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    <body><![CDATA[Louis Menand talks about voice here. I love his unorthodox view, and share it. Voice is not natural, but constructed. Right-o. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardly a single essay in here could maintain my vested interest.  The one exception here was Gerald Stern's essay about the bullet in his neck, but I would more recommend finding the particular issue of Georgia Review it came from than to buy this, which is tainted with the kind of stilted, faux-lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32209961">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my second foray into the best American Essay series and there are some good ones in here. My favorites include Rick Moody's &quot;Against Cool,&quot; a look at the origins and meanings of cool; and Kathryn Chetkovich's &quot;Envy,&quot; a personal essay about a relationship between two write...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fairly interesting collection. The &quot;My&quot;s have it: &quot;My Yiddish,&quot; by Leonard Michaels and the astounding &quot;My 80s,&quot; by Wayne Koestenbaum.]]></body>
    
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