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The Times they are acclaimin’

*Fiction writer Charles Baxter talks about writing and life*

Miss Ferenczi, a substitute teacher, begins a stint by ditching a boring lesson on traditional Egyptian irrigation methods and winging it.

Her amazed class of fourth graders is left to sift through the torrent of information she spews and figure out what might be true.

So it goes in “Gryphon,” the title story in English professor Charles Baxter’s latest book, a collection of stories the New York Times named to its “100 Notable Books of 2011” list in November. “Gryphon: New and Selected Stories” is published by Pantheon Books. (more…)

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