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new essay: IN A TOWN WHERE I AM GOING TO LIVE, in which i talk about visiting a town where i am going to live

IN XANADU: added a new essay about coleridge's "kubla khan" and the rush song "xanadu"

new essay: "A Retreat to the Customs Office" -- i reckon with the repercussions (good or ill) of my continued attempts to emulate herman melville's biography

for those who prefer to read rather than listen: added essay versions of the "Tribulations of a Chinese Man in China," "Dream of the Red Chamber," and "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" to the BALCKWELL'S BOOKS page