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		<title>And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  ~Sylvia Plath</title>
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		<title>The End of Everything by Megan Abbott</title>
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		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/currently-reading/when-god-was-a-rabbit-by-sarah-winman</link>
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		<title>Writing a New Novel: No Skippity Hopping in the Clouds Here.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a post from novelist Linda L. Richards, and her words about writing a new novel were especially timely, as I am in the desperate, despairing, wonderous, challenging, exciting, maddening process myself.  When I came across her conversation with Margaret Atwood about writers and their new projects, I thought: Aha!  That&#8217;s it.  We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/the-writing-life/writing-a-new-novel-no-skippity-hopping-in-the-clouds-here</link>
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		<title>Your Talisman or Mine?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to say I am not a superstitious person.  I&#8217;d like to say that I am logical and clear-headed and capable of reason beyond all else. But, then, anyone who knows me would call me out, screaming in that way of children, Not it! I&#8217;m more superstitious than I would like to admit.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/the-writing-life/your-talisman-or-mine</link>
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		<title>Natural Disasters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natural Disasters (Palimpsest Press, 2007) Longlisted for the ReLit Awards! Natural Disasters is the first poetry collection from Andrea MacPherson. It explores memory and history, asking if it is possible to inherit the past and the generational complexities that come along with it. Stories of lost sisters and marriages based on card games combine with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Away (Signature Editions, 2008) Away is inspired by travels abroad. Never leaving Canada far behind, Andrea MacPherson takes us with her on her grand tour of Europe from Ireland and Scotland to France and Greece, where the vast legacy of human history and her own ancestral origins mark her so subtly that, as a record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When She Was Electric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When She Was Electric (Raincoast, 2003) &#8216;When She Was Electric is a powerfully poetic story of secrets and departures that vibrates with the energy of family ghost and chilling events.&#8217; - Herizons When She Was Electric is a layered, evocative first novel from a young writer. At its heart is a wrenching disruption&#8211;the disappearance of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/books/when-she-was-electric</link>
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		<title>Beyond the Blue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiction Beyond the Blue (Random House, 2007) &#8216;Given these cramped circumstances and its generally naturalistic tenor, Beyond the Blue is a surprisingly poetic account of working-class life. A fine memorial, then, to MacPherson&#8217;s own Dundee-born grandmother, and to a way of life whose passing is scarcely mourned.&#8217; - The Georgia Straight In a Scottish mill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/books/beyond-the-blue</link>
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		<title>September Looms&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last year has been an incredible, strange, busy, wonderful one for me&#8211;I took a permanent position as Creative Writing Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley last September, and three days later had a baby girl and went on a year-long maternity leave [thank you, UFV, for a wonderful maternity leave!].  Having a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/the-writing-life/september-looms</link>
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		<title>More Funding Cuts to the Arts???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  With all the new funding cuts to the arts, you might wonder what the arts will look like.  How better to express it than with something visual?  Thanks to artist Perry Haddock for forwarding this beautiful, if tragic, view of the arts.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/the-writing-life/more-funding-cuts-to-the-arts</link>
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