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  <name><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Lee Siegel is a New York writer and cultural critic who has written for &lt;i&gt;Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times&lt;/i&gt;, and many other publications. Siegel is a senior editor at &lt;i&gt;The New Republic&lt;/i&gt; and lives in New York City with his wife and son.

In September 2006, Siegel was temporarily suspended from &lt;i&gt;The New Republic&lt;/i&gt;, after an internal investigation determined he was participating in misleading comments in the magazine's &quot;Talkback&quot; section, in response to anonymous attackers on his blog at &lt;i&gt;The New Republic's&lt;/i&gt; website. The comments were made through the device of a &quot;sock puppet&quot; dubbed &quot;sprezzatura&quot;, who, as one reader noted, was a consistently vigorous defender of Siegel, and who specifically denied being Siegel when challenged by an anonymous detractor in &quot;Talkback.&quot; In response to readers who had criticized Siegel's negative comments about TV talk show host Jon Stewart, 'sprezzatura' wrote, &quot;Siegel is brave, brilliant, and wittier than Stewart will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep.&quot;  &lt;i&gt;The New Republic&lt;/i&gt; posted an apology and shut down Siegel's blog. In an interview with the &lt;i&gt;New York Times Magazine&lt;/i&gt;, Siegel dismissed the incident as a &quot;prank.&quot; He resumed writing for &lt;i&gt;The New Republic&lt;/i&gt; in April 2007. Siegel's critique of Web culture, entitled &lt;i&gt;Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob&lt;/i&gt;, was published in January 2008.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Bronx, New York</hometown>  <born_at>12/05/1957</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Falling upwards: essays in defense of the imagination]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gitagovinda: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Quantitative Toolkit for Economics and Finance]]></title>
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