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	Carolyn Chute in hospital with hip injury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		PORTLAND (AP) -- Carolyn Chute, the latest Maine author to land in the hospital because of a motor vehicle accident in western Maine, said Friday she faces a long recovery after suffering a hip injury and multiple bruises.
		Chute, best known for her 1985 debut novel "The Beans of Egypt, Maine," said a delivery van turned into the path of a Jeep driven by her husband, Michael, as they were returning from the post office.
		Chute, who also wrote "Letourneau's Used Auto Parts," "Merry Men" and "Snow Men," is working on two other books, one of them a 2,600-page manuscript for which she has been struggling to find a publisher.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /news/local/1810554.shtml (380 words)

	Colorful author fears poverty unless massive novel is published: 7/7/02
		Chute continued the Bean saga in her second novel, "Letourneau's Used Auto Parts." That was followed by "Merry Men," which she still regards as her favorite, and "Snow Men," the most recently published book that was savaged by critics.
		Chute's rebellious nature, activist bent and taste for satire have led her to engage in protests in support of workers' rights, float the prospect of a write-in campaign for governor and contribute a "Dear Revolutionary Abby" column to the Maine Commons, an alternative newspaper.
		The family's plight recalls Chute's loss 20 years ago of a child that was stillborn, a tragedy that she blames on her inability to get timely hospital care because she and her husband lacked insurance.
	www.s-t.com /daily/07-02/07-07-02/d04ae123.htm (1047 words)

	Bates College \| Carolyn Chute
		Carolyn Chute, author of many books including the critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine, visited English Professor Carole Taylor's seminar on feminist literary criticism in Fall 2001.
		Chute discussed the feminist reception of The Beans, which Professor Taylor's seminar had read and discussed in relation to early feminist criticism of that work and also in relation to Chute's response to that criticism in the second "finished" edition of The Beans.
		Chute conferred with students engaged in thesis work for whom her writing served as a primary text, and under the same grant, she returned during Winter 2002 to address Professor Taylor's storytelling class.
	www.bates.edu /mlap-carolyn-chute.xml (229 words)

	Carolyn Chute Interview with Don Swaim
		Carolyn Chute talks with Don during this 1986 interview about her first novel, The Beans of Egypt, and how she used her experiences living in poverty to mold the book.
		Carolyn Chute, author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine and Snow Man, talks about the challenges of writing fiction.
		A teacher once asked Chute to give a speech at school to discuss creative writing, and she discusses that experience and more in this 1988 interview with Don Swaim.
	wiredforbooks.org /carolynchute (196 words)

	Amazon.com: Snow Man: Books: Carolyn Chute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chute's (Merry Men) latest novel is so alarming in theme, farfetched in plot, graceless and sloppy in prose and close to pornographic in tone that it's difficult to consider it an effort by a serious writer.
		Chute, herself actively involved in two militias and the author of the widely acclaimed and terrifically written The Beans of Egypt, Maine (LJ 3/1/85), would have the reader believe that these two privileged women willingly fall under the sexual thrall of a boorish, violent man whose bedroom behavior is as vulgar as his full-body tattoos.
		Chute was lionized for her earlier books about the Maine equivalent of Tobacco Road: she was the tour guide who would give them a nice, safe viewing of an inferior culture, rather like the way the aristocracy visited lunatic asylums in the 18th century.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156011409?v=glance (2220 words)

	The plausible and the implausible in Carolyn Chute's Snow Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carolyn Chute published her first novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine in 1985, and its sequel, Letourneau's Used Auto Parts, in 1988.
		Chute notices the presence of this sensibility in the American population, and she has decided to write about it.
		Chute tells us that his wife has had to take two jobs, that he has lost the family farm to the state in payment for his mother's nursing-home bills.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/dec1999/snow-d03.shtml (1824 words)

	Carolyn Chute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chute, who herself belongs to what she describes as a "no-wing" militia group, is careful in her author's note to explain that this is not a left-wing or a right-wing book, but a book about class -- as Drummond says, "You're either up or you're down.
		That's all there is to it." And in her presentation of class issues, Chute is swimming upstream against the literary establishment.
		Additionally, Chute's analysis of the militia movement is indistinct, referring vaguely to divisions in the ranks over defensive and offensive tactics.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/99/08/05/SNOW_MAN.html (836 words)

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		In writing classes, I've used Chute's prose to illustrate such cardinal rules of writing as "Show, don't tell." She is a prime exemplar of how detail and specifics bring a manuscript to life.
		Chute's poetry, her astute use of language, that hold the novel together.
		Chute then picks up the torch of her exhausted characters and invents new ones as deputies of her complaints and theories concerning big business, taking special aim at big business's role in education policies, stating that education fails to teach children to be self-reliant and work with their hands.
	www.salemstate.edu /sextant/v5n2/flynn.html (1458 words)

	Bates College \| Carolyn Chute, Prose Writing
		Carolyn, who made her third visit to Bates College as an intermittent learning associate in the humanities in Winter 2003, invited the students to "Pretend we're all on La-Z boys and foutons and the Venetian blinds are hung [references playing off a conversation about the classroom environment of 200 Pettigrew].
		After Carolyn and the students had critiqued the students' work, she shared generously out of her experience as a writer.
		From that sharing, all serious writers present found at least one pearl from her treasure chest of writing advice to take back to the dorm or the Den or the computer lab to mull over and be challenged by.
	www.bates.edu /carolyn-chute-prose-writing.xml (236 words)

	The Dancing Sausage Web Journal: Carolyn Chute Has A Posse
		Carolyn Chute, author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine (Alibris callously lists its subject matter as Fiction Poverty), has apparently formed her own militia, or maybe two of them.
		The woman who brought the 'zine to the IMC says Chute was supposed to speak at the rally, but the stage-hands snubbed her.
		The bearer and author of the 'zine who visited the IMC today told me that Chute's latest book, which is about her experience with her militias, is being held by her publisher until she agrees to having it gutted.
	www.twistedmatrix.com /~gus/dswj/arch/000060.html (597 words)

	The SALON Features: Carolyn Chute's Wicked Good Militia, page 2
		Carolyn Chute clearly doesn't mind, as militia member and Maine journalist Catherine Sengel puts it, "scaring off yuppies." In fact, Sengel feels that Chute's focus on guns serves a pair of distinct purposes -- beyond the fact that Chute's husband loves backyard target practice.
		Chute passes around a copy of a New York Times Op-Ed piece by Reich, in which he advocates giving corporations incentives to be socially responsible.
		Chute's politics have attracted the attention of -- and have been influenced by -- the ideas of the well-known Maine union organizer Peter Kellman, who heads the Maine Chapter of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, as well as the group's national leader, Rich Grossman.
	www.salon.com /08/features/maine2.html (1373 words)

	Feminist Naturalism - Bruce Allen
		The appearance in 1985 of Carolyn Chute's Beans of Egypt, Maine gave the state its most prominent position on the American literary map since the 1890s, when Sarah Orne Jewett's exquisite portrayals of coastal and island people celebrated the integrity and dignity of lives lived, in many senses, on the margins.
		Chute's boldly written story of two sprawling, profane, impoverished, illiterate rural families seemed, and seems today, a raffish rejoinder to Jewett's delicate understatements.
		The resilience of Chute's people, their insistent lust for life (and for one another), gives them a vitality cheerfully disproportionate to their cripplingly inhibiting circumstances.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1992/june/Sa20316.htm (204 words)

	Amazon.ca: Letourneau's Used Auto Parts: Books: Carolyn Chute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Any doubts that Chute could not follow her remarkable debut novel The Beans of Egypt, Maine with another winner will be vanquished by this assured, complex and memorable tale, told in bold, forceful prose.
		We are back in Egypt and in the adjacent, ironically named Miracle City, a squalid jumble of unpainted shacks and trailers that is nonetheless a welcome haven to the residents of this poverty-stricken community.
		Carolyn Chute's manipulation of the English language alone warrants her place at the forefront of America's writers today.
	www.amazon.ca /Letourneaus-Used-Parts-Carolyn-Chute/dp/0156001896 (634 words)

	Interview With Carolyn Chute
		This is an interview with Carolyn Chute, secretary of the 2nd Maine Militia and Border Mountain Militia.
		This piece is written by Carolyn, who insists "the interview style is much more interesting than essays or articles, but real living, breathing interviewers fudge everything—therefore what they write is fake." The fictional interviewer is a representative "institutionally educated" urban-valued, nondescript so-called liberal person who will be known as IUNLP.
		Carolyn, an uneducated redneck novelist, will be known as CC.
	www.newdemocracyworld.org /chute.htm (3353 words)

	100 Unfinished Projects: Article about the Wicked Good Militia
		I recall that Carolyn, who was considering a mock-run for governor on a secessionist platform (which would include New Hampshire and Vermont), was fond of spitting venom about the power of "mammon"...
		They were chosen for their ability to convey some of the major themes I heard from Carolyn at her house and later at an anarchist bookfair at Hampshire.
		With Carolyn, I was just trying to bring her line of reasoning into the light.
	twistedmatrix.com /~gus/proj/chute.html (938 words)

	reflections_on_reading.gif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carolyn Chute was born in 1947, in Portland, Maine.
		She dropped out of high school and married at 16 and was a grandmother at 37, when she first published The Beans of Egypt, Maine, followed by Letourneau's Used Auto Parts.
		Chute herself had been very poor for many years.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~create1/ror_chute.htm (106 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle>Entertainment>Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Author Carolyn Chute with her dog, Margaret, and her husband, Michael, stand at the end of their driveway in front of a clothes line that displays various messages intended to keep the public away.
		Chute battled periods of depression, worrying that she and her husband were sinking into the grinding poverty she wrote about in her signature first novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine.
		Chute continued the Bean saga in her second novel, Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts.
	www.theeagle.com /spotlight/books/2002articles/071102bigbook.htm (753 words)

	Fall 2003 Student Show-FINDING CAROLYN CHUTE: The Search for Heart's Content Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		IN AUGUST CAROLYN CHUTE accepted an invitation to speak at a peace rally in Bath, Maine.
		Carolyn is against the war, but for defense.
	www.salt.edu /fall2003/chute.html (173 words)

	Tim Engles - The Perils of Disembodied Readership - Modern Fiction Studies 47:4
		The middle-class biases that inform Hume's attempted objectivity are again evident in her discussion of three novels by Carolyn Chute, all set in rural Maine.
		Hume goes on describing the lives of Chute's main characters in this manner for several pages, and she notes, as most critics of Chute's work do, that the novels express solidarity with these characters and anger with "the unfairness of the powers that control [their] lives" (258).
		Amidst detailed description of the various "screaming" characters she perceives in Chute's work, Hume pauses to note other, "quiet" characters: "When quiet folk take over neighboring land and build a real house with windows, this is bad news for the tar-paper shacks.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cftde/readership.html (2705 words)

	Appalachian State University News Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		BOONE--Carolyn Chute quickly rose to fame in literary circles following the publication of her best-selling novel "The Beans of Egypt, Maine." The critics’ harsh reviews of the best seller nagged Chute though she wrote other well-received novels.
		Chute will read from her works and answer questions about critics, best sellers and revisions Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
		Chute’s best seller chronicles the life of a family struggling at the poverty line in a small town.
	www.appstate.edu /www_docs/news/releases/info/102999chute.html (431 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| Buzz \| UnCovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carolyn Chute's Snow Man is a prime example.
		Chute asks us to believe that these two intelligent women are powerless to escape the pull of this desperate, hunted stranger, yet she provides no reasonable explanation.
		Eventually, they both put their reputations, their lives, and the career of their father and husband on the line to help save the killer they have come to love.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/032901/uncovered.html (594 words)

	Amazon.com: The Beans of Egypt, Maine: The Finished Version: Books: Carolyn Chute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carolyn Chute is definitely an odd bird, but this book deserves to be read and re-read by anyone with an ounce of human kindness in his/her veins.
		Chute describes...and while I have since been teaching in a nearby state, I can tell you that she is right on in her descriptions of many New England, or for that matter, ANY of the rural and too often depressed locales that cover our country.
		These "families" or really, distended living groups, certainly with no semblage of a nuclear family, tend to always be at the head of the local police department's blotter and also tend to acquire the lion's share of their self admitted need for help and social services.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156001888?v=glance (1687 words)

	Carolyn Chute : The Beans of Egypt, Maine : Book Review
		Salon.com on Carolyn Chute and the 2nd Maine Militia
		Carolyn Chute was born in 1947, in Portland, Maine.
		Carolyn Chute lives in North Parsonfield, Maine with her husband Michael.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/chute.htm (774 words)

	Carolyn Chute Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		But Egypt is not so small, as Chute so tellingly demonstrates in her lamination of that society.
		With her bestselling first novel, Chute placed Egypt, Maine, on the literary map and introduced the world to the Bean clan.
		The Beans are a Maine backwoods family living in extreme poverty, but they retain their exuberant vitality in the face of incredible hardship and violence.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Chute,Carolyn (348 words)

	motore di ricerca hotel e travel on Line agenzie di viaggi un portale per il turismo e per chi viaggia in italia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carolyn Chute interviewed by an "institutionally educated" urbanvalued, nondescript socalled liberal person (IUNLP).
		The author of "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" is leading an army of grave, silent woodsmen in a backwoods campaign against corporate greed.
		An article by Carolyn Chute in Maine Sunday Telegram.
	www.turista.it /world/index.cgi?/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Chute,_Carolyn (172 words)

	Chute - new and used books
		This anthology, therefore, traces the evolution of shooting from Gervase Markham's description of the first use of the flintlock in 1621, to the hammerless sidelock ejector of the late 19th century.
		CHUTE, B.J. - The Moon and the Thorn
		Signed presentation from Chute on front endpaper: "Much love to my dear Betty and Jules, from Joy." Very Good; some edgewear (few tears internally repaired with archival tape) d/j.
	www.isbn.pl /A-chute (356 words)

	The Dancing Sausage Web Journal: I'm Totally Unable To Do Anything But Rant Tensely and Self-Mutilate
		Like all of us, Carolyn's political career (she's running for governor next year) has been altered by recent events, and what with her illness, she has to cut back on the organizing she's doing.
		There was going to be a meeting of the Second Maine Militia soon -- apparently she has separate meetings for the conservatives and leftists, I was wondering how she was finagling that gap -- but she says she can't afford it right now.
		I wish there was something I could do for Carolyn, or to stop the war, or to make the Left stop standing on a corner talking to itself.
	twistedmatrix.com /~gus/dswj/arch/000217.html (783 words)

	Chute, Carolyn: C at Canadian Content
		The Plausible and the Implausible in Carolyn Chute's Snow Man
		Carolyn Chute interviewed by an "institutionally educated" urban-valued, nondescript so-called liberal person (IUNLP).
		Photographs and text by Olive Pierce, with word pictures by Carolyn Chute.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Chute,_Carolyn (223 words)

	ppi.006-Carolyn Chute & the 2nd Maine Militia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carolyn Chute is an enthusiastic supporter of the Democratic Renaissance
		Carolyn Chute, at age 49, isn't running for anything, nor is her "Wicked
		Chute doesn't own a telephone, and that people are forced to write or drive
	www.cyberjournal.org /cj/show_archives/?id='6'&batch=16&lists=cj (1829 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SNOW MAN by Carolyn Chute
		SNOW MAN is a riveting story because it projects certain truisms of today's world, while examining the malcontent population that detests the United States government's policies.
		Chute's attention to detail enhances the setting, and passion for the ideal is a strength the author portrays well through straightforward dialogue.
		This here-and-now, present tense novel encircles the reader and challenges them to examine their own philosophies.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0156011409.asp (394 words)

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