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		<title>Five Things that Rocked May 12-18</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. I wrote this post about The Blind Assassin. I got this tweet in reply. Swoon. @akellyanderson: Thank you! — Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) May 17, 2013 2. My Wromance (writing romance) A.J. Kandathil wrote about the Five Pillars of Place using Park and Rec on Ploughshares. &#8216;Cause that&#8217;s how she rolls ( awesome, that&#8217;s how [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1991&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Cowboy Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fifth part in my series on Literary Cowboys is live on Ploughshares today. Mosey on over and give it a look-see. &#8220;The Myth of the Literary Cowboy, Part 5: Cowboy Poetry&#8221; Filed under: Get Smart, Reading, Writing Tagged: cowboy poetry, literature, Ploughshares, Poetry, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1988&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Love Affair with The Blind Assassin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I fell in love with Margaret Atwood, I fell in love, as readers often do, with one of her books. Perhaps as an American female writer I should be more enamored with Joyce Carol Oates, but I just can&#8217;t help myself. Our (one-sided) romance took root in the autumn of 2000. Newly graduated from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1984&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday marked the end of another year for me. Although I have a summer of online teaching, reading and writing, and program review ahead of me, for now the tide of never ending responsibility is ebbing. Since my kids are still in school, today I have the pleasure of time to myself. In taking [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1980&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things that Rocked May 5-11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog I&#8217;ve just discovered, interesting literature, wrote a thoughtful post on Fitzgerald and the underrated This Side of Paradise. Aside from a brief outline of the writer, it is full of fun tidbits, like he was the first person to use wicked with a positive connotation. Learn something new every day, right? Ashley Wells is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1976&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Gatsby Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I list books that changed my life, The Great Gatsby tops the list. By the time I read it in high school, I already knew I wanted to be a writer and had since third grade when I tried to write my first novel (it was about horses because my best friend drew crazy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1972&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write on Wednesday: Shooting Fish with a Slingshot in the Dark&#8211;The Wisdom of Margaret Atwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akellyanderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My deep love of Margaret Atwood is no secret; Generation Cake could probably be subtitled &#8220;In Praise of Margaret Atwood.&#8221; In roughly two and a half weeks, I will be in her presence. To honor that momentous event, the next few Write on Wedensdays will be Atwood themed.  This lovely list is reprinted from The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1969&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Teachers: 10 Signs It&#8217;s Final Exams Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akellyanderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. You fantasize about taking all the papers in your office and reenacting this scene from Waiting to Exhale. When reprimanded by campus security, you would also growl, &#8220;It is trash.&#8221; 2. You have a conversation like the one below at least once an hour. 3. You cannot wrap your mind around all the things you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1957&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things that Rocked April 28 &#8211; May 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would have been enough that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played for the Lakers and is the leading NBA scorer of all times. But then he stayed loyal to the Lakers, working as their assistant coach. He even made some people unhappy when he rightly criticized the NBA for taking players straight out of high school instead [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1965&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of the Season: An Anthem on Cheating</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, I have had to have more conversations this year regarding this subject than ever before. Catching a student cheating (in my subject, it&#8217;s usually plagiarism), makes my stomach drop. It makes me angrier and sadder than any of the other things student do. If only I could carry a tune while strutting through the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=generationcake.com&#038;blog=13402138&#038;post=1962&#038;subd=generationcake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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