.  It’s a lot to celebrate!
We’re also excited about our contributors.  So many talented people send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iconography: A Writers Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Neville, Iconography: A Writer’s Meditation. Bloomington &#038; Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003.  $15.95 paper (ISBN 0-253-21614-1), 192 pages.
Anyone familiar with Susan Neville’s prose glimpses her Indiana –people in small Midwestern towns waiting for earthquakes and John Mellencamp art exhibits.  But in her book, Iconography: A Writer’s Meditation, she delves into mapping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeways &amp; Aqueducts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Harms, Freeways and Aqueducts.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004. US$13.95 paper (ISBN 0-88748-404-2), 87 pages.
James Harms is the author of three earlier books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press: Quarters, The Joy Addict, and Modern Ocean, all of which are filled with thoughtful, well-crafted poems.  In his most recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Beat-ings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beat would like to welcome Renee K Nicholson on board as editor &#8211; you&#8217;ll be seeing more of her work and reviews on The Beat in the near future. We&#8217;ll leave it up to Renee to tell you more&#8230;
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Hopefully you&#8217;ve read my review of Steve Almond&#8217;s Candy Freak, have gotten a copy and read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candy Freak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
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Steven Almond, Candy Freak: A Journey Through The Chocolate Underbelly of America.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2004. US$21.95 cloth (ISBN 1-56512-421-9), 226 pages.
If you log on to Steve Almond’s website, www.stevenalmond.com, you can read the accounts of his readers’ obsessions with candy, inspired by his book, Candy Freak: A Journey Through The [...]]]></description>
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