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  <name><![CDATA[Michael Shilling]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Michael Shilling is a Lecturer at the University of Michigan, where he received his MFA in Creative Writing. His stories have appeared in The Sun, Fugue, and Other Voices. A recovering rock musician, he played the drums in The Long Winters, as well as numerous other bands in Seattle. Currently, he is working on a novel set in Victorian England.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Joan Didion, Wallace Stevens, Stanley Booth, Robert Coover, Steve Erickson, Virginia Wolff, Amy Bender, James Ellroy, Anne Sexton]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>NYC</hometown>  <born_at>06/15/1970</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Rock Bottom: A Novel]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Hierophant]]></title>
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