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    "id": 2047,
    "subject": "PW (Publishers Weekly) Review",
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    "first": "1999-12-20T20:31:06+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-20T20:31:06+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0649@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-20T20:31:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PW (Publishers Weekly) Review",
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          "text": "STRANGE TRAVELERS\n\nNot for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, this collection of Wolfe's\nstories published in the 1990s contains death by overdose, suicide,\nArmageddon, cruelty to animals, abuse of children, children willing to\nfalsely accuse fathers of sexual abuse and a plethora of vampiric females\nfigures eager to suck the life out of men. [Individual story critiques--not\nterribly complimentary--snipped] While Wolfe's prose is exceptional and\nthere are a few gems here, such as \"Useful Phrases,\" which delights in how\nwords lead us to and revel mysteries, there are also several tasteless and\nmisogynistic entries. Chief among them is \"The Ziggurat,\" in which a mother\ncoaches her daughters in the art of false accusation and the father--whose\nwife leaves him broke--eventually regains all by finding a woman he can\ndominate and a technology he can steal. All too frequently in this volume,\neven when women show men 'the pleasures of Hell,\" biting them till they\nbleed, men emerge loutish and triumphant."
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