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	<title>The Farm Report</title>
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	<description>Thoughts from a small piece of land in North Central Florida</description>
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		<title>Gonzo: May It Unrest in Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not hard for me to recall my life as a college freshman. When I was a young and impressionable writer, I fell under the spell of Hunter S. Thompson.
It was the early 1970s and after reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his presidential campaign coverage in Rolling Stone, I became a committed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=219</link>
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		<title>Crime and punishment and great reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you’re a police officer, you can only imagine what it’s like having a partner.
We see it portrayed in books and films, and I gather it’s something like a marriage. So when you’re starting out together – when you get assigned a new partner – it’s sort of like an arranged marriage. There’s a sniffing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=212</link>
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		<title>A holiday feast of books and a life-changing recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘Tis the season for many things, and I bet one of them is over-eating.
If you’re going to be a glutton, do it right – and get some food for thought while you’re at it.  Feast on some great food books.
Some are cookbooks and some are books about food. Stay tuned to the end of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=209</link>
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		<title>What the soldier saw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an adage about writing: &#8220;See the war through the eye of the single soldier.&#8221;
I use that line when I talk to students about storytelling. Great writers draw us in to big issues by telling the story through one person&#8217;s eyes.
As E.B. White used to say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t write about Man. Write about a man.&#8221;
Few writers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=200</link>
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		<title>My dark-horse nominee for book of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a very weird world. If you’re in front of me in line at Publix and I commit the offense of talking to you (“Hey, that wheat germ looks right tasty”), you’re likely to call the cops.
But if I go online and friend you on Facebook, you’ll tell me all about yourself – what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=195</link>
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		<title>A mystery with a Mango Sour chaser</title>
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Our measuring stick for suspense is Alfred Hitchcock. No doubt the late English filmmaker altered the bathing habits of millions with Psycho (I know that I gave up showers for baths for a year after seeing it) and because of The Birds, we don’t look at our fine, feathered friends in quite the same way.
Still, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Talking about Hunter S. Thompson with Martin Flynn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This interview with Irish writer Martin Flynn was conducted for Beatscene magazine. It appears on Flynn&#8217;s Web site, http://hstbooks.org.) 

MF. Did you have any doubts or concerns about writing another book about HST?

WM. I really didn’t want to do another book on him. But after his death, I kept getting calls from reporters. I spoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=151</link>
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		<title>Hunter and Duke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This was written at the request of Martin Flynn, proprietor of the site Hunter S. Thompson Books http://hstbooks.org. Martin asked me to write about where Hunter S. Thompson stopped and Raoul Duke began. Please check Martin&#8217;s site for other musings on the topic.)
I was a reporter and anyone who’s worked in that lonely trade knows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Really funny shit from bloggers turned authors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then in class, I mention “the library” and look out to see rows of blank faces. Time to explain myself again.
“It’s like the Internet, only it’s printed out,” I tell my students. “It’s this big building across campus . . . surely you’ve seen it? Has a million or so books?”
Blank stares [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>If Carl Hiaasen isn&#8217;t pissing you off, he isn&#8217;t doing his job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to nominate the University Press of Florida for the state’s highest public service award.
After all, the publisher has brought Carl Hiaasen’s two collections of newspaper columns  back into print in handsome trade paperbacks. Check out Kick Ass and Paradise Screwed (both University Press of Florida, $24.95 apiece).
Hiaasen has always said that if he isn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefarmreport.williammckeen.com/?p=147</link>
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