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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became an admirer of Leonard Michael's fiction when I read The Men's Club twenty years ago.  The Men's Club is a short, mordant novel about seven men who gather in the Berkeley hills to discuss life, hardly a topic I can imagine tackling with any six of my male friends (for me it's a one-on-one su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39045146">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I get a sweet and sickly feeling from these stories.  The content is NY and there's a draw to better times to big city life, but I've been hooked by the writing style.  Sentences are clipped just so...everything is said just so...the reader is given information just so.  I can't love this book, it i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5357040">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brief explorations of human interaction, usually with a sexual charge, always with deep, carefully rendered feeling, be that feeling callousness, desolation, or awe. I especially loved the mathematician title character of the Nachman stories. I will definitely be seeking out more of Michaels's work....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3840114">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Raymond Carver Fans, Anyone who secretly finds getting their haircut a sensual experience]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 19:15:30 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[From Wikipedia:&quot;His son Jesse Michaels was vocalist in the seminal underground punk rock band Operation Ivy, a precursor to Rancid.&quot; Little to do with Michaels other than getting me thinking how everything just adds up unknowingly provoking something else. How we all affect change even if ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10597219">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being a collection of short stories that covers a wide period of time (from the first collection of stories: Going Places (1969) through: A Girl with a Monkey (2000) and the Nachman stories), it is wonderful to progress through the variety of highly distinctive  and unique stories that Leonard Micha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12924440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read most of the stories in this book in their original, now out-of-print collections (I WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM IF I COULD, GOING PLACES and SHUFFLE) or in Harper's magazine and other literary journals.  A cool, funky high school teacher of mine suggested I read I WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM twenty ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11295910">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 20 19:04:14 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best American writer you've probably never heard of. Until a month ago, he was a no name to me. Now, I'm reading everything I can find by and about Leonard Michaels. Here's a leaner, meaner Roth, all excess verbiage burnt off; a pitch-perfect, tonally complex Amerikan Kafka for the late, not so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23554388">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="49760360">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Leonard Michaels was a Jewish, NYC-born writer of short stories. Most of his short stories are about intellectual Jewish men and their sexual hang-ups, the kind of well-tread material that usually has me rolling my eyes. However, Michaels is good at his craft and I especially enjoyed the later stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49760360">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ratty dysfunctional New York, self-hating Jewish intellectuals, peeping Toms outside the rabbi's window:  Leonard Michaels, bookworm and seducer, lived through the tumult of the late 60s and early 70s, when downtown living was cheap and rough. Boy does he have stories to tell. Few writers manage pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31611948">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading this collection of Michaels' short stories.  I was not that familiar with him, and it was interesting to watch how his stories changed over time in form and content and shape, even.  I think I enjoyed his 'Nachman' stories the most, though some of his earlier work was brilliant, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15052012">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 11:36:34 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though I'm also excited to read his more well-known early stories, I must admit I'm hopeful that the stories about a mathematician will be a notable exception to the slew of tired drivel put out in the past ten or so years using mathematics as a vehicle for tired plot lines about some mysterious rec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6941914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another writer I haven't read yet. Curious, after reading an analysis of narrative structure from a portion of his story &quot;Eating Out&quot; a cluster of short narratives, by David Lodge in &quot;The Art of Fiction.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the real deal. the man brings it]]></body>
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