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    <about><![CDATA[I read. I write. And I'm the author of the novel <em>The Understory</em>, which was the winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize and has been short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. I've published short fiction in <em>Chicago Review</em>, <em>Boston Review</em>, <em>The Literary Review</em>, <em>upstreet</em>, and other magazines. More at www.pamela-erens.com. ]]></about>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:23:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[After spending time with Tolstoy and Dostoyevky, Turgenev seems so compact, so pellucid... no wonder Flaubert admired him. <em>Fathers and Sons</em> is both a portrait of a dynamic, even violent time in Russian history (the late 1850s, as feudalism was giving way to a more Western-style economic system) and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/After%20spending%20time%20with%20Tolstoy%20and%20Dostoyevky,%20Turgenev%20seems%20so%20compact,%20so%20pellucid...%20no%20wonder%20Flaubert%20admired%20him.%20%3Ci%3EFathers%20and%20Sons%3C%2Fi%3E%20is%20both%20a%20portrait%20of%20a%20dynamic,%20even%20violent%20time%20in%20Russian%20history%20(the%20late%201850s,%20as%20feudalism%20was%20giving%20way%20to%20a%20more%20Western-style%20economic%20system)%20and%20a%20universal%20tale%20of%20aimless%20young%20men%20and%20women%20and%20the%20grownups%20who%20don't%20understand%20them.%20In%20the%20end%20it's%20really%20about%20the%20way%20we%20all%20shuttle%20between%20a%20conviction%20that%20life%20is%20meaningless%20and%20a%20conviction%20that%20even%20what%20is%20transient%20can%20be%20meaningful.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:09:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Joel, I was interested to see your comments here. For months I've been trying to decide whether to read this book! Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation, whom I respect, raves about it, but I've read other points of view much like yours (Zadie Smith's must have been one). I have the hardcover and have to say that I love the LOOK of it so much it makes me want to give it a chance. But.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:13:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[that makes it sound even more interesting than I thought--the brain connection. I definitely will get to it sometime. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:03:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[this is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking books I've ever read--hope you'll agree, Kathy.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:06:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/507157.Wuthering_Heights">Wuthering Heights (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4191.Emily_Bront_">Emily Brontë</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:13:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This must be the third or fourth time I've read this book--the last time being a decade or so ago--and it never ceases to amaze with its strangeness. What other novel is like this, so fierce, pitiless, and fascinating? How does Bronte bewitch us with the story of a handful of characters ranging from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/This%20must%20be%20the%20third%20or%20fourth%20time%20I've%20read%20this%20book--the%20last%20time%20being%20a%20decade%20or%20so%20ago--and%20it%20never%20ceases%20to%20amaze%20with%20its%20strangeness.%20What%20other%20novel%20is%20like%20this,%20so%20fierce,%20pitiless,%20and%20fascinating%3F%20How%20does%20Bronte%20bewitch%20us%20with%20the%20story%20of%20a%20handful%20of%20characters%20ranging%20from%20unpleasant%20to%20repellant,%20and%20melodrama%20spattered%20on%20every%20page%3F%20%0D%0A%0D%0ASheer%20eerie%20vitality%20and%20imagination,%20I%20reckon.%0D%0A">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436108.The_Rhetoric_of_Fiction">The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/89419.Wayne_C_Booth">Wayne C. Booth</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:00:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If you are interested in the time-honored showing-versus-telling debate, this is the the Compleat analysis. Academic, yes, but congenially written, and useful to any fiction writer. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6727060-in-an-uncharted-country">In an Uncharted Country (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3027946.Clifford_Garstang">Clifford Garstang</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:57:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Garstang's linked stories prismatically reveal the many lives of a rural Virginia community, moving past the external personas his characters present--tough, silent farmer, hard-drinking wife, pregnant teenager--to uncover the strangeness and uniqueness that make up any set of human lives. Some stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Garstang's%20linked%20stories%20prismatically%20reveal%20the%20many%20lives%20of%20a%20rural%20Virginia%20community,%20moving%20past%20the%20external%20personas%20his%20characters%20present--tough,%20silent%20farmer,%20hard-drinking%20wife,%20pregnant%20teenager--to%20uncover%20the%20strangeness%20and%20uniqueness%20that%20make%20up%20any%20set%20of%20human%20lives.%20Some%20stories%20border%20on%20wild--%22Savage%20Source,%22%20%22The%20Nymph%20and%20the%20Woodsman%22--%20and%20make%20one%20feel,%20as%20fiction%20should,%20that%20there%20are%20more%20things%20in%20heaven%20and%20earth%20than%20are%20dreamed%20of%20in%20our%20philosophies.%20%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514824-blame">Blame: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/91696.Michelle_Huneven">Michelle Huneven</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:42:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:24:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ha! Yeah, not great lit, but pretty fascinating. If I find any substitute methods for you, Jim, I'll report back (am looking). ]]></body>
        
    
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