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                    [ArticleID] => 598444
                    [Title] => Return of the Raven
                    [Summary] => 

It’s not every day that you encounter a well-written novel with barebones whodunit fundamentals, complete with sociopolitical underpinnings of the Filipino class struggle, set in postwar Manila and its outskirts.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136244 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://a.imageshack.us/img844/7936/lif1thumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209435 [Title] => A Raven in love and death [Summary] => Not many people knew the late Hilario Francia, maybe not even his friends. Mang Larry, even in the closest company, managed to be elusive as ever, like his art.

Tall, lanky and pale, he had an aloof, aristocratic air, complete with the occasional raised eyebrow during conversation that very often rubbed people the wrong way.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209050 [Title] => Writer Francia, 74 [Summary] => Writer and visual artist Hilario Francia died Wednesday at age 74. His body was found late that afternoon by his landlord in his rented apartment in New Manila, Quezon City.

Francia, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Nafaric de Pagsanjan, was a member of the 1960s writers’ group the Ravens, which took its name from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Edited by Hilario Sevilla Francia
Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2002
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1746848 [AuthorName] => Shirley O. Lua [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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