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		<title>Celebrate Fiercely: Creative Life in Wild Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyanda Lynn Haupt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Michael Toms for the iconic New Dimensions radio show. Toms, often called the Socrates of Radio, showed up for the interview with a legal pad that was completely filled with tiny handwritten notes and queries about my book Crow Planet. He knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Smash Is Born</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/a-smash-is-born-by-chris-bolton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bolton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Bolton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Editor's note: Chris Bolton is not only a former Powell's employee, he was also once the primary writer for this blog. So we are particularly proud today to post the following essay by our former coworker and friend as he promotes the publication of his first book. Congratulations, Chris! As is so often the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock Tactics: Stanley Milgram&#8217;s Obedience Experiments Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/shock-tactics-stanley-milgrams-obedience-experiments-revisited-by-gina-perry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Perry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gina Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard of Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments. Perhaps you've read about them in a textbook at school, as I did. Even if you haven't, you've likely come across them without knowing it &#8212; in the episode of The Simpsons, for example, where a therapist hooks the family up to a shock machine, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sympathy for the Stepmother</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/sympathy-for-the-stepmother-by-carolyn-turgeon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Turgeon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snow White has always been my favorite fairy tale. It's so strange: that glass coffin in the forest, the stepmother asking for the princess's heart, the talking mirror voicing her deepest fears and desires. I saw the classic Disney film when I was very young, and I was as terrified by the sinister forest and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishing the Flats</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/fishing-the-flats-by-tom-kizzia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kizzia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Kizzia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I sent my son off to Bristol Bay, where a job waited as a deckhand on a fishing boat. Ethan was excited to have lined up one of the summer jobs most coveted by teenagers in our small coastal town: high pay and hard work chasing salmon in the wild estuaries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Possible to Be a Great Artist and a Good Person?</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/is-it-possible-to-be-a-great-artist-and-a-good-person-by-mason-currey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mason Currey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never in a million years did I imagine myself becoming a self-help author. But since my first book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, was published several weeks ago, I've often found it classified in that very category. For a brief period, I was even Amazon's 72nd bestselling self-help author, sandwiched between Carol Kline (Chicken Soup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Outer Sunset</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/the-outer-sunset-by-richard-melo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Melo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her name was "Waterloo Sunset," and she wasn't a girl (or a boy for that matter) but rather a song by the Kinks, and I fell in love just the same. It was the late 1980s, and I was adrift. I was an undergrad at San Francisco State, and after a torturous breakup and indecision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bard and Bridget Jones Meet in Elizabeth the First Wife</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/the-bard-and-bridget-jones-meet-in-elizabeth-the-first-wife-by-lian-dolan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lian Dolan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to have a fantastic Shakespeare professor in college. She brought the material to life with her vast knowledge and brought students to tears with her brilliantly structured lectures. Every year she split the class into groups of five, assigned each group an act of a play, and had students stage a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for the Next Megaquake</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/preparing-for-the-next-megaquake-by-sandi-doughton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/preparing-for-the-next-megaquake-by-sandi-doughton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandi Doughton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandi Doughton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When my editor at Sasquatch Books pitched Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest to higher-ups in the publishing world, they weren't enthusiastic. "Is there anything positive in it?" they asked with dismay. It's a good question. Who wants to read a depressing litany of the ways in which we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of the Guinea Pig</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/the-art-of-the-guinea-pig-by-lauren-kessler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/the-art-of-the-guinea-pig-by-lauren-kessler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health and Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Kessler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When did I first realize what I had gotten myself into? Was it that morning in the 102-degree Bikram studio when, slick with sweat, leaving little puddles on my mat as I grunted through a series of yoga poses, I face-planted during a strenuous downward dog sequence and gave myself a bloody nose? Maybe it [...]]]></description>
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