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	washingtonpost.com: Charles Baxter; Texas Doctor Tried to Save JFK's Life
		Charles R. Baxter, 75, one of the doctors who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, died March 10 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he had been a professor emeritus of surgery since 1993.
		Baxter was a 34-year-old assistant professor at the Dallas medical school and director of the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was brought to the hospital.
		Baxter was a native of Paris, Tex., and was a 1950 graduate of the University of Texas.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30370-2005Mar12?language=printer (309 words)

	Testimony Of Dr. Charles Rufus Baxter: Vol. VI, p. 39.
		Baxter - I was conducting the student health service in the hours of 12 to 1 and was contacted there by the supervisor of the emergency room, who told me that the President was on the way to the emergency room, having been shot.
		Baxter - Although it would be unusual for a high velocity missile of this type to cause a wound as you have described, the passage through tissue planes of this density could have well resulted in the sequence which you outline; namely, that the anterior wound does represent a wound of exit.
		Baxter - Yes; passing through the fascial plane which you have described, it could well not have these things happen to it, so that it would pass directly through--almost as if passing through a sheet of paper and the wound of exit would be no larger than the wound we saw.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /russ/testimony/baxter.htm (2792 words)

	Burning Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Had short story writer and novelist Charles Baxter approached the height of his powers at the beginning of this century instead of at the end, his would likely be a household name, and his stories, published in that era's popular magazines, would no doubt be eagerly awaited, read out loud and passionately shared.
		Baxter captures each in a crisis — the departure of a lover; the birth of a child; the reappearance, after 14 years, of an ex-wife; the aftermath of a neighbor's confession of murder; the discovery of an apparent bombing plan.
		Baxter himself likens this odd quality to Magritte's paintings: "realistic and weird, simultaneously." The stories are set in the cities and suburbs of the Midwest, a region the Minnesota-born Baxter has described as creating "a sense of enclosure.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/061997/article003.shtml (1096 words)

	Baxter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All originated from the surname Baxter, originally a Scottish or East Anglian name meaning a baker (often a female baker).
		Baxter, a solicitor, in the story The House Surgeon in Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling.
		Timothy Baxter in The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baxter (290 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Off the Page: Charles Baxter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles Baxter: I had been to a middle-school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and it occurred to me that it might be possible to write a book in something of a hybrid form: a novel of voices, a novel that was halfway to being a play.
		Charles Baxter: It all depends on what you mean by "romantic love"--all I meant by it was a form of obsessive yearning that doesn't quite submit itself to reason.
		Charles Baxter: Nearly all of those essays were the result of deadlines: I was a faculty member at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and I had to come up with a lecture every six month or so.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A31975-2003Aug22?language=printer (2943 words)

	Baxter's Procrustes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baxter having expressed the desire that the poem be not read aloud at a meeting of the club, as was the custom, since he wished it to be given to the world clad in suitable garb, the committee went even farther.
		Baxter was inclined to protest at this, on the ground that his copy would probably be worth more than the royalties on the edition, at the usual ten per cent, would amount to, but was finally prevailed upon to accept an author's copy.
		Baxter had been sitting over in a corner during the reading of the reviews, and had succeeded remarkably well, it seemed to me, in concealing, under his mask of cynical indifference, the exultation which I was sure he must feel.
	eserver.org /fiction/procrustes (3984 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Baxter
		Charles Baxter has gained a reputation as a writer's writer with novels such as Believers and story collections like Through the Safety Net and Harmony of the World.
		Baxter imbues this scene with gravity, levity, warmth, intimacy and the illusoriness of the assumption that we possess our lives, our selves.
		Charles Baxter is the author of seven works of fiction (including The Feast of Love, Believers, Harmony of the World and Through the Safety Net), a book of poetry (Imaginary Paintings), and a collection of essays (Burning Down the House).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Baxter (1093 words)

	Michigan Writers Series - Charles Baxter, 09/13/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles Baxter is the author of the novel The Feast of Love (Vintage), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
		He was born in Minneapolis in 1947, graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. degree in 1969, and the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Ph.D. in 1974.
		Baxter now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
	www.lib.msu.edu /vincent/writers/fall02/091302.htm (181 words)

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		What we have from Baxter is somewhat conflicting testimony, but with more "side of the head" and "temporal" and "parietal" statements than "occipital" or "back of the head" statements.
		In any case it seems that Baxter is either terribly unreliable or is often misquoted, as seem to be all of Breo's and Posner's 'allies'.
		In the face of recent testimony from Baxter that's inconvenient, Aguilar turns to the attack and says that Baxter's opinion has "changed with the wind." The problem for Aguilar is that, even if he can prove Baxter to be lying scum, that does not make him a "back of the head" witness.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /aguilar/agg9.txt (1068 words)

	Alibris: Charles Baxter
		The plot of Baxter's novel consists of scandalous tales supposedly told to the author by his neighbors--all of whom seem to be involved in sexual imbroglios that intertwine and enrich each other in the telling.
		Charles Baxter and 12 other writers discuss memoir-writing in general, and privacy and family traumas in particular.
		Charles Baxter's first collection of short stories, which won an Associated Writing Program Award when it was published in 1984.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Charles_Baxter (805 words)

	Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter \| Brian Charles Clark
		Baxter reads the tropes of America the way a masseuse approaches muscle, feeling for knots and eddies in the landscape of textured skin and sinew.
		Baxter’s case against epiphanies in fiction has echoes in the anti-psychiatry movement, especially in the writings of the post-Jungian James Hillman.
		Baxter tries, and in my view succeeds, to give back to American fiction the things that have been suppressed in more than a century of ruthless realism and abject materialism.
	www.wdog.com /brian/Scriptorium/baxter_review.htm (810 words)

	WAG: Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love
		Charles Baxter shifts effortlessly from Borgesian introspection to a documentary-style interviewer in his new novel about the seemingly indefinable qualities of love.
		Despite his protestations, though, the fictional Baxter does indeed let Bradley and his friends (his two ex-wives, a neighbor and a co-worker, to be more exact) tell their stories (all of them, in their different ways, about love), and the rhythm and focus of the text shift dramatically.
		It's a measure of Baxter's immense skills as a writer, I think, that he manages to turn what might have been a shaggy-dog collection of loosely connected stories into a shockingly complex novel whose central purpose depends intimately on the union of diverse voices.
	www.thewag.net /books/baxter.htm (1328 words)

	Print Charles Baxter Biography -- AEI Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles Baxter was born in Minneapolis in 1947.
		Charles Baxter graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul and after completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit.
		In 1985 Charles Baxter followed with his second collection, Through the Safety Net, which contained his often reprinted story "Gryphon," about an eccentric substitute teacher who baffles her fourth grade class with her esoteric knowledge of mythology and superstition.
	www.aeispeakers.com /print.php?SpeakerID=1140 (244 words)

	Charles Baxter (Bold Type Magazine)
		The Feast of Love is portioned into sections called "Beginnings," "Preludes," "Middles," "Ends," and "Postludes." "Preludes" opens with his waking in a fright late one night not knowing who he is, only that he is. He recognizes his wife lying next to him and that she knows him.
		On his walk, Baxter runs into his neighbor Bradley, a managing partner of Jitters, a coffee shop in the mall, walking his dog Bradley, otherwise known as Junior.
		It falls into the category of the unknown, where plain speech is inadequate to the obscurity of the subject." Baxter's characters are drawn with a precision that is warmed by the richness, depth, humor and affection that he layers in to render their lives true.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0600/baxter (474 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Charles Baxter
		Baxter: I was thinking about those old narrative forms: The Canterbury Tales or The Decameron, the sort of forms that Calvino was drawing upon in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, a chorus of voices talking about similar subjects or one subject.
		Baxter: This is a dumb way to answer it, but first of all it has to come from the writer; the writer has to feel it.
		Baxter: If you're reading a novel by Dickens or Austen or Thomas Hardy, when a new character comes on, the character's face is going to be described and it's going to be used as an indication of what that person's character is like.
	www.powells.com /authors/baxter.html (4267 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Charles Baxter
		There are the gentle humor and genuine characters we have come to expect in Baxter's novels, but this time there are also the scary, spooky elements necessary for a good ghost story, and an intentionally unresolved anxiety that keeps a reader troubled to the end.
		Baxter first wrote about Saul and Patsy Bernstein twenty years ago in a short story, and they have since popped up once or twice in other places.
		That Baxter is able to invest all of this with his own kind of midwestern magic, yet can often fool even very good readers into thinking he writes a kind of realistic fiction, might be seen as the true measure of his talent.
	www.arborweb.pair.com /reviews/0310.baxter-review.html (478 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		Baxter was born in Minneapolis in 1947, and when he was fifteen months old, his father, who sold insurance, died of heart failure.
		Baxter explains that he enjoys contradicting the notion that Midwesterners are not “story-worthy.” In one of his poems, Baxter compared living in a landscape with no oceans or mountains to a woman who will not kiss you back.
		Baxter is acknowledged as a brilliant craftsman whose greatest gift is the compassion with which he reveals his characters, especially his women.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4709 (2577 words)

	Dr. Charles Baxter
		The Associated Press story was datelined Dallas, Texas, and it told of the death at 75 last week of Dr. Charles Baxter, one of the surgeons who tried to save the life of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
		Baxter was 34 and the emergency room director at Dallas' Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was taken after being shot in Dealey Plaza.
		In time, however, Baxter openly discussed Cowart's wish to die with Don, his mother, his attorney and others, considering all the moral, ethical, medical and legal ramifications of letting a patient choose death.
	homepage.mac.com /bigdealz48/iblog/B1210487251/C732263198/E382454676 (878 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Feast of Love: a Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For by the time Baxter brings his tale of love and loss and redemption to a close, his characters have all found their way to the feast--bittersweet though some of the dishes may be.
		Baxter begins, for example, as himself, the author, waking in the middle of the...
		Charles Baxter did an amazing job of showing how deep down everyone just wants to be loved.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/037570910X (1302 words)

	CRANIA: Le Mot Juste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles Baxter, author of two novels and three collections of short fiction, has been an "easy" fiction writer for critics to label, even though he has been pigeon-holed with generous praise.
		Heralded for its precise craft and intelligence, Baxter's prose has invariably been applauded for its "deftness," its "luminosity," its admirable "grace." After reading Baxter (and his reviews) for years, I'd like to suggest that the work is being underserved by such superficial, if sincere, readings.
		Baxter takes no shortcuts as he traces the path of faith through a world drawn to the simplifications of fascism.
	home.comcast.net /~lrsilagi/Crania/crania/issue2/lemotjuste.html (522 words)

	Amazon.com: Through the Safety Net : stories (Vintage Contemporaries): Books: Charles Baxter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baxter specializes in ordinary lives--each story is an accretion of details, some funny, some disturbing, that create a complete world.
		Baxter only hints at what might be happening in Dinah's life, but he does it so well that the ambiguity of his mild-seeming conclusion, "Then she went back to the window, cupped her hands on both sides of her face, and looked outside to see what was happening," is truly chilling.
		Baxter brings the beauty of language and the saving grace of personal affection to his characters.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679776494?v=glance (1088 words)

	UBToday Online Alumni Magazine
		Charles Baxter, Ph.D. His blue eyes dancing with a smile, Charles Baxter looks like he should be in heaven.
		Although Baxter's advanced degree is from Buffalo, his writing focuses on his native Midwest, often on the semirural, imaginary town of Five Oaks, Michigan.
		Baxter's ability to combine an unusual narrative structure with rich characterization resulted in "a remarkably supple novel that gleams with the smoky chiaroscuro of familial love recalled through time," reviewer Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times.
	www.buffalo.edu /UBT/UBT-archives/06_ubtsp97/classnotes/alumni_profile2.html (1149 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SAUL AND PATSY by Charles Baxter
		Bookreporter.com - SAUL AND PATSY by Charles Baxter
		Charles Baxter's new novel, SAUL AND PATSY, may be the longest short story ever written.
		SAUL AND PATSY is a Midwestern pastoral: Baxter evokes a Michigan whose flatness holds a "sensual loneliness" and whose cities are losing their personalities through the ups and downs of the industries that created them.
	aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/0375410295.asp (329 words)

	Burning Down the House : Essays on Fiction, Graywolf Press, Charles Baxter
		Novelist Charles Baxter's essays on contemporary fiction dissect the connections between life, values, and art with unerring and insightful precision.
		Baxter compares the dysfunction in contemporary fiction to the removal of the villain from politics.
		Baxter seems to want to burn away a lot of what has come to dominate the literary scene.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_1555972705.html (685 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Charles R. Baxter; surgeon treated Kennedy in Dallas
		Charles R. Baxter, one of the surgeons who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot, has died, a colleague said.
		DALLAS -- Dr. Charles R. Baxter, one of the surgeons who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot, has died, a colleague said.
		Baxter was the emergency room director at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was taken after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/03/15/charles_r_baxter_surgeon_treated_kennedy_in_dallas (273 words)

	Term Paper on CHARLES BAXTER
		Charles Baxter Authors often write differently in novels then in short stories.
		This isn't always the case but most times it is. Charles Baxter writes pretty much the same way in his novel's as he does in his short stories.
		Baxter takes real life events but always adds a little twist to plot to intrigue the reader.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/CHARLES_BAXTER-1191.html (178 words)

	Charles in Charge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some authors like to preach a separation between themselves and their protagonists, and some blur the distinction until you’re not sure which is which.
		Baxter comes to town this Tuesday to read from The Feast of Love and set the record straight as to how much Charles we should read into Charlie.
		Charles Baxter, Tue., May 22, 7 p.m., Borders, 1727 Walnut St., 215-568-7400.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/051701/ae.pickc.shtml (180 words)

	Charles Baxter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baxter is known for blending a quiet, sometimes absurdist wit with a profound sympathy for his far-from-perfect characters, as well as for the consummate brilliance of his prose.
		His writing has been compared to that of Anton Chekhov, William Trevor, Alice Munro, and John Cheever.
		Baxter graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul and in 1974 received a Ph.D. in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Baxter (405 words)

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