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	<title>Mike Lindgren</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cheever in Charge</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2009/07/31/cheever-in-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blake Bailey. Cheever: A Life. Knopf. March 2009.
Blake Bailey, ed. John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings. (Library of America, No. 188.) Library of America. March 2009.
Blake Bailey, ed. John Cheever: Complete Novels. (Library of America, No. 189.) Library of America. March 2009. 
John, your reputation in American literature is very, very shaky. God knows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Names, Short Stories</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2009/07/08/big-names-short-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unstoppable: Joyce Carol Oates&#8217;s &#8220;Dear Husband,&#8221; (Ecco, $24.99) is savage, poetic and ruthless. Oates deals with characters and themes she has often covered before &#8212; violent men, desperate women, lives scarred by alcohol and poverty &#8212; but her touch has never been surer, her insights never more piercing. At least one of these stories (&#8221;Landfill&#8221;) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men Behaving Badly</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2009/05/01/men-behaving-badly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What ever happened to the American Man? You know, the one who bullied and swore and drank his way through novels full of cigarette smoke, big cars and red meat? The one who&#8217;d abandon his family for a prostitute, or coerce his girlfriend into a threesome, or sleep with the housekeeper after murdering his wife? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Updike is a keen observer in his final book of poems</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2009/04/22/john-updike-is-a-keen-observer-in-his-final-book-of-poems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was always hard not to be secretly a little annoyed at the late John Updike for being . . . well, so good at everything. The famous novels aside, memoir, travel reportage, children&#8217;s literature, humor, literary criticism and essays on everything from Renaissance painting to Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams poured from his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: NoVA</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2009/03/12/review-nova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[James Boice Scribner
(Scribner Book Company, 2008)
James Boice’s novel NoVA is a harsh, beautiful worm’s-eye view of a contemporary America in the process of slow collapse, and possibly the best — the most fully realized, inventive and emotionally plangent — novel to appear in the last five years. Boice, who is only 26, combines an astonishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Kissing Dead Girls</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2009/03/12/review-kissing-dead-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daphne Gottlieb
(Soft Skull Press, 2008)
San Francisco-based performance poet Daphne Gottlieb is one of the most innovative voices in American poetry today, having carved out a space for herself out on the distant intersection of avant-garde verse, feminist theory, and popular culture. Her latest volume, Kissing Dead Girls, is another gleeful, high-speed smear of mordant humor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Cake</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2008/10/15/review-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[D
(The Armory, July 2008)
Cake is a smart, speedy little bomb of noir fiction by a writer whose nom de plume is simply “D.” This slim novella is the latest offering from a new “street-lit” imprint called The Armory, from edgy Brooklyn house Akashic, and if you detect a whiff of coded language in the term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Man in the Dark</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2008/10/15/review-man-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Auster
(Henry Holt, August 2008)
In Paul Auster’s inventive new novel Man in the Dark, an aging writer named August Brill narrates stories over the course of a single long night to keep his mind off a devastating series of recent family tragedies; near dawn, his granddaughter joins him for an intimate pre-dawn conversation. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Soiling of Old Glory</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2008/04/21/review-the-soiling-of-old-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis P. Masur
(Bloomsbury, April 2008)
I had never seen the photograph that is the subject of Louis Masur’s The Soiling of Old Glory: the Story of a Photograph That Shocked America, but I recognized it immediately, viscerally, on some unconscious level. Boston: that photo was taken in Boston. Although I moved there some fifteen years after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: American Music</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2008/03/29/review-american-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Martin
(Copper Canyon, 2007)
With this lively debut collection Chris Martin establishes himself as a young poet with an arresting voice. American Music is a series of light-stepping meditations on city life that manage to be both profound and playful, with an unpretentious freshness that sets it apart from the usual hipster-in-the-city banalities.
Like all true New [...]]]></description>
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