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		<title>Just in time for Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With seven other Carolina writers, I will participate in a Holiday Book Signing and Reception on Dec. 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the South Caroliniana Library, located on the Horseshoe of the University of South Carolina campus, in Columbia. Billed as a &#8220;special literary  evening celebrating South Carolina authors and their recent publications,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=361&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A writer on writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran across this on the Internet today. Barely remembered doing the interview, so I was surprised to find that I saw little I would change if asked the questions again. Here&#8217;s the link: http://www.whohub.com/boblamb Tagged: interview, Q&#38;A, Whohub, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=349&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye to all that</title>
		<link>http://boblamb.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/goodbye-to-all-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[amazing leap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cemetery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[escaped jailbirds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysterious light]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My longish short story titled &#8220;Ghosts&#8221; was appropriate reading for the Halloween season, but it&#8217;s not at all limited to Halloween. Check it out at http://bit.ly/oAIexY. Teenage boys go ghost-hunting in an old Southern cemetery at night. Nothing is the same after that night. I&#8217;ve also published this story in Danish. Don&#8217;t get the two confused. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=333&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Word Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if other authors are as confused as I about how to stir up interest in a new book. Twitter seems to me to be thronged with writers interested mainly in promoting their own work. (I&#8217;m guilty, too.) Facebook strikes me as little more than a neighborly pow-wow, and if it attracts book readers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=330&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God bless the South and Southerners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South is known for its unusual characters, right? They populate the novels of Southern writers like Erskine Caldwell, Harper Lee, Flannery O&#8217;Connor, Carson McCullers. But we Southerners know, don&#8217;t we, that you don&#8217;t have to read one of their books to find such a character&#8217;s prototype? Often they live right next door, or just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=130&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Navy Daze</title>
		<link>http://boblamb.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/my-navy-daze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sailor who never saw a Navy ship? Well, hoist anchor on this story. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=120&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW</title>
		<link>http://boblamb.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who among us, when berating himself for stupid behavior, has not wondered what entity within us has the audacity to address us as “you,” as in such self-criticisms as: “You sure screwed that up” or “What in the world were you thinking?”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=84&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Western literary canon revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the canon’s shapers were mainly men, mainly white, mainly European, and, like all men, not without bias. But nowhere have I seen evidence that any work was admitted to the canon for any reason except that it was believed to be an outstanding work of serious intent.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=54&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://boblamb.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/award-winning-short-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I read somewhere that memory and judgment are the first things clouded by alcohol.”
       “Memory would be okay,” she said.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=30&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring break with a good book</title>
		<link>http://boblamb.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/spring-break-at-pawleys-island-with-a-good-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from spring break at Pawleys Island, S.C., where besides long walks on the nearly deserted beach I read a very good novel: The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. The novel, some 600 pages, was longer than it needed to be, and parts of it, sometimes long parts, could have been (and should have been)  trimmed. But Ms. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boblamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1200702&amp;post=23&amp;subd=boblamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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