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It’s a fascinating thing when a friend of your youth writes a novel.  Especially a novel set in high school, when your lives were woven tight.  Lyn arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 9th grade, moving from northern California (France…

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I’ve long admired my friend and regular Bacon contributor Lawrence Cook for having clear goals and working towards them with conviction.  I recently asked about her current goals.  “Right now, my goals are to look forward, pay it back, and listen,”…

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The Man Booker Prize might be my favorite of the big literary awards… don’t tell the National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize committees!  I suppose I still look to the Mother Country for some important things, such as royal babies,…

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The vote for Scottish independence will be held on September 18th, and emotions are running high across the Pond.   For a long time it seemed that the vote wouldn’t even be close, with a significant majority of Scots inclined to remain united…

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