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Jun.02.2013 - 2:16 pm
Animal shelters, no matter how wholesome their inception, no matter how considerate the staff, no matter how well-funded the facility, are always sad places: barren ...
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May.25.2013 - 8:05 am
At dawn, the window of sky above our narrow river valley is featureless, a muddy pool, but at the lake the horizon opens to reveal a thin band of robin's egg blue in the...
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May.12.2013 - 7:34 am
Each is the size of a finger, as slippery as a spark of moonlight on roiled water or an individual note of a Miles Davis riff. There's no moon tonight but the silvery...
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Oct.30.2012 - 5:26 pm
While the media bombards with rending images, mind-numbing statistics, and dire predictions of a storm a thousand miles away, my world is defined by an inescapable...
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Published Reviews
Oct.15.2009
Published by Book List
“Don't piss anyone off.” That is the direction given to graduate student Jenny Dunfree by her boss as he sends her off to live in a jungle near the Colombian border and continue...
About Louise
My mother published a novel when I was six. Before that, we had been your typical suburban family: father working, mother staying home and taking care of the eight children (did I mention that we were Catholic?) but once the media got a hold...
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Causes Louise Young Supports
articulation of indigenous rights (organization: Cultural Survival)
sustainable, renewable, and independent energy sources
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Louise’s Favorite Books
THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES by Roberto Bolano, THE SPELL OF THE SENSUOUS by David Abrams, ANIL'S GHOSTS (or is it maybe IN THE SKIN OF A LION?) by Michael Ondaatji,...
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