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		<title>My Favorite Albums of 2011.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heard any exciting new music this year? I mean, genuinely exciting, can&#8217;t-wait-to-tell-everyone-about-it music? My friend Jane and I were talking the other day about how this year* seemed to be a particularly bland one for music. Is it the recession? The splintering of musical audiences? Or was everyone waiting for the holiday season to release [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/12/21/my-favorite-albums-of-2011/</link>
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		<title>FilBookFest Events.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled to be reading with some fantastic writers this weekend as part of the Filipino American International Book Festival in San Francisco. First off, I&#8217;ll be reading at Eastwind Books in Berkeley on September 29 (that&#8217;s tomorrow, Thursday) for an event entitled The Places We Call Home, with a killer cast of folks (in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/09/28/filbookfest-events/</link>
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		<title>Day 4: Kill Your Darlings.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m loving the mix of people here. There are teachers, there are MFA students, there are retirees, there are folks like me with day jobs that have nothing to do with their writing. One great thing about the workshop: no name tags. (You can figure out who the writers are by the familiar way they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/09/12/day-4-kill-your-darlings/</link>
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		<title>Day 3: The Literary Liquor Store.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The clerk at the literary liquor store looked at us fiction writers and shook his head. All seven of us were at the register and between us we had only a measly couple of six-packs and a flask-sized Jim Beam. &#8220;The poets drank waaaayyyy more than you folks,&#8221; he said, referring to the poetry workshop the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/08/25/day-3-the-literary-liquor-store/</link>
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		<title>Day 2: Would You Like Some Tea? I Would Love Some Tea!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first real day of workshop &#8212; and that photo above really was what greeted me first thing in the morning &#8212; is led by Karen Joy Fowler. She’s fantastic; I love her work, and happily direct you, dear reader, to What I Didn’t See, her alternately harrowing and enchanting new collection of stories. She&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/08/21/day-2-would-you-like-some-tea-i-would-love-some-tea/</link>
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		<title>Day 1: Jitters in the Valley.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I landed in Reno tired, my eyes red from lack of sleep, lungs breathing in stale cabin air all the way, and I have the jitters. I’m anxious and my nerves are jangly, but it&#8217;s not because of the din and jingle of the slot machines by the luggage carousels. I&#8217;m not jittery because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/08/20/day-1-jitters-in-the-valley/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Blogging, Engagement (and Google Plus).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the early 2000s, one of my fonder blog-related memories was being part of an adobo blog-a-thon, back when I was getting my feet wet in blogging. The idea was that different bloggers would write something, anything, about adobo &#8212; a short essay, a recipe, even fiction or poetry if it moved them &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/07/27/thoughts-on-blogging-engagement-and-google-plus/</link>
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		<title>Shameless Self-Promotion.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago I was talking with some academics (or some writers, I can&#8217;t remember), and the conversation turned to another writer (or academic, I can&#8217;t remember) who was &#8212; make your choice: Getting invited everywhere Getting all the editing/teaching gigs Getting published everywhere Et cetera And then someone said: Well &#8212; that&#8217;s because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/07/12/shameless-self-promotion/</link>
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		<title>Getting Serious.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pile of paper propped up next to my desk. They&#8217;re multiple copies of a chapter entitled &#8220;Arnold Schwarzenegger,&#8221; and it&#8217;s about a philandering businessman stuck in traffic as his long-suffering driver tries to navigate their SUV out of Manila and into the provinces. These copies are from my classmates, from a writing class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/06/14/getting-serious/</link>
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		<title>On R. Zamora Linmark&#8217;s &#8220;Leche.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s no reason why R. Zamora Linmark shouldn’t shoot for the Great Philippine Novel in his ambitious and wide-ranging new book, Leche, even if it’s told from the perspective of a balikbayan, returning to the Philippines after 13 years. The fact that there may be anywhere from 8.2 to 11 million Filipinos overseas – about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/2011/05/16/on-r-zamora-linmarks-leche/</link>
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