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Jan.19.2008 Virgins And Martyrs … A powerful bomb destroys a family planning clinic in the Northwest Florida town of Spanish Bay; as firefighters and other first-responders engage in a desperate attempt at rescue, a follow-up bomb, timed to catch them unaware, detonates with lethal results. … A 13-year-old girl collapses in a...	Dec.17.2007 The Women Who Hate Me Allison (Trash) writes poems that brim with emotion, sometimes focused and tender, but more often confused and enraged. The subject in this expanded edition of her collection of poems is Allison’s lesbianism. Although she mentions the freedoms denied her and her “sisters,” the poet ultimately seems...
Dec.17.2007 Trash Trash, Allison’s landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “simply stunning ... a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent.” In addition to Allison’s classic...	Dec.14.2007 Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature Impassioned, personal and highly intelligent, Allison’s (Bastard Out of Carolina) collection of published writings and addresses from the past decade examines issues of class and sexuality through the intricate lenses of autobiography and the literary experience. “I try to live naked in the world...

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