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		<description><![CDATA[fil·a·ment noun \ˈfi-lə-mənt\ : a single thread or thin flexible threadlike object, attaching one thing to another. ~dictionary.com I loved Jess Walter’s book Beautiful Ruins. Probably because of the perfect clarity of the writing and the wonderful characters. But, there was something else I loved equally well. I’ll call this something else a “filament,” for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Semester at Rosemont College</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week I start a new semester at Rosemont College. I&#8217;m taking three courses: Novel Craft (basically everything one needs to know to write a novel without the topic, characters, setting, plot or theme &#8212; it&#8217;s like a having a cookbook but no access to a grocery store); Literary Theory (a discussion of all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Abyss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware the Abyss Written for my Creative Nonfiction Class &#8211; Fall 2011 by Thomas Jay Rush I am standing on the brink of an abyss. I am looking out over a cliff into a beautiful and terrifying landscape. I’m concerned that if I take an initial step into that country I may not return. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rediscovering Nonfiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rediscovering Nonfiction Written for my Creative Nonfiction Class &#8211; Fall 2011 by Thomas Jay Rush I was walking north on 22nd Street near the Philadelphia Art Museum a couple of weeks ago. As I strolled, angrily listening to a podcast, I noticed a homeless man sitting on a stoop. Unconsciously, I inched toward the outer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Things That Are Going to or Should Happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jay Rush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Penn State University should start a research center devoted to the study of child abuse. They should study the techniques that men use to lure children and their parents into danger. They should study the way institutions like Penn State and the Catholic Church hide the perpetrators. Penn State should become the center of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Nonfiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jay Rush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a course in Creative Nonfiction with Anne Kaier at Rosemont this semester. Anne is an excellent teacher. Creative Nonfiction is hard to define. I think of it as &#8220;Telling truth through story.&#8221; By this I mean that when one writes Creative Nonfiction one makes a promise to the reader that one will stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Celebrity Look Alikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jay Rush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never heard of three of them, one is a drunk the other is a terrible actor.]]></description>
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		<title>Starting new semester at Rosemont</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I started a new class at Rosemont College. It&#8217;s called Modern Creative Non-Fiction. We are going to read nine books in nine weeks: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sklott, Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, Italian Days by Barbara Grizuitti Harrison, Catfish and Mandala [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rome and Amalfi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jay Rush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been writing a lot over here in Italy. Will post somethings once I get home and am able to re-write and edit. These days it seems all I do is re-write and edit. Still working on Collected Short Stories from May. About 85% completed with second drafts. The goal in May was 120 short works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemingway&#8217;s Six</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jay Rush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting discussion about Hemingway&#8217;s famous six word story here. I started thinking about this and I wondered if Hemingway&#8217;s particular ordering of those six words were the best possible ordering. I wrote a simple (six line) C++ program to permute the six words and print out all 720 different combinations of the [...]]]></description>
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