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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Recommended books</title>
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		<title>Creature of Catastrophe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kolbert]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marilynne Robinson]]></category>
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Stumbling upon intersecting observations by two writers today, I was reminded of a vacation several years ago at the Olympic Peninsula&#8217;s northwestern tip. I was drinking coffee in the lobby of a lodge. A new guest was checking in. The innkeeper, making small talk, asked what  he did for a living. &#8220;I work for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the past</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/05/06/understanding-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cowboys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul VanDevelder]]></category>

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What&#8217;s the context of these quotes from the epigraph page of a book I bought today? Not the unfolding torture scandal, though it could be. Instead they set the tone for Savages &#38; Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Road to Empire Through Indian Territory by Paul VanDevelder.
His repeated use of &#8220;savages&#8221; isn&#8217;t a pejorative. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story Quest</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/04/30/story-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Grann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost City of Z]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Percy Fawcett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lost in the Lost City of Z. When I open the book in bed at night, my world disappears. Reality becomes author David Grann&#8217;s riveting account of the obsessive hunt for a place that may have never existed.
Grann had phenomenal material without visiting what may be the remotest place on Earth. His adventure, blended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explosions of Memory</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/04/14/explosions-of-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apocalypse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Never has apocalypse looked so beautiful. That was my first thought today upon seeing four photographs from a 1970 French nuclear test. Then I thought of my childhood and pilot friend, whose Army adventures included flying helicopters to a radiated and cratered South Pacific atoll to help repair what an atomic bomb had wrought.
Then came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A World We Don&#8217;t Expect</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/04/03/a-world-we-dont-expect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve entered a different world. Not the present one that&#8217;s changed so much, seemingly overnight. No, it&#8217;s one of many that famed science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick created.
Although others have long extolled him to me, I haven&#8217;t ventured into Dick&#8217;s genre for years. (I&#8217;m not counting science- fiction movies, including some based on his work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unclaimed Memories on Film</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/03/01/unclaimed-memories-on-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blade Runner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[found photographs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I stumbled upon old snapshots of unidentified people I can&#8217;t get out of my head.
The photos are on two web sites, waiting for someone to give names to faces. One site features more than 500 color images from film found in cameras at flea markets and second-hand stores. The other site consists of 44 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of Love</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/01/22/power-of-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone doubting the grassroots power of online social media should consider this story, which I wrote for today&#8217;s edition of The Oregonian.
Without Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, a son&#8217;s heart-warming attempt to help his mother&#8217;s financially ailing bookstore would have never reached and connected with so many people so quickly.
While the so-called Web 2.0 spread the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrill of Authorship</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2009/01/10/thrill-of-authorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pendleton Round-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rodeo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I worked on a book about a world-famous rodeo for 18 months with another writer, Ann Terry Hill. I also did extensive digging for old photographs. Recreating events from decades ago based on historical research was exhilarating. Nothing motivates me like the thrill of the hunt for hard-to-unearth information.
At the outset, most of what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate Among Us</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2008/11/27/hate-among-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elinor Langer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Poverty Law Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hate knows no boundaries, judging from a map compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It&#8217;s especially disconcerting to see the presence of hate groups in my city, Portland.
But I&#8217;m not naïve about such matters. After all, I grew up mainly in the South. Not that racism wasn&#8217;t rampant in the Northwest. I&#8217;ve read extensively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heard but not heeded</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbales.com/2008/09/11/heard-but-not-heeded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Baxter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one who&#8217;s eighty says, &#8220;The years have dragged on and on. When is this thing going to finally end?&#8221;
So I wasn&#8217;t surprised to hear my father say on his eightieth birthday, &#8220;I&#8217;m amazed at how quickly it&#8217;s gone by.&#8221; But coming from your parent, it has more resonance. 
I keep playing his words over [...]]]></description>
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