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		<title>Review: The Book of Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who enjoyed last week&#8217;s interview with Mike Doughty might also enjoy my review of his new memoir, The Book of Drugs, in today&#8217;s New York Journal of Books.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1695&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going X-Rated!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick word of thanks to my friend and colleague, Monica D&#8217;Antonio, for interviewing me on her blog, X-Rated.* I&#8217;ve been a big fan of X-Rated for as long as Monica has been blogging. She&#8217;s smart and funny and offers excellent commentary on pop culture, teaching, and politics, so I was very pleased to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1691&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grievers Giveaway!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Thanks to everyone who dropped me a line! I just got my fifth request, so the copies are gone, but I&#8217;ll be emailing everyone who requested a copy so they know either way. With the launch date for my second novel, The Grievers, quickly approaching, I recently received a shipment of advance review copies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1676&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More from Pete&#8217;s Mail Bag</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/more-from-petes-mail-bag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve lost track, my dog Pete, who&#8217;s been dead lo these last two years, has been asked to apply to a for-profit institution of higher learning and to buy a new car at Miller Chrysler Dodge Jeep. And yesterday, the good people of Mealey&#8217;s Furniture kindly wrote to inquire about Pete&#8217;s luck: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1667&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask an English Teacher: Good or Well?</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/ask-an-english-teacher-good-or-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone asks how I am, should I say I&#8217;m good or I&#8217;m well? The answer depends on whether the person who asked really cares how you&#8217;re doing. If they&#8217;re only asking to be polite, the correct answer is, &#8220;Fine, thanks!&#8221; But if they really want to know, the correct answer is probably closer to, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1626&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lyrical Revelation 34 Years in the Making</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/a-lyrical-revelation-34-years-in-the-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1978. I&#8217;m five years old, and I swear the couplet goes &#8220;Spins a web, any size./Can&#8217;t you see? Just like eyes!&#8221; Did it make sense? No. But it was close enough for jazz &#8212; and the theme from Spider-man was one heck of a jazzy tune. &#160; 2012. I&#8217;m significantly older. I hear the Ramones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1493&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask an English Teacher: &#8220;Like&#8221; vs. &#8220;Not Unlike&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/ask-an-english-teacher-like-vs-not-unlike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A regular reader of this blog recently wrote with the following quandary: Q: It drives me crazy when I hear someone say “It’s not dissimilar to…” or “It’s not unlike&#8230;”  THEN IT’S SIMILAR OR IT’S LIKE, YOU IDIOT! Please explain this language phenomenon to me. A: What we&#8217;re dealing with here is a matter of degree. To say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1511&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing in Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I talked a bit about the value of what I call active reading. One of the things I mentioned was that readers &#8212; particularly students of literature &#8212; shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to write in their books (assuming, of course, they&#8217;re not library books). In response, a couple of people, both on my blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1635&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Book in My Head: Mike Doughty on The Book of Drugs</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/a-book-in-my-head-mike-doughty-on-the-book-of-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["It wasn't so much wanting to write a book as realizing I had a book to write."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1653&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Literature (Pt. 3: Support)</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/one-way-to-write-about-literature-pt-3-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main thing to remember when you’re writing a paper for a literature course is that you’re not just letting your professor know that you did the reading. Rather, you’re making a point about the text.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1555&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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