An American Dream<\/a> by Norman Mailer. I’ll try to write about those this weekend, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorry for the lack of new posts, dear readers! It’s sorta inconvenient to write here at my in-laws’ home. That means no year-end Unrequired Reading post till this weekend, and probably no pix from our today’s (overnight) New Orleans trip till then. But I bet they’ll both be worth it. This week’s answers to “What … <\/p>\n
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