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		<title>Two Fine Anti-War Novels: Sand Queen &amp; People of the Whale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
WW Norton, $14.95 paperback
Sand Queen by Helen Benedict
Soho Press, $25.00
Libraries are such dangerous places: I was just scanning the shelves, not looking for anything particular, a few months ago, when People of the Whale slid into my hand. I knew the Pulitzer-nominated Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan&#8217;s work, of course, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2012/04/08/two-fine-anti-war-novels-sand-queen-people-of-the-whale/</link>
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		<title>Best of 2011 lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Fall Band of Thebes asks for a short list of fav titles for the year. Here’s the long version of what I said:
Nina Revoyr’s Wingshooters gets my personal Novel-of-the-Year Award for its brilliantly accurate portrayal of the everyday racism of rural America. I put Mikey on that special shelf next to Bone and Scout.
Best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2011/12/18/best-of-2011-lists/</link>
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		<title>Would you repeat that (again)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s not much in Queer Lit that’s inclusive of hearing loss. Talk about an absent character trait! So, for the moment I’m making do with the straight male protagonist in David Lodges’ deaf sentence, in which a recently retired linguistics professor, one Desmond Bates, runs smack into all of the frustrations (and isolation) of increasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2011/12/16/would-you-repeat-that-again/</link>
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		<title>Hawaii &#8211; Aug. 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I read on my summer vacation: 
State of Wonder &#8211; Ann Patchett. Harper. Cloth.
OK, I&#8217;d walk a mile in the middle of the night for a new Ann Patchett novel. This is my favorite woman&#8217;s adventure novel since Lucy Bledsoe&#8217;s Big Bang Symphony.
Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell. Norton, cloth.
Whew! The world just stopped for a lttle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2011/09/01/hawaii-aug-2011/</link>
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		<title>PEOPLE OF THE BOOK</title>
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Viking, US$25.95
I&#8217;d been ignoring this novel. There are so many reasons to not read a book: time, money, a small fit of intellectual laziness, the fact that nobody at Viking saw fit to send BTWOF a review copy&#8230;. The reviews I&#8217;d read were intriguing but&#8230;. And then I received this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2010/05/19/people-of-the-book/</link>
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		<title>American Salvage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Jo Campbell&#8217;s American Salvage includes the best girl-getting-her-own-back (after sexual abuse) story I&#8217;ve read since, oh, Bastard Out of Carolina.
It&#8217;s a great collection. I picked it up because of its references to Kalamazoo, Plainwell, Comstock, and other small towns of my youth, references that, in another mood, would have sent me screaming from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2010/01/09/american-salvage/</link>
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		<title>Coventry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coventry
by Helen Humphreys
Norton, March 2009, $23.95 cloth, 177 pages
  
Sweet, tender, short and not a word awry. And one of the best anti-war novels I’ve ever read. Just what we need, right now, as we’re settling into to Obama’s “next 100 days,” with none of the wars ended and another one emerging in Pakistan. Coventry reminds us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2009/06/07/coventry/</link>
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		<title>TLE&#8217;s Novel of the Year 2005</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wild Dogs is the ultimate stealth (lesbian) novel. If introducing this novel to a wider lesbian readership was the only thing I accomplished in two and a half years of publishing this rag, it would be worth it.
Let’s start with the PR — while I sympathize with the publicists’ dilemma (there’s almost nothing you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2008/03/19/tles-novel-of-the-year-2005/</link>
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