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	<title>The Third Archive</title>
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	<description>wiretaps and ciphers, fingerprints and depositions</description>
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		<title>Surviving the Perilous Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first encountered the work of Brian Conn while helping to edit issue twenty-one of Lady Churchill&#8217;s Rosebud Wristlet, the biannual lit zine published by Small Beer Press. Conn&#8217;s contribution, a story called &#8220;The Postern Gate,&#8221; was a dizzying narrative set in a massive castle inhabited by eccentric characters. Complex, vivid, and almost Gormenghastian despite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/08/20/surviving-the-perilous-season/</link>
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		<title>Take This, Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, over at the Small Beer Press blog, I revealed a handful of secrets about Meeks, a first novel by Julia Holmes. If you&#8217;ve seen me in the last year or so, chances are I talked to you about this book. And maybe talked and talked and talked to you about it. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/06/26/take-this-brother/</link>
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		<title>Border Crossing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I attended the Bloody Words crime fiction conference in Toronto. I decided to drive, which meant crossing the border into Canada near Alexandria Bay. The border guard, who had an impressive mustache and a heavy accent, provided an extraordinary welcome. Here’s how our conversation went.
GUARD
What is your destination?
WRITER
Toronto, for two days. I&#8217;m attending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/06/01/border-crossing/</link>
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		<title>Three Curiosities Respecting the Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some new selections from The Cyclopedia of Wonders &#38; Curiosities:
Whitehead’s Ship. —George Whitehead, an Englishman, made a ship, with all her tackling, to move itself on a table, with rowers plying the oars, a woman playing on the lute, and a little whelp crying on the deck, —says Scottus, in his Itinerary.
Scaliot’s Lock, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/03/11/three-curiosities-respecting-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Umbrellas Across America, Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The paperback tour for The Manual of Detection brought me on Thursday to Portland, OR. It was my first time in that city, though I knew a bit about it from the many friends who live(d) there, and from Benjamin Parzybok’s novel Couch. I made the pilgrimage to the Powell’s mothership, did an interview for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/02/16/umbrellas-across-america-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Umbrellas Across America, Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few updates from the road. I had some extra time in Chicago, so before my reading at 57th Street Books on Monday, I went with my friend Sondra (http://snailsaregood.blogspot.com) to visit the Art Institute of Chicago, which is free in February (thanks, Big Shoulders!).
We explored the excellent collection of impressionist art—look at those umbrellas!—as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/02/10/umbrellas-across-america-part-one/</link>
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		<title>The Travels-No-More Rides Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I&#8217;ll be back on the road for a series of readings and talks: Chicago&#8217;s up first, then Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco &#38; environs. There have been some updates and additions to my schedule, so here it is in full, below.
In addition to reading from The Manual of Detection (just out in paperback), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/02/05/the-travels-no-more-travels-again/</link>
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		<title>Memorandum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To: J. Berry
From:  Great &#38; Mysterious Powers
Re: The Crawford Award

By the time you see this, you may or may not have slept. The phone call you received last night from Gary K. Wolfe, esteemed science fiction editor and critic (not to be confused with Gary K. Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit), left you giddy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/26/memorandum/</link>
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		<title>The Manual of Detection in Paperback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Manual of Detection will be available on Junuary 26th in Penguin Paperback edition. There&#8217;s a brand new cover for this lightweight, portable version of the novel, perfect for tucking into your briefcase or travel bag. On the inside, it&#8217;s just like the hardcover, minus one typo.
Here are some things you&#8217;ll find in this book:

typewriters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/23/the-manual-of-detection-in-paperback/</link>
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		<title>The Beards of Hamlet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I’ve been watching as many film versions of Hamlet as I can. Last up was Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, notable for being the first unabridged film adaptation of the play, and the last film to be shot entirely in 70mm format.
Also notable, but too often overlooked? The facial hair.
Every instance of facial hair in Kenneth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thirdarchive.net/blog/index.php/2010/01/15/the-beards-of-hamlet/</link>
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