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Ep 518 - Black Buck, by Mateo Askaripour
21 februari 2022 · 56 min
We bring our weirdest and most chaotic vibes to our conversation about Black Buck and the forces that inform it, whether that's a bad thing or not is sort of up to you! Lees meer
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Ep 517 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
14 februari 2022 · 1 uur
Roll of thunder, hear our podcast! We're talking about Taylor's Newbery-winning novel about the Logan family working to survive in the Jim Crow South. Also, Andrew makes a joke about The Sims to try and liven things up. Lees meer
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Ep 516 - Maus, by Art Spiegelman
7 februari 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
In response to the McMinn County, TN's unanimous decision to ban Art Spiegelman's Maus from its 8th-grade curriculum last month, we've both re-read the book to encourage a conversation about its continued importance and (sadly) relevance. Also, did you know that Art Spiegelman helped make Garbage Pail Kids? Lees meer
We've made donations to HIAS Pennsylvania and The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia this week.
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Feed Drop: Well-Read Black Girl - Min Jin Lee on Becoming a Writer
3 februari 2022 · 7 min
We're sharing a special preview of the new podcast, Well-Read Black Girl from Pushkin Industries. Lees meer
Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Glory Edim, author and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl community, sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Acevedo and more. You’ll also meet book club members, literacy advocates, and Black booksellers to hear what they’re reading and what it means to be well-read.
In this preview, Glory talks with Korean American author and teacher Min Jin Lee. Min talks about how reading can radicalize young people — in a good way — and how, through storytelling, we can approach a "new reality” by creating a version of the world we want to see.
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Ep 515 - Ratha's Creature (The Named #1), by Clare Bell
31 januari 2022 · 53 min
Clare Bell's novel about prehistoric big cats with language, culture, and fire is also a pretty engrossing adventure about being cast out from your home and discovering the world around you. Time to join the clan of the Red Tongue! Lees meer
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Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 11 & 12
30 januari 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
Enjoy another episode of our latest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
These episodes cover Chapters 27-47 of Part Two.
In Episode 11, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza meet a Duke and Duchess familiar with Quixote's adventures. LARPing and pranks ensue.
In Episode 12, the Duke and Duchess continue to deceive our heroes. There's a wooden horse, a bag of cats, and a governorship (finally).
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Ep 514 - The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (w/ Appointment Television)
24 januari 2022 · 1 uur 25 min
The former hosts of Appointment Television join us this week to talk about Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, the book version of the TV show Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. This book makes that show and all other Dan Brown books seem actually kinda better by comparison? Lees meer
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Ep 513 - Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
17 januari 2022 · 59 min
Yaa Gyasi's debut novel tracks the lasting impacts of the slave trade across multiple generations and continents, through the eyes of two half-sisters and their descendants. Lees meer
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Ep 512 - The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting (w/ Alli from SSR)
10 januari 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
Where did his animal-talking abilities come from? Why is he worshipped by animals all over the world? Why does this book talk about money so much? And why did so few of us read Dr. Dolittle in grade school? Lees meer
This week, we tried to answer these questions (and more) with Alli from the SSR Podcast, a great show you should check out! You can also listen to our previous SSR Podcast collab: Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots with the Bailey School Kids.
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Ep 511 - Coming for Christmas, by Krystyna Allyn (Bonus Episode)
8 januari 2022 · 1 uur 14 min
Two horrible dudes double team one sexy lady in this horny, Christmas-adjacent story. This episode is EXTREMELY explicit, so buckle up!! Lees meer
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Ep 510 - The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2), by Stieg Larsson
3 januari 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
We return to the Dragon Tattoo-niverse this week to discuss the second book of the Millennium trilogy, and to talk about each of the three dozen-or-so named characters tucked inside this book. Lees meer
Need a refresher on Lisbeth and Mikke? Listen to our 500th episode on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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Ep 509 - The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
27 december 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
We learn the art of military strategy, deception, and fire from Michael Nylan's 2020 translation of this classic text. We start by going in-depth on the contemporary political references in Nylan's Introduction to this edition, and then we go blow-by-blow and nugget-by-inspirational-nugget through Master Sun's timeless wisdom. Lees meer
Here's translator Michael Nylan writing about the book for LitHub: "The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It."
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Ep 508 - Jennifer Government, by Max Barry
20 december 2021 · 1 uur
Jennifer Government is one of those near-future satirical works that probably felt a lot farther from reality back when it was originally written. Barry's predictions feel distressingly spot on here in 2021, and his prescience isn't exactly comforting. Lees meer
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Ep 507 - If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
13 december 2021 · 1 uur 6 min
Sometimes a book is so meta it sort of breaks your brain! How to talk about a book that is all beginnings and no ends? How to discuss a book that enlists You, the Reader, in its chicanery? We try to get on the wavelength with Calvino's text. You be the judge of if we get there. Lees meer
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Ep 506 - The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
6 december 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
Sandra Cisneros' first novel is a collection of rapid-fire vignettes about childhood and friendship and race and America. We also check in with the darker side of our recurring guest host, the Iowa Writers Workshop. Lees meer
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Ep 505 - Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
29 november 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
This contemporary Victorian story is chockablock with twists and turns, backstabs and broadsides, as well as Dickensian pornfiends. It also features a steamy lesbian romance between two women desperate to escape their own circumstances. We dive into what makes Fingersmith memorable, as well as where its structure overstays its welcome. Lees meer
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Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 9 & 10
26 november 2021 · 1 uur 34 min
Enjoy another episode of our latest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
These episodes cover Chapters 10-26 of Part Two.
In Episode 9, someone enchants "Dulcinea" and Don Quixote fights a mysterious new foe.
In Episode 10, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza attend a wedding and do battle with a puppet show.
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Ep 504 - The First Fifteen Lives of Henry August, by Claire North
22 november 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
Groundhog Day meets the apocalypse in this week's book, in which the end of the world is approaching at an ever-faster pace through each of Harry August's successive lifetimes spent on earth. Hope you like paradoxes! Lees meer
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Ep 503 - White Noise, by Don DeLillo
15 november 2021 · 1 uur 10 min
DeLillo's award-winning breakthrough novel is a satirical rumination on the fear of death while living in a hyper-consumerist America inundated with information delivered by modern technology. Did we mention it was written in the 80s? Lees meer
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Ep 502 - Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
8 november 2021 · 58 min
This week's book observes society from the outside, asking occasionally uncomfortable questions about what it means to "progress" and to "fit in" and who gets to decide whether a person is doing those things. Lees meer
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Ep 501 - Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State, by Chris Woodyard (Bonus Episode)
5 november 2021 · 1 uur 14 min
We close out Spooktober with a cornucopia of spooky stories from a state we both have a relationship to. Join us for a conversation about ghostly grandpas, paranormal presidents, and spectral students. Lees meer
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Ep 500 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1), by Stieg Larsson
1 november 2021 · 1 uur 36 min
For the Big 500, we go to Sweden to solve a murder and also some financial crimes. And much like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, we also go on at some length about the specs of classic Macintosh computers. Lees meer
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Ep 499 - Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
25 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
Eight stories. Eight women (and plenty more). Eight experiments in genre and form that each explore modern horrors. Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection is filled with weird fiction and intimate nightmares, making it a fitting entry for Spooktober 2021. Lees meer
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Ep 498 - Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
18 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 9 min
A run-down mansion decades past its former glory, a headstrong heroine, a creepy family, and mushrooms all come together to form a perfect, spooky storm in this week's episode. Lees meer
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Ep 497 - Peace, by Gene Wolfe
11 oktober 2021 · 59 min
Spooktober continues! A narrator wanders rooms in his old house, telling the reader stories about his life. Is he an old man responding to a psychological evaluation? Is he a ghost recounting (and selectively editing) his best and worst memories? Will we ever know peace from the miasma of possibilities? Lees meer
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Ep 496 - The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
4 oktober 2021 · 51 min
Spooktober 2021 kicks off with a book about a jerk who turned himself invisible and then was still a jerk! The titular invisible man is a forerunner to a hundred comic book villains, who all suffered some kind of scientific mishap at their own hands and then took it as an excuse to become Evil. Lees meer
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Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 7 & 8
1 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 35 min
Enjoy another episode of our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
These episodes cover Chapters 43-52 of Part One, and the Prologue and Chapters 1-9 of Part Two.
In Episode 7, a few more ancillary characters get their moment in the sun before Don Quixote's companions "enchant" him and bring him home. But Cervantes has heard that Quixote rode again! If only those stories were out there somewhere...
In Episode 8, apparently everyone in Don Quixote's world knows about the novel Don Quixote now? And they sure have opinions!
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Ep 495 - Eragon, by Christopher Paolini (w/ Natasha from Unspoiled!)
27 september 2021 · 1 uur 38 min
Natasha from the Unspoiled podcast joins us this week to hatch a podcast about Eragon, a book that borrows freely from every other fantasy/sci-fi story that existed as of its creation in the early 2000s. Lees meer
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Ep 494 - The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
20 september 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
It's time to solve the mystery of the Boxcar Children! (Or is it The Box-Car Children?) Warner's novel about a quartet of self-sufficient kiddos underwent a major revision 20 years after its debut AND it spawned dozens of mystery-focused sequels despite there not really being a mystery in the original. Tune in to hear about our own secret hideouts and to learn about Andrew's favorite new website for author research. Lees meer
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Ep 493 - Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
13 september 2021 · 55 min
Craig and Andrew said they would record the podcast themselves. This very modern episode about a very modern novel discusses Woolf's signature writing style, the regrets of a postwar British people, and when (or where) you might find yourself Thinking Big. Lees meer
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Ep 492 - Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer
6 september 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning is mostly concerned with big historical questions like "what if nationality had nothing to do with geography" and "what if a boy could make toys come to life," but it also deals with things like "what if noticing gender were a fetish" and "what if all the world's leaders were secretly slamming each other." Lees meer
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Ep 491 - Space Jam, by Nancy E. Krulik (Bonus Episode)
3 september 2021 · 1 uur 12 min
Everybody get up it's time to read now. We got a podcast goin' now. Welcome to the Space Jam! Lees meer
Join us as we talk about a storybook edition of the 1996 cartoon basketball commercial Space Jam, starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny.
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Ep 490 - East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
30 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 10 min
After 488 episodes, we finally return to ol' Johnny Steinbeck. East of Eden mixes autobiography, pastoral fiction, and Biblical allegory -- a cocktail that has dismayed critics and excited audiences for decades. We dig into what works in this sprawling story and what might leave some readers wanting more. Lees meer
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Ep 489 - The Public Burning, by Robert Coover
23 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 6 min
This book is a work of "faction" (that's "fact" plus "fiction") about Richard Nixon's interactions with the physical manifestation(s) of Uncle Sam in the run-up to the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. So, uh, a weird one. Lees meer
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Ep 488 - Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
16 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
There are small flames all over the place! Well, specifically all over a family's house in Shaker Heights, OH in the late 1990s. Ng's bestselling sophomore effort dives into two different but intertwined families whose lives are flip-turned-upside-down by a conflagration of personal mysteries, teenage desires, and a tense adoption case. Lees meer
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Ep 487 - Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
9 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
Everyone! There's been a MURDER! And the person who committed it is still listening to THIS VERY PODCAST!! Lees meer
While we try to figure this out you should definitely listen to us talk about Hercule Poirot, the unassuming-ish detective who is here to discover your deepest darkest secrets and chew bubblegum and is all out of bubblegum.
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Ep 486 - Moonglow, by Kristen Callihan (w/ Heaving Bosoms)
2 augustus 2021 · 2 uur 6 min
Join us for a trip back to Sherlock Holmes Times, as Melody and Erin from the Heaving Bosoms podcast help us talk about Kristen Callihan's Moonglow. The second book in the Darkest London series, Moonglow brings the romance and the supernatural lore in a way that keeps all four of us talking. Lees meer
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Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 5 & 6
30 juli 2021 · 1 uur 37 min
Enjoy another episode of our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
These episodes cover Chapters 28-42.
In Episode 5, Don Quixote rejoins the party. and everyone decides to shack up in the only inn/castle in all of Spain. Secondary characters step into the spotlight with their own stories, including a novel-within-a-novel called The Man Who Was Recklessly Curious.
In Episode 6, Don Quixote takes the backseat for a few more chapters. We have to close the book on Cardenio's Crew, finish the story of the Two Friends, and meet a few more ancillary characters who just love this inn.
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Ep 485 - Heap House (The Iremonger Trilogy #1), by Edward Carey
26 juli 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
In this kid goth Victorian house, objects talk...but only to the people who can listen! Find out what happens to Clod Iremonger and Lucy Pennant in this creepy-yet-kid-friendly novel about a bunch of people who live near (and develop a symbiotic relationship with) trash. Lees meer
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Ep 484 - The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
19 juli 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
The House of the Spirits is a multi-generational, lightly-magical-realism-y Chilean novel that eventually ends up being about Piochet's military coup, but it's also about the importance of studying events over a long span of time to come to a deeper understanding of why things happen the way they do. Something we could all stand to do more of, honestly. Lees meer
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Ep 483 - Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh
12 juli 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
This sensational punk novel from 1993 got attention because it depicts a LOT: drug use, sex, and all sorts of deviance in late 20th-century Edinburgh. You may even be familiar with the film adaptation starring a young Obi-Wan Kenobi! Lees meer
We also discuss Welsh's connections to (and opinions of) local government, the joy of the beautiful game, and why Craig's cultural references stop in the mid 2000s.
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Ep 482 - Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1), by Tamsyn Muir (Bonus Episode)
9 juli 2021 · 1 uur 9 min
We've got lesbian necromancers! We've got spooky mansion murder mysteries! We've got MEMES! What else could you need in your space fantasy? How about a lively chat debating the pronunciation of "Doge"? Lees meer
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Ep 481 - Impostor Syndrome, by Kathy Wang
5 juli 2021 · 1 uur
It's beach season! And that means it's time for beach reads (whatever that means). We discuss the loose meaning of this genre-slash-marketing-term-slash-state-of-mind, plus a very recent book about a Russian spy who has made it to the top of a fictional (but all-too-recognizable) American tech company. Lees meer
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Ep 480 - The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
28 juni 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours is a late 20th-century homage to and interrogration of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. One woman writes it, one woman reads it, and one woman lives it. Now you can listen to us talk about it! Lees meer
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Ep 479 - Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin
21 juni 2021 · 58 min
If you want to read a book where a well-adjusted character responds well to questions about their own sexuality, Giovanni's Room ain't it! But its depiction of one character's internal conflict is still compelling and relevant decades after its release. Lees meer
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Ep 478 - The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
14 juni 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
Celebrated author and essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates entered the world of fiction in 2019 with The Water Dancer. A combination of his appreciation for superheroes and his years spent researching the Antebellum South, it's a book that tries to marry critique of American history with supernatural adventure. It also argues pretty hard for the power of remembrance. Lees meer
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Ep 477 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
7 juni 2021 · 1 uur 11 min
If you've ever read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and thought to yourself "this book is an interesting read except for the part at the end where Tom Sawyer shows up" then buddy I have a book podcast for you (it's this one). Lees meer
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Ep 476 - Moon Quest (Choose Your Own Adventure), by Anson Montgomery
31 mei 2021 · 1 uur 18 min
This week we choose our own lunar adventure! Join us as we learn some moon facts, climb on moon rocks, and make some choices about whether or not to meet Moon Separatists. Lees meer
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Ep 475 - Nancy Drew #1 - The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene
24 mei 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
Carolyn Keene wasn't a real person, and we suspect that the Secret of the Old Clock might not actually meet the technical definition of a "mystery"? But dang if that plucky Nancy Drew and her confident stride aren't fun to talk about anyway. Lees meer
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Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 3 & 4
21 mei 2021 · 1 uur 32 min
Enjoy another episode of our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
These episodes cover Chapters 15-27.
In Episode 3, Don Quixote, the Knight of the Sorrowful Face, and his companion Sancho Panza - after getting their butts kicked up and down the Spanish countryside - bicker about the necessity of getting their butts kicked up and down the Spanish countryside.
In Episode 4, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza lose their donkey (or do they?) before encountering the scorned lover Cardenio. Time to learn this raggedy man's backstory!
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