<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/if-there-are-any-heavens-nicholas-montemarano.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>08/09/2022</pubDate><title>F&amp;M Professor Reflects on Pandemic's Personal Cost</title><description>In three years, the pandemic has left a wake of loss felt far beyond the campus borders of Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres Nicholas...A Q&amp;A with F&amp;M professor Nicholas Montemarano about his recent memoir,</description><author>Kim O'Brien</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/13794776668623763-11-07-common-hour-montemarano-03-dg.0.0.1200.723.full.jpg" alt="Novelist Nick Montemarano, F&amp;M English professor and recipient of the 2019 Bradly R. Dewey Award for Outstanding Scholarship, discussed truth in fiction at the Nov. 7 Common Hour."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>English</tag><tag>Writers House</tag></tags></item>