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  <name><![CDATA[Karen Elizabeth Gordon]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who is most well-known for her comic language handbooks The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, is also author to a collection of short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales was hailed by many critics as Rabelaisian in its humor.

Gordon resides alternately in Berkeley, California and Paris.

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  <title><![CDATA[The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen Elizabeth Gordon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen Elizabeth Gordon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Garden of Eternal Swallows: A Natural Foods Cookbook]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen Elizabeth Gordon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intimate Apparel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen Elizabeth Gordon]]></name>
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