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Her books:

Romance on the Road
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Belliveau's discount travel links
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Now reading:
Ace of Spades
by David Matthews
Harrowing but compelling look at growing up mixed race in Baltimore.
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Now watching:
The Office: Season 3 The Office - Season Three
Subtle brilliance from the leads and the minor characters -- Angela, Phyllis, Kevin, Oscar, Toby and Ryan -- only increase the hilarity exponentially. .........................
Now listening to:
Complete Studio Recordings
Led Zeppelin
Incredibly, Zep now have an entire station to themselves (Channel 59) at XM Radio.

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March 9, 2004

Houellebecq's Platform

In Slate, Meghan O'Rourke compares French writer Michel Houellebecq's Platform to Jill Nelson's Sexual Sexual Healing: A Novel, noting correctly that both books acknowledge the move of sex into the realm of commodification, a theme of my forthcoming Romance on the Road.