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Nobody disrespects Joshua Lawrence Chamerlain and gets away with it. I will not rest until I've smashed every last kazoo in Maine for this egregious slight.

Posted by ducki3x | November 5, 2008 5:16 PM
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I bet I'd enjoy one of her readings!

Posted by Mr. Poe | November 5, 2008 5:24 PM
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A British expat co-worker turned me on to Carolyn Chute around the time The Beans of Egypt, Maine first came out. Gotta get this new book.

Posted by rob | November 5, 2008 6:41 PM
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I mutter to myself in the tampon aisle all the time. It transitions nicely into muttering to myself by the lube. Can I be a writer too?

Posted by hillside_hoyden | November 5, 2008 7:45 PM
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This is the bit that blew my mind:

"Mr. Chute, her second husband, is illiterate and used to work as a woodcutter and gravedigger. They married in 1978 ..."

Illiterate and married to a writer for 30 years? I can't imagine.

Posted by Kalakalot | November 6, 2008 8:43 AM

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