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	<title>Mike Lindgren</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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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>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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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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		<title>Review: Lush Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2008/03/29/review-lush-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Price
(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008)
Richard Price’s novel Lush Life is a messy brawl of a crime story; diffuse, overlong, ambiguous and vexing, the book is, in short, a perfect fictional mirror for contemporary New York City. Price’s story deals with the fallout of a random murder on the Lower East Side: Two young black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Now You See Him</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2008/03/29/review-now-you-see-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Gottlieb
(William Morrow, 2008)
This canny potboiler about the shock waves of an unexpected death has its creaky moments, but on the whole it is a piercing evocation of the enervation and essential loneliness of domestic life. Nick Framingham is a plodding, small-town, middle-management type whose friendship with Rob Castor, a Jay McInerney-like literary prodigy, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Dissident</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2007/11/11/review-the-dissident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nell Freudenberger
Harper Perennial, September 2007
Nell Freudenberger’s career to date reads like a novel in itself, with her Harvard education, slinky good looks, New Yorker publication, famous literary agent, and mentions in Vogue and Elle. It is a letdown, of sorts, to find that her debut novel is such a banal affair. The Dissident tells the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Twenty Thousand Roads</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2007/11/10/review-twenty-thousand-roads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Writing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons And His Cosmic American Music
by David N. Meyer
(Villard)
It took Gram Parsons just over six years to change the face of American music. Parsons brought fresh force to country tradition with the International Submarine Band, remade the Byrds in his own image on the classic Sweetheart Of The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Guantanamo</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2007/09/29/review-guantanamo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothea Dieckmann [Trans. Tim Mohr]
Soft Skull Press
To most Americans, the name Guantanamo is convenient shorthand for the excesses of the so-called War On Terror. No one who reads Dorothea Dieckmann’s lacerating novel, however, will ever again have the comfort of thinking of the infamous prison in abstract terms.
Guantanamo: A Novel is an unforgiving read. Dieckmann, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Zoland Poetry</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelindgren.com/2007/07/29/zoland-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poetry</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From American Book Review, v 28 #5, July 2007
Why another poetry anthology? The question hangs over the inaugural issue of Zoland Poetry, a new annual from New Hampshire independent house Steerforth Press, like a tacit rebuke. Bookstore poetry sections are clotted with anthologies of every stripe, and the market for poetry being presumably a zero-sum [...]]]></description>
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