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            <title><![CDATA[John Franklin Bardin: Notes on the Obscure Surrealist Noir Writer who Walked so David Lynch, Paul…]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:11:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Seconds’ (1966): A forgotten sci-fi masterpiece]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 01:00:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Almodovar’s The Room Next Door (2024) and the Vice of Superstition]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Escape Hatches]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Rosenberg]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:40:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When to Forgive]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:16:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tie-Dyed Owl of Minerva]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Rosenberg]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:14:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is it Bad to Make an Exception?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:45:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Border Crossings at a Therapeutic Prison: Some Thoughts after Reading Chuck Bowden’s “Torch Song”]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Degrees of Reality]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Rosenberg]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Carnival of Souls (1962): The Horror of What Lies Beneath]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:59:24 GMT</pubDate>
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