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		<title>Remembering Leila Abu-Saba (1962-2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the morning, already dreary from the dampness and rain, brought the news that Leila Abu-Saba had died at her home in Oakland. Cancer finally took her. She had beat it before, but it returned. It is a familiar, painful story. Eight years ago, my younger sister, about the same age, died after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eid Literature Specials 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the mid 1800s, magazine publishers in England launched Christmas specials to provide cheap reading material to the aspiring middle classes. The colonial conduit brought the custom to Calcutta, and when Bengali periodicals emerged, they launched holiday specials for Durga Puja. In the early 1900s, when Bengali Muslims started magazines they pioneered similar specials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Mahmudul Haque (1941-2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;One day everything becomes a story&#34; An abridged version of this article appeared The Daily Star on 2 August 2008. Three years after partition, a ten-year-old boy nicknamed Botu moved from Barasat, now across a border, to Dhaka, settling with his family in the new flats built in Azimpur for government employees. At West End [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masud Rana: Super Spy Of Transplant Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another Bond movie has come out, this time a remake of Casino Royale. Ian Fleming is long dead, but his creation, the debonair James Bond, Agent 007, keeps popping up in a new face. Bond&#39;s grip on the male psyche is tenacious. And why not? He zips to exotic locales and outwits vicious enemies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the AWP in Austin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first week of March I flew to Austin, Texas. &#160;&#160; &#160;When I stepped out of the hotel to find something to eat, the sun had&#160; disappeared. My ears were immediately assaulted by a cacophony of bird sounds. The trees swarmed with birds that looked like crows but didn&#8217;t sound anything like crows. What birds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Octavia Butler, 1947-2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget inspiration, forget talent, don&#8217;t worry about imagination: her advice for a new fiction writer was simple.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#34;Persist,&#34; she said.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Around the time I discovered Octavia Butler&#8217;s writing advice, I was still new to writing fiction. I was anxious about both inspiration and talent. I worried about imagination, since in my rather complicated life I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While speaking to a few dozen friends recently, I tried out a&#160;confession. &#160;I said that I was not really who I claimed to be; I was not as old as they knew me and that I had stolen the identity of someone older, someone who had gone through a much richer vein of experiences than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cassettes and the analog-digital divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of my friends have recently posted podcasts of their writing on the internet, one on The Writers Block at KQED in San Francisco and another at Podbazaar. I am toying with the idea of producing one of my own stories in audio and posting it here.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;With podcasts, I can listen to my friends&#8217; pieces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing in a &#8216;foreign&#8217; tongue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laila Lalami was in San Francisco last week to promote her novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. She, of moorishgirl.com fame, was born in Morocco and came to the U.S. for grad school. In the Q&#38;A, an Indian man questioned her on her choice of writing in English. He said he was grappling with the [...]]]></description>
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