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| | Smoky Mountain News | Reading Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Here are Christmas stories from the South’s best living writers, and though these stories may not be read 50 years hence, it is nonetheless a delight to read any collection of fiction that includes the likes of Larry Brown, Doris Betts, Gail Godwin, Jill McCorkle, Donald Harington, and others. |
 | | In that collection we not only find works by poets from the world’s major religious faiths, but we also discover with great delight that the editor of the collection, Alan Jacobs, has put together some of the lesser-known works of different poets. |
 | | Tony Hendra, who is perhaps best-known for his early performances with British comedians John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and who went on to become an editor of National Review, has given the spiritually wounded and the seasonally stressed a lovely gift in Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul (1-4000-6184-9, $24.95). |
| www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/11_04/11_17_04/book_minick.html (551 words) |
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