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		<title>Unhinged From Realism - An electronic interview with “writer and editor, bon vivant (and occasional crank)” Zsuzsi Gartner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marianna GartnerZsuzsiGartner.com In our May 2011 issue, The Walrus is pleased to publish “We Come in Peace,” a new story by Zsuzsi Gartner that also appears in her new collection, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, published this month by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin (Canada). I recently emailed with Zsuzsi about the story, the collection, and the direction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut Chemistry - David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World, discusses adapting his acclaimed novel for The Walrus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David FrancoDavid Bezmozgis In our April 2011 issue, The Walrus is pleased to offer its readers a sneak peek at David Bezmozgis’s long-awaited first novel, The Free World. Set in Rome in 1978, the book follows two generations of the Krasnansky family as they flee Russia and attempt to find their way to America or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Autumns for David Mitchell - Book prizes are wonderful things — but so are wonderful books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows book prizes are wonderful things &#8212; but so are wonderful books © Paul StuartDavid Mitchell One of my great anxieties in this age of the dominance of literary prizes is that most of the good novels that don’t win a major award will somehow cease to exist for readers. What happens, for instance, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2010/10/27/thousand-autumns-for-david-mitchell/</link>
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		<title>Lady&#8217;s Choices - Stephen Marche discusses the making of Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period — his interactive novel for walrusmagazine.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Stephen Marche discusses his interactive novel for walrusmagazine.com Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period is an interactive novel, created exclusively for walrusmagazine.com, with hundreds of possible storylines and multiple outcomes. It uses a web format to capture the reality of a young woman in Toronto in the early 2000s, allowing the reader to explore different aspects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ithacan Pastoral - An interview with J. Robert Lennon, author of Castles and Pieces for the Left Hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interview with J. Robert Lennon, author of Castles and Pieces for the Left Hand J. Robert Lennon (left), at home outside of Ithaca J. Robert Lennon, the American writer, teacher, critic, and blogger who marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Handmaid’s Tale with a consideration of Margaret Atwood’s late career in the October edition [...]]]></description>
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