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	<title>The Beat &#187; Tony R. Rodriguez</title>
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		<title>Steer Toward Rock: a book review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steer Toward Rock  by Fae Myenne Ng,
Hyperion, May 2008, 256 pages, hardcover
$23.95 (USA)    £12.19 (UK)
ISBN  978-0-7868-6097-5
  
“I feel I wrote the book my parents dreamed.”
—Fae Myenne Ng

 
In 1993 Fae Myenne Ng became a national bestselling author with her debut novel Bone. This first book of Ng captured the interest of readers and critics alike, respectfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What A Crap Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Monday, March 19th, 2007)
Tyler’s tonguing my cheek with intense speed and I begin to think of the term Sexual Abuse. It’s ironic to know that my freshmen students have been studying what it means to be sexually abused. And here I am lying in bed — a victim with saliva drying miserably on my cheek. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blondes Lay Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Book Review
by Tony R. Rodriguez
The Blondes Lay Content by Lisa Zaran,
Lulu Press, 2006, paperback, $15.59
“My heart swings like a pendulum.”
—Lisa Zaran

I first came across the works of Lisa Zaran back in the summer of 2004. I stumbled onto The Rose and Thorn, a website that publishes an e-zine spotlighting great works of fiction, poetry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple Scars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother and Father are fighting again. Awakened from my nap, I stretch my back and scrape the rundown carpet. In a tired voice I speak in a language only Father seems to comprehend. I can understand everything they’re saying—yet this time too many words refer to things they did outside of the home, abstract moments [...]]]></description>
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