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    Karen Hitchcock

    Karen Hitchcock WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS

    53 ENTRIES Karen Hitchcock is a doctor and writer. She is the author of a collection of short fiction, Little White Slips, and the Quarterly Essay Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly.



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    Ill communication

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    In the body and in the mind

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    Horticulture

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    ‘The Weight of a Human Heart’ by Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc; $27.95

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    May 3, 2012

    ‘The Weight of a Human Heart’ by Ryan O’Neill

    The 21 stories in Ryan O’Neill’s new collection are tied together by a preoccupation with language. There are books, magazines, word games, phonetics, grammar lessons, miscommunications, translations on every page. The world exists insofar as it exists …

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