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		<title>Say Her Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through this book, Goldman weaves a complex, rich narrative of his much younger dead wife, Aura Estrada, a PhD literature student at Columbia University; how he was dealing with his extreme loss, shuffles back and forth amongst mystery, biography, and his own meditation on grief in a very humane, very personal way. I think Virginia Woolf once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Methodologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Various theories and visual methodologies, emphasising the ubiquity of visual materials in today’s culture.]]></description>
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		<title>The Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[McCarthy, Cormac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

A father and his son wander through a ravaged post-apocalyptic world, where all matter of wildlife is extinct and the rain ashen.]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Updike, John]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John Updike (2006)

A post-9/11 novel where a strongly-devoted Muslim boy finds himself prepared as a truck driver to deliver bomb attack.]]></description>
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		<title>Reefer Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Other Tales from the American Underground
by Eric Schlosser (2003)

Three essays on different aspects of American underground -- marijuana trade, migrant labourers and porn industry -- offering general, if rather superficial and unsatisfying, view of 'illicit' industry.]]></description>
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		<title>The Day of the Locust</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[West, Nathanael]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nathanael West (1939)

A satire of the visions of American/Hollywood disillusioned dreams and fantasy factory. Todd Hackett, a talented set-designer, drifts through a city deliberately reduced to its most base depiction of failed dreams and false glitters.]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Donna Tartt (1992)

A scholarship student, Richard, upon arriving at the exclusive Hampden College at Vermont, was intrigued by a tightly-knit group of privileged Greek students with, well, yes, a dark secret. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Food Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World 
by Eric Schlosser (2001) 

A very readable history of fast-food industry and its impacts on social and cultural landscape.]]></description>
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