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		<title>Life Stories #2: Storm Large</title>
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In the second installment of the Life Stories podcast, I talk with Storm Large about Crazy Enough, a memoir of her mother&#8217;s mental illness and the paths that Storm&#8217;s fear of sharing her fate&#8212;instilled by a careless remark by one of her mother&#8217;s psychiatrists when she was a child&#8212;led her down as a teenager and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emma Straub&#8217;s First Kisses</title>
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In early 2011, Emma Straub released a collection of wonderful short stories through the book publishing arm of the online literary magazine Five Chapters. A lot of people fell in love with those stories over the following months&#8212;one of them was Megan Lynch, an editor at Riverhead Books. Lynch was so impressed after hearing Straub [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/02/08/emma-straub-selling-shorts/</link>
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		<title>Lysley Tenorio On Dying &amp; Character Development</title>
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The stories in Lysley Tenorio&#8217;s Monstress cover a wide range of Filipino and Filipino-American experiences, from a teen&#8217;s confused efforts to help his Imelda-fixated uncle exact revenge against the Beatles for a perceived offense during their 1960s visit to Manila to two elderly men who&#8217;ve spent their adult lives together in San Francisco&#8217;s International Hotel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Stories #1: Heather Donahue</title>
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I mentioned, back in January, that I had big plans for 2012, and it&#8217;s time to unveil one of them: a new podcast series called Life Stories, in which I will be interviewing memoir writers about their lives and about the art of telling a story about those lives. The idea began with a chat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/02/02/life-stories-1-heather-donahue/</link>
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		<title>Thomas Balazs: The Humor of &#8220;People Like Us&#8221;</title>
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The protagonists of the short stories in Omicron Ceti III are a pretty screwed-up bunch: There&#8217;s the high school senior who takes his frustration about his sexual attractions out on his English teacher, the young mental patient who finds one of his few forms of emotional solace in an old Star Trek episode, the art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/02/01/thomas-balazs-selling-shorts/</link>
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		<title>Book Reviews &amp; The Illusion of Posterity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend John Scalzi posted a small meditation on art, commerce, and impermanence at his blog, Whatever, which resonated with some of the ideas I&#8217;ve been kicking around about book reviews and literary criticism for a while. Basically, Scalzi looks at the best selling novels for 1912 and observes how, most likely, &#8220;outside of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/01/31/book-reviews-illusion-posterity/</link>
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		<title>More Thoughts on Gender Bias &amp; Book Reviews</title>
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When I wrote about the ways gender bias crept into my own book reviewing, the feedback encouraged me to dig deeper into the issue. As I&#8217;d noted, one attempt to undermine the argument that women writers deserve consistently better coverage than what they&#8217;re currently getting from many of America&#8217;s book reviewers is the tactic that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/01/30/more-thoughts-gender-bias-book-reviews/</link>
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		<title>The Beam in My Own Reading Eye</title>
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In the summer of 2010, the New York Times penchant for Great White Male Novelists was a major topic of discussion, spurred by vocal criticism from Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult, among others, of the tendency for the Times to review certain types of writers over other types&#8212;men over women in general, but even within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/01/27/beam-in-my-own-reading-eye/</link>
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		<title>How I&#8217;m Celebrating Social Media Week</title>
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On Wednesday, February 15, I&#8217;ll be participating in &#8220;Getting Published &#038; Beyond in the 21st Century,&#8221; a panel discussion sponsored by Pubslush Press. The final lineup is still being assembled, but I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing the stage with the author Emma Straub and Amanda Pritzker, a senior publicist at Penguin&#8217;s Portfolio imprint. (There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/01/21/how-im-celebrating-social-media-week/</link>
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		<title>2012 Is Going to Be Huge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of 2011, folks got excited about the digital release of a concert film by comedian Louis C.K., which you could download directly from his website for just $5&#8212;so excited that, within days, he&#8217;d earned $1 million in gross revenue from the project. It was a prominent example of something that&#8217;s been going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2012/01/19/2012-is-going-to-be-huge/</link>
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