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		<title>&#8220;A Shocking &#8230; Tour de Force &#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/08/20/a-shocking-tour-de-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My tolerance for book blurbs has officially just bottomed out&#8230; Of course, everyone knows the “Praise for [insert title or author’s name]” in the opening pages of a book are often just cleverly manipulated snippets meant to make a novel sound better than it is. No one in his right mind would expect an “ad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further Crimes Against the Humanities</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/07/18/further-crimes-against-the-humanities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I wrote a short post called “Crimes Against the Humanities” that included a list of appalling assaults on good writing committed in a recently published bestseller. Last week, I finished editing another title in which the English language, common sense, and storytelling itself all took a brutal pummeling. There are two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of Show v. Tell</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/06/29/the-case-of-show-v-tell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever read a how-to guide on storytelling, taken a creative writing course, or read a blog post about fiction, then you&#8217;ve probably heard the advice “Show, don&#8217;t tell.” More than likely, you&#8217;ve heard it hundreds of times, as it&#8217;s been parroted by countless writing gurus. In fact, this advice is repeated so often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words We Hate</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/06/10/words-we-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Twitter today, I saw the hash tag #wordswehate flash by in my feed. @MrsPickle_, a dangerous woman who reportedly owns multiple shotguns and machetes, was responding to a tweet from @btchygirls, who run the Web site BIBS (Bitches in the Burbs), by saying that she hates the word “moist.” Other popular responses included “trousers,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Book-on-Book Action</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/06/02/hot-book-on-book-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my post Tough Love for Would-Be Writers, I bitched in passing about hackneyed writing guides offering authors pat advice on how to produce film treatments rather than novels. (More on the latter complaint in my next post: The Case of Show v. Tell.) Despite my earlier rant, though, I do think there are tons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Vignette 5</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/05/26/lost-vignette-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 01:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5. When I was eight or nine years old, I became depressed by the realization that for the rest of my life I would never have anyone to talk to except other human beings. I wanted desperately to speak with animals or objects or anyone nonhuman who might have something interesting to say. So I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Vignettes (3 &amp; 4)</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/05/25/lost-vignettes-3-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 18:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3. My mother told me unambiguously: “Do not try to take it off the dresser. You’ll only end up breaking it.” &#8220;It&#8221; was a glass snow globe I&#8217;d gotten that same day. Just before bed, my mother let me hold it—but not shake it, for it was too big for my small hands—to see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Vignettes (1 &amp; 2)</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/05/24/316/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While going through some old files this week, I came across a series of vignettes I wrote about ten years ago in the voice of a character called Benjamin Hermes. Each of them has to do with a childhood memory, a little moment of wonderment or loss. Over the next few days I&#8217;ll post some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sic!</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/05/18/sic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the lost art of editing&#8230; The other day, a publishing friend of mine sent me the title page from a book she found on her boss&#8217;s shelf. (Look closely now. Or at least more closely than the editor did.) &#160; Also, here&#8217;s the pile of books I have to proofread this month:]]></description>
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		<title>Aller-Retour Sens/Charabia</title>
		<link>http://behopkins.com/2011/05/17/aller-retour-senscharabia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. E. Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gibberish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading my post on &#8220;Translation as a Tool,&#8221; the art critic who commissioned my recent translation project sent me a link to a site created by an New York-based artist he works with. It serves as a fitting end to my short series on translation. If you let it run long enough (a couple [...]]]></description>
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