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Year of The Rhinoceros
Although labeled a novel, the fact that Neff has worked in D.C. makes his book all the more alarming ... 
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Book Reviews
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Close Encounters
Several feelings pummel the reader of Michalski's Close Encounters. But the biggest of all is gratitude ...
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In The Garden of Men
This issue of male archetypes and the violence of male culture pervades Dubus III's work. It is in his father's work to some extent ...
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New Lines From The Old Line State
The best of Maryland! The selections run the gamut from mystery to fantasy and everyday life with the entries, not counting the poetry ...
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What Men Want
Blow jobs is the short answer, but if you'll pardon the expression, McCullough has her tongue in her cheek ...
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The Animal
Do things exist in and of themselves or do they depend on our minds for their existence? ...
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The Currency
Though many of these poems begin in pursuit of the poet's privileged, panoramic vista of life, they return again and again to the vertigo of a consciousness that is constantly revising and reimagining itself ...
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The Words We Used
Poems about food tenderly conclude with ruminations on marriage and its dissolution; poems about sex invoke images of dietary excess ...
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Season of Flowers and Dust
In his observation and celebration of nature, Mosson also brings to mind Walt Whitman in the very sensuousness with which he describes the natural world ...
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Flightless Goose
Eric's words are well-chosen and presented in a friendly font that frequently undulates and trickles in time with the ups and downs of the story ...
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Quictions
Kurosawa's Rain
by Rosanne Griffeth
When Kurosawa was thirteen, his brother,
took him on a walking tour of Tokyo, a city
defined by fantasies of destruction,
decimated by an earthquake more deadly
than Godzilla's dreams ...
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Quictions
Immigration Man
by Paul Handley
Tortured Haitians with French accents that
cry upon getting citizenship. Persecuted, gay
asylum seekers, now in happy hetero marital
union. Those with domestic charges seek
empathy ...
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Acetylcholinesterase
by Jen Michalski
She pushes hard on my body and I am on
my side on the bed while she digs the damn
chinks out of my ass. You gotta admire a
woman who stands by her duty for her
country ...
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Ahmed the Cab Driver
by Henry F. Tonn
Upon further investigation, it was revealed
that Ahmed was not a terrorist at all, just a
cab driver from a small village south of
Baghdad ...
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Nobody Believes Me
by Devin Sommers
When I called the FBI three days after the
Murrah Building was blown up, the agent
talked to asked me if I wasn't the one who'd
phoned about Hoffa ...
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Pudding
by Cortney Bledsoe
"The Occupation of Iraq Costing $720
Million Each Day," I read aloud. "Why
haven't these people been locked up?" ...
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Two Stories
by Corey Mundwiler
You know how sometimes you think you
hear different words being sung in a song?
Like, "the girl with colitis goes by" instead
of "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes?" ...
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Flavor of the Week
by Alison Morse
The dessert with the translucent moon of
burnt sugar, egg custard, and secret
ingredient needs to ping on her tongue from
first mouthful to last--and it usually does ...
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Two Stories
by Virginia Crawford
He must love her. He loves her so much it
doesn't matter. He loves her so much it
doesn't matter if they don't have sex
anymore. God. No sex ...
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The Coin of the Martyr
by Joseph Sheehan
And she knew the things he liked to spend
money on. Spiderman, The Green Lantern,
Batman, The Fantastic Four, Cracker Jacks,
black liquorice Nibs, sweet and sour candy ...
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Status Quo
by Nathan Leslie
So I'm sitting in a bumpy wingback chair in
Venice in a late July evening. This is the last
leg of our trip and I'm ready to return to
St. Louis. From the open window I can
smell the fetid Grand Canal ...
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Bedtime
by Michael Andre
The green heron stands on a boulder
awaiting his fish. The river whirls and
gurgles. A bear, fat from all summer,
sashays along the bank ...
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