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		<title>The Moment of Lift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about Melinda Gates and her New York Times bestseller, &#8220;The Moment of Lift.” I’ve been thinking about women in community. I’ve been...]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Books Were Always My Refuge&#8221;: Top 10 Reads for Right Now</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Cook returns to Bacon today with a wonderful selection of her Top 10 Reads for Right Now. Why has she been reading so much...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Southern Gothic Reimagined: Twin Peaks &#8211; and Delicious Foods (Guest Post by Lawrence Blank-Cook)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[My husband and I have just finished watching the old &#8220;Twin Peaks&#8221; (from the 90s). I&#8217;m still trying to figure it out. There&#8217;s murder, a...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Art, Truth, and a Trip to Venice (Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Regular Bacon contributor Lawrence Blank-Cook hopes to get a trip to Venice out of this post.  Good luck, Lawrence!  You were an awfully good sport about...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Post:  Lawrence Blank-Cook on Brown Girl Dreaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People&#8217;s Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming, a memoir in verse about growing up...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Post:  Lawrence Blank-Cook on Cancer and The Passage of Time</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Cook&#8217;s favorite guilty pleasure is reading in bed with the entire family &#8211; each with their own book or newspaper.  With daughters getting bigger, she...]]></description>
		
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