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		<title>The Branches That Make The Flowers Bloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are certain moments that transcend existence. Or rather, there are certain moments that make existence transcendent, moments you identify years, maybe even decades, later as life-changing, where you look back in wonder that you were there, that you were a part of it, that you saw it and felt it and shook your head [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1232&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>List Round-Up: Best Books of 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a quick sampling of what books reviewers are calling the best of 2010 head over to my tumblr page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1228&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On labels, categories, and &#8220;Hipster Christianity&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett McCracken&#8217;s suddenly semi-controversial and certainly thought provoking book, Hipster Christianity, has been making the proverbial rounds as bloggers, editors, and book reviewers begin to consider the questions it raises and the implications of its thesis. It seems to me they are, largely, missing the point. For a basic introduction to the book, click here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1218&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Week: Ancient Highway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY THOUGHTS: Bret Lott is a writer I admire very much, and whose memoir on a life spent writing, Before We Begin, I am currently reading and thoroughly enjoying. His prose is poetic and his vivid stories are rich with meaning and anyone who loves the movies (or the &#8220;flickers&#8221; as they are called in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1203&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Something To Be Said For A Little Intentionality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s something to be said for intentionality, for doing something with purpose, with direction, with energy. There’s something to be said for meaning what you say or do or create. A few years back, when I was living in Dubuque, Iowa, a college town on the banks of the Mississippi, I grew close to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1200&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Telling the Truth: Comparing Photography and Storytelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife, Bethany, is a photographer, and a few weeks ago we were sitting out on our porch, enjoying the summer breeze when she said something that I found really profound. She told me how one of her college professors told her that, contrary to common belief, photography as an art form is much more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1189&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20 Writers Under the Age of 40</title>
		<link>http://besidethequeue.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/20-writers-under-the-age-of-40/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, I wanted to make note of the fact that The New Yorker recently published their Summer Fiction Issue, in this case the &#8220;20 Under 40&#8243; issue. The issue includes short fiction by the likes of Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safron Foer, Joshua Ferris, ZZ Packer, Daniel Alarcon, and others. Pick it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1183&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Week: Too Much Happiness by Alice Munroe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUMMARY: Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers &#8211; the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1176&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling Through Music; Exhibit: Josh Ritter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“While the audience may not be in the room with a novelist, they still demand the same kind of attention as they do from the performance of a song. They ask that you give them your full attention, that you are generous with your time and that you don’t over stay your welcome. They give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1168&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Week: Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 06:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY THOUGHTS: Dan Chaon, author of the well received &#8220;You Remind Me Of Me&#8221; and an award winning book of short stories called &#8220;Among the Missing&#8221;, has written what Jonathan Franzen called, &#8220;the essential identity-theft novel,&#8221; a mysterious and mesmerizing story about three different young adults running away from their troubled, haunted pasts and into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=besidethequeue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1064964&amp;post=1160&amp;subd=besidethequeue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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