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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stephen Krupin, speechwriter:

“I think if you think of writing as a burden, then I get the desire for shortcuts. If you think of writing as an opportunity, as a valuable process that clarifies what you think, that helps you discover new connections and connect different dots and challenge your assumptions and force you to be precise in how you articulate your ideas, why would you want to skip that step?”]]></description>
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    <title>The death of the concert review</title>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Kenkō, Buddhist monk.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/ai-and-college-writing.html">
    <title>AI and college writing</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-03T13:15:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/ai-and-college-writing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My 2¢ about a New Yorker article:

“Using AI to generate an outline or essay isn’t accelerating learning — it’s accelerating the creation of a product to turn in for a grade. And if you’re using AI to do your thinking for you, your destination may not be one you anticipated or, perhaps, even recognize upon arrival.”]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:bc8011e143b3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/ia-writer-fifteen-years-later.html">
    <title>iA Writer, fifteen years late(r)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-06T13:14:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/ia-writer-fifteen-years-later.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After fifteen years and 1,745 updates, iA Writer becomes an Apple Design Award finalist.]]></description>
<dc:subject>design Mac writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:b5c8eda8a41a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:Mac"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/robert-caros-abandoned-novel.html">
    <title>Robert Caro’s abandoned novel</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-07T14:22:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/robert-caros-abandoned-novel.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“We Rediscovered Robert Caro’s Abandoned Novel About an Intrepid Journalist Buried in His Archives.”

Yikes — it sounds like an Edgar Allan Poe story.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove RobertCaro writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f04791c7cc93/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/markdown-ftw.html">
    <title>Markdown FTW</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-10T19:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/markdown-ftw.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Oliver Reichenstein of iA Writer, a celebration of Markdown: “Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>technology writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:8d36bd504980/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-to-begin.html">
    <title>How to begin</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-23T01:48:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-to-begin.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Compositional strategies in Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics Nancy writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:fb0350daf587/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-many-straphangers.html">
    <title>How many straphangers?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-18T18:25:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-many-straphangers.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This post is no. 127 in a series dedicated to improving stray bits of professional public prose.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:60532928c2cb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-only-reason.html">
    <title>The only reason to blog</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-04T14:31:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-only-reason.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A blogger, twenty years on.]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogging writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d9ebfd505257/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/searching-for-right-word.html">
    <title>Searching for the right word</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-03T14:53:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/searching-for-right-word.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In The New York Times Margaret Renkl writes about why writers should not use AI.]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI education teaching technology writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d65d5b7ae0d5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:teaching"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/12/valves-valvoline-and-singing-circuits.html">
    <title>Valves, Valvoline, and singing circuits</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-27T18:56:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/12/valves-valvoline-and-singing-circuits.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Clichés, cheap alliteration, corny phrasing, wild generalizations — all lurching toward utter inanity. Walter Isaacson’s Musk bio.]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:05e96e673335/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/how-to-improve-writing-no-126.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 126)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-17T13:36:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/how-to-improve-writing-no-126.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A conjunction that makes no sense.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove NewYorkTimes writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:3ed5bb50dfe3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/chatgpt-and-forklift.html">
    <title>ChatGPT and a forklift</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-08T21:23:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/chatgpt-and-forklift.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ted Chiang: “Using ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you will never improve your cognitive fitness that way.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>ChatGPT technology writing education</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:979d4bfc6237/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:technology"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-to-improve-writing-no-125.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 125)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-16T20:26:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-to-improve-writing-no-125.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“He typically mentions the fictional serial killer in the context of immigration, claiming without evidence that migrants are coming in from insane asylums and mental institutions and often using dehumanizing language.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-to-improve-writing-no-124.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 124)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-16T20:25:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-to-improve-writing-no-124.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What she did not say is that you can’t make friends of 50 years when you are in your ninth decade, the kind who knew you way back when.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove NewYorkTimes writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/writing-on-train.html">
    <title>Writing on a train</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-16T20:24:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/writing-on-train.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From The Narrow Margin: a train with a writing desk for passenger use.]]></description>
<dc:subject>dowdyworld trains writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-to-improve-writing-no-123.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 123)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-31T13:34:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-to-improve-writing-no-123.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Subject and verb should always agree. Sheesh, NY Times.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove NewYorkTimes writing sheesh</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/fran-lebowitz-at-morgan-library.html">
    <title>Fran Lebowitz at the Morgan Library</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-10T13:42:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/fran-lebowitz-at-morgan-library.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person”]]></description>
<dc:subject>handwriting letters writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4fadc908679a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:letters"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/off-bot.html">
    <title>Off the bot</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-27T14:25:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/off-bot.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In response to a comment from Matthew Schmeer that describes inventive assignments to keep students from turning in AI-generated writing, I came up with a phrase that I’d like to share: “off the bot,” after “off the grid.”

I am thinking and writing off the bot.]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f30d515fb917/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/how-to-improve-writing-no-122.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 122)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-10T20:31:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/how-to-improve-writing-no-122.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Pitch in today for a chance to meet myself,” etc.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ed632d2aa085/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/how-i-write-certain-of-my-blog-posts.html">
    <title>How I write certain of my blog posts</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-29T14:26:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/how-i-write-certain-of-my-blog-posts.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m always interested in seeing the materials of writing, so I thought it’d be interesting to show the materials that went into a post about Anne Curzan’s Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words. Why not?

A notebook, gel pen, blue pencil, legal pad, fountain pen, and text editor.]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogging writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:9aca3e9d25ac/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/handwriting-vs-typing.html">
    <title>Handwriting vs. typing</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-15T13:27:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/handwriting-vs-typing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ Old news by now, I’d say, but still news: “Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning” (NPR).]]></description>
<dc:subject>handwriting writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/how-to-improve-writing-no-121.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 121)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-07T00:21:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/how-to-improve-writing-no-121.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It makes better sense to arrange the elements in order of their severity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-to-improve-writing-no-120.html">
    <title>How to improve writing (no. 120)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-25T00:02:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-to-improve-writing-no-120.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are, not is, plans.]]></description>
<dc:subject>howtoimprove writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:fe29104bb322/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/recently-updated_12.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-19T14:32:38+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:subject>Latin words writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/joe-and-me-and-i.html">
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/writer-y.html">
    <title>“Writer-y”</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-28T20:59:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/writer-y.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Zits.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics handwriting paper pencils pens writing</dc:subject>
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    <title>iA Writer is not AI</title>
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    <dc:date>2023-12-03T15:25:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/11/how-to-improve-writing-no-116.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The target of a plot is not at its center.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-11-19T15:52:29+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-worlds-writing-systems.html">
    <title>The World’s Writing Systems</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-27T13:58:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-worlds-writing-systems.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A beautiful use of the Internet: The World’s Writing Systems.]]></description>
<dc:subject>alphabet writing</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2023-10-27T13:57:09+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-conclusion.html">
    <title>“In conclusion”</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-11T14:06:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-conclusion.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today’s Zits: a mild exaggeration of how some students think about writing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/and-again-meanings-interlock.html">
    <title>“And again meanings interlock”</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-06T14:01:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/and-again-meanings-interlock.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fiction writing ItaloCalvino</dc:subject>
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    <title>How to improve writing (no. 113)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-08T18:04:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>How to improve writing (no. 112)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-23T16:43:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>How to improve writing (no. 111)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-18T19:56:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>How to lay off of Josh Marshall</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-18T19:54:51+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/08/reading-and-writing-in-dark.html">
    <title>Reading and writing in the dark</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-15T13:05:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/08/reading-and-writing-in-dark.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fiction reading writing</dc:subject>
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<dc:subject>revision writing</dc:subject>
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    <title>Out the window</title>
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    <title>Longhand and a Smith-Corona</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-01T13:46:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Taped to the lamp</title>
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    <title>When writers go on strike</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-24T12:55:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fresca improved a paragraph by Adam Gopnik.

Slywy found an abandoned general store, and its history.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-03-08T15:36:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2023-02-18T22:53:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>“Raucous go-go”</title>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You know what Robert Caro says: Turn every page. Thus I found myself looking at a David Brooks profile of Bono in the December Atlantic, “The Too-Muchness of Bono.”]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-10-29T20:41:59+00:00</dc:date>
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