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The styles are more varied than you might expect: stand-outs include the softly urgent ‘Ode to my junk’, a paean to the variety of vaginal pleasure; and an anti-evangelical rant by a poet left sitting at the roadside after a crash by a man wearing a ‘What would Jesus Do’ bracelet.
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Bakery stand-outs: the bean-garnished Irish Coffee, the chocolate-y Mudslide and the tart and salted Margarita.
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One non-genre fiction that is thriving is the memoir, and the first few months of 2011 sees a glut of them, many with a depressing theme: stand-outs include Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay (Granta, February), about the author's struggle with degenerative disease, and Joyce Carol Oates's A Widow's Story (Fourth Estate, March), about her battle to survive her husband's unexpected death.
Books in 2011 – from the new Alan Hollinghurst to David Foster Wallace's unfinished The Pale King 2011
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The styles are more varied than you might expect: stand-outs include the softly urgent ‘Ode to my junk’, a paean to the variety of vaginal pleasure; and an anti-evangelical rant by a poet left sitting at the roadside after a crash by a man wearing a ‘What would Jesus Do’ bracelet.
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First, the talent pool of "named" Master Chefs is dwindling, and this season seems to have few stand-outs even with our "local" boy Hugh Acheson.
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Users will be able to filter home listings to include ones deemed stand-outs by top designers.
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There are hundreds more I could name, but these are the absolute stand-outs for me.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win a SONY Reader. It’s as easy as sharing your emotions. 2009
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Aside from the two stories I mentioned this month and last, there are no real stand-outs in this volume, but there are no duds either.
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All of these wines showed very well, but the Fox Run Cabernet Franc and Sheldrake Point's Gewürtztraminer were real stand-outs, the latter being one of most interesting Finger Lakes Gewürtztraminers I have had the pleasure to taste.
Finger Lakes Dines 2009
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The only stand-outs are Kim Robinson, Karen Traviss, and Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine as a source of short fiction.
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