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This is my first week participating in the weekly Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers<\/a>! You can check out this week’s collection of our stuff at Riehl World View<\/a>. I sent them my long-ass rambling link about contemporary fiction, which isn’t NJ-specific at all. I guess I could’ve mentioned that Rick Moody’s Garden State<\/a> sucked ass, but hey.<\/p>\n


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This is my first week participating in the weekly Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers! You can check out this week’s collection of our stuff at Riehl World View. I sent them my long-ass rambling link about contemporary fiction, which isn’t NJ-specific at all. I guess I could’ve mentioned that Rick Moody’s Garden State sucked … <\/p>\n

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