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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Disability</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/disability/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>This Sweet Nothing Reimagines Nijinsky&#8217;s Afternoon of a Faun</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24097</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24097#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:53:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Toba Singer</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog-Dance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homer Avila]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lisa Bufano]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sonsherée Giles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[This Sweet Nothing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24097</guid> <description><![CDATA[Her duet with Giles, in which both dancers use stilts to place themselves on the same locus, invites us to meet a pair of post-Nijinsky characters, two women who move like languid praying mantises, fluid, deliberate, yet delicate, as they explore a sensuality between women, untested by the choreographers of Nijinsky’s time.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24097/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Shameless Oscar Bait</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23195</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23195#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:09:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerry Maguire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Love Story]]></category> <category><![CDATA[melodrama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscar bait]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rain Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Titanic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Hanks]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23195</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Oscar bait works on you, then you'll treasure the film all your life and hate anyone who speaks a word against it. If not, you will enjoy bitter self-satisfaction every chance you have to snipe at it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23195/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5406</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5406#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan Van Cleave</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5406</guid> <description><![CDATA[He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants, they understand why that matters, and that is the unfolding of their Heartsong . . . And as we learn in almost every religion or philosophy of goodness, it is in giving that we receive. In sharing our Heartsong with others, it goes out into the world, and somehow, circles back to us.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5406/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3295</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3295#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[acting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marlee Matlin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rob Lowe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Hurt]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3295</guid> <description><![CDATA["I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as quality work. I don’t think of legacies or what people think. They are bold moves because I’ve found I can get the most attention with doing things that people don’t expect of me. It’s just the way it is."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3295/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Driftless by David Rhodes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1577</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1577#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:10:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Rhodes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Driftless]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisconsin]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1577</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he stopped writing after a paralyzing motorcycle crash in 1977 he was considered one of this country’s finest writers.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1577/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Deaf Sentence by David Lodge</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1312</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1312#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:32:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1312</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent cacchination encountered everywhere in Beckett’s writing — which characterizes our present lot, with its extended, often forcibly prolonged, old age. Lodge’s transparent prose plays out in a sophisticated informal, everyday voice; his is artful writing that succeeds in that most difficult literary genre, Comedy.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1312/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jill Bolte Taylor&#8217;s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something</title><link>http://calitreview.com/787</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/787#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gestalt therapy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jill Bolte Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stroke]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=787</guid> <description><![CDATA["I had a rare congenital malformation in the blood vessels of my left hemisphere and at the age of 37 the malformation (AVM) blew and resulted in a major hemorrhage in the left half of my brain. On the morning of the stroke, I could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of my life. I describe myself as an infant in a woman’s body."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/787/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/747</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/747#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art exhibit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Diego Rivera]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frida Kahlo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SFMOMA]]></category> <guid
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