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    <body><![CDATA[A great book to read after <em>The Blindfold</em>, it covers a range of topics, including the boundaries and puzzles necessary for eroticism to survive (&quot;A Plea for Eros&quot;), the mask one must put on to survive in a crowded city and the benefits of sometimes lifting that mask (&quot;Living with Stran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29074682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[hustvedt can marvelously interweave the art illuminati into her fiction w/o seeming pretentious or pedantic, and writes straightforward non-fiction essays in the first person without seeming narcissistic. i find her to be wonderful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this collection of essays in december of 2006 and my new years resolution for 2007 is to meet siri hustvedt ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intriguing essays by a very fine novelist and, incidentally, the wife of Paul Auster.]]></body>
    
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