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  <title>Blue-eyed Devil</title>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[He has little discipline as a writer, but Knight goes anywhere with a latter-day Beat irreverence and a punk irreverence (combined, oddly, with some real reverence for things like Five Percenter doctrine that I find, well, nutty). There's a great 100-page section from about pages 50-140 where he goes looking for the identity of Wallace Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam, and turns up enough secret histories to fill several Charles Portis novels. (I have a line like that in my <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/05/DDFN18M22B.DTL">Chron review</a>, but I think this is a better version of it.) Then he wanders around some more. So not entirely satisfying as a piece of writing (it's listed as a novel with all the standard disclaimers, even though many of the figures within are well-known people in American Islam, maybe because one of them later sued him for depicting her as shallow and self-obsessed, and because taqwacore band The Kominas wrote a song alleging she gave handjobs, which they had to remove from the web), but in parts, one of his most compelling explorations of how to be punk, Muslim, American, a wrestling fan, an apostate, and ten other things, all at the same time.]]></body>
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