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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208473.American_Purgatorio_A_Novel">American Purgatorio: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/89511.John_Haskell">John Haskell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:32:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259065.Apex_Hides_the_Hurt_A_Novel">Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10029.Colson_Whitehead">Colson Whitehead</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:32:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of Intuitionist, and I wanted to see what Whitehead did a little further on in his career, so I read this one. The results are kind of mixed: I think maybe the writing is a little better, a little more controlled and self-consciously manipulated, less tick-filled. But the story itself ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I'm%20a%20big%20fan%20of%20Intuitionist,%20and%20I%20wanted%20to%20see%20what%20Whitehead%20did%20a%20little%20further%20on%20in%20his%20career,%20so%20I%20read%20this%20one.%20The%20results%20are%20kind%20of%20mixed:%20I%20think%20maybe%20the%20writing%20is%20a%20little%20better,%20a%20little%20more%20controlled%20and%20self-consciously%20manipulated,%20less%20tick-filled.%20But%20the%20story%20itself%20ran%20aground%20for%20me%20a%20little%20bit.%0A%0AIt's%20a%20story%20about%20a%20guy%20who%20names%20things%20(Nomenclature%20Consultant)%20and%20it's%20written%20in%20this%20very%20showy,%20self-conscious%20style.%20The%20style%20suggests%20that%20the%20choice%20of%20names%20is%20arbitrary,%20at%20least%20on%20the%20level%20of%20meaning--%20that%20things%20appeal%20to%20us%20not%20because%20of%20what%20they%20mean,%20but%20how%20they%20sound--%20but%20like%20I%20kind%20of%20imagined%20it%20might,%20the%20narrative%20arc%20is%20tied%20to%20this%20question%20of%20finding%20the%20right%20name%20for%20something,%20the%20%22true%20name.%22%20I%20think%20Whitehead%20is%20a%20really%20smart%20writer,%20so%20I'm%20confused%20that%20he%20didn't%20notice%20the%20essentialist%20nature%20of%20his%20character%20arc,%20or%20at%20least%20the%20conflict%20posed%20when%20you%20deliver%20such%20a%20sermon%20in%20a%20language%20that%20seems%20to%20really%20undermine%20that%20character%20arc.%0A%0AWhich%20is%20fine:%20there%20aren't%20too%20many%20writers%20I%20read%20where%20it's%20even%20reasonable%20to%20ask%20about%20the%20consonance%20between%20style%20and%20substance%20since%20so%20many%20people%20write%20these%20totally%20bland%20middle%20level%20books--%20hell,%20it's%20my%20default%20style,%20too.%20But%20I%20think%20the%20metaphor%20at%20the%20heart%20of%20_Intuitionist_%20reinforces%20and%20deepens%20the%20thematic%20stakes,%20and%20here%20I%20think%20it%20undermines%20the%20book.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154784.I_Am_Not_Jackson_Pollock_Stories">I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/89511.John_Haskell">John Haskell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:29:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Haskell was another of those names that popped up on my list, alongside F Gander and a couple others I'm sure I'll cycle through in another month or so, and this was the first book of his I could find.... I was interested in what I anticipated to be the cross-genre elements of this, and in that rega...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Haskell%20was%20another%20of%20those%20names%20that%20popped%20up%20on%20my%20list,%20alongside%20F%20Gander%20and%20a%20couple%20others%20I'm%20sure%20I'll%20cycle%20through%20in%20another%20month%20or%20so,%20and%20this%20was%20the%20first%20book%20of%20his%20I%20could%20find....%20I%20was%20interested%20in%20what%20I%20anticipated%20to%20be%20the%20cross-genre%20elements%20of%20this,%20and%20in%20that%20regard,%20I%20wasn't%20disappointed,%20or%20at%20least%20not%20much....%20This%20book%20is%20a%20series%20of%20%22narratives%22%20that%20to%20me%20are%20a%20lot%20like%20essays,%20really--%20usually%20two%20or%20more%20well-known%20figures%20have%20their%20biographies%20rehearsed%20(and%20I'm%20only%20speculating%20here,%20but%20I'll%20speculate)%20and%20augmented%20by%20Haskell%20to%20develop%20some%20idea%20outside%20of%20their%20particular%20lives:%20so%20Joan%20of%20Arc%20and%20the%20woman%20who%20played%20Joan%20of%20Arc%20in%20a%20movie%20and%20Mercedes%20McCambridge%20all%20serve%20to%20develop%20an%20idea%20about%20authority%20and%20submission%20to%20authority.%0D%0A%0D%0ALike%20I%20said,%20there's%20not%20too%20much%20narrative%20here,%20and%20what%20there%20is%20serves%20the%20purpose%20of%20developing%20this%20idea:%20authority,%20desire,%20identity.%20%0D%0A%0D%0AMost%20of%20the%20stories%20concern%20actors,%20and%20there's%20a%20regular%20slippage%20in%20the%20way%20Haskell%20writes%20between%20actor%20and%20character,%20so%20it's%20Janet%20Leigh%20who%20is%20traveling%20on%20the%20highway%20and%20killed%20in%20the%20motel%20in%20Psycho,%20by%20Tony%20Hopkins,%20not%20Norman%20Bates.%20I'm%20sure%20this%20is%20intentional,%20and%20maybe%20it's%20this%20part%20of%20the%20rhetorical%20approach%20of%20the%20book%20that%20makes%20it%20fiction%20at%20all%3F%20But%20it's%20odd,%20and%20I'm%20still%20not%20sure%20I%20fully%20get%20it.%0D%0A%0D%0APart%20of%20my%20idiosyncratic%20response%20to%20this%20book%20is%20that%20I've%20read%20Martone's%20stories%20about%20celebrities%20years%20ago%20and%20a%20couple%20times%20since,%20so%20I%20feel%20like,%20for%20me,%20this%20is%20slightly%20familiar%20territory%20thematically,%20even%20if%20Haskell's%20approach%20is%20new.%20I%20think%20I%20might%20have%20been%20more%20wowed%20if%20I%20hadn't%20first%20read%20Martone.%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20want%20to%20read%20_American%20Purgatorio_,%20to%20see%20what%20Haskell%20does%20with%20a%20broader%20palette.%0D%0A%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563787.When_Angels_Rest">When Angels Rest (Stay More Cycle)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/159630.Donald_Harington">Donald Harington</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:38:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the first Stay More novel I've read, and really, it blew me away.... a while back my friend Daren mentioned Harington and how it was criminal he was so little known, and after reading this, I couldn't agree more.<br/><br/>So let me say this loudly from my internet rooftop: Harington is a gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/This%20is%20the%20first%20Stay%20More%20novel%20I've%20read,%20and%20really,%20it%20blew%20me%20away....%20a%20while%20back%20my%20friend%20Daren%20mentioned%20Harington%20and%20how%20it%20was%20criminal%20he%20was%20so%20little%20known,%20and%20after%20reading%20this,%20I%20couldn't%20agree%20more.%0A%0ASo%20let%20me%20say%20this%20loudly%20from%20my%20internet%20rooftop:%20Harington%20is%20a%20great%20writer,%20on%20a%20sentence%20level%20and%20as%20a%20plotter.%20The%20story%20is%20really%20intriguing,%20builds%20toward%20satisfying%20elements,%20and%20is%20just%20brought%20off%20with%20a%20level%20of%20polish%20on%20the%20level%20of%20the%20sentence%20that%20reminds%20you%20of%20Dickens%20or%20someone%20like%20that--%20you%20feel%20like%20you're%20in%20good%20hands,%20lean%20back,%20and%20give%20thanks%20for%20the%20true%20and%20deep-bodied%20enjoyment%20you%20are%20about%20to%20receive.%20%0A%0AIt%20doesn't%20hurt,%20either,%20that%20the%20book%20has%20some%20moderately%20ambitious%20goals,%20some%20talk%20about%20war%20stories%20v%20love%20stories,%20some%20really%20nice%20crossed%20identifications%20between%20the%20Axis%20and%20the%20Allies,%20and%20just%20generally%20smart%20writing%20about%20how%20a%20really%20small%20place%20can%20form%20really%20significant%20and%20surprising%20connections%20to%20a%20much%20larger%20world.%0A%0AThat%20said,%20the%20last%20movement%20of%20this%20book,%20what%20is%20done%20to%20the%20narrator's%20gf--%20wtf%3F%20That%20seemed%20on%20the%20one%20hand%20totally%20unmotivated,%20and%20on%20the%20other,%20totally%20unresolved%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20book.%20I'm%20more%20than%20willing%20to%20accept%20that%20the%20story%20is%20picked%20up%20in%20another%20of%20the%20Stay%20More%20books,%20but%20in%20this%20one--%20wow,%20that%20was%20a%20shitty%20way%20to%20end%20this%20book!%20I%20want%20it%20to%20put%20the%20period%20on%20the%20thematic%20issues%20introduced%20above,%20something%20about%20love%20and%20war,%20but%20man,%20I%20just%20don't%20see%20it.%0A%0ASo,%20a%20really%20great%20book%20with%20what,%20at%20first%20blush%20at%20least,%20is%20a%20deeply%20flawed%20ending.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234885.Infanta">Infanta (National Poetry Series)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/137408.Erin_Belieu">Erin Belieu</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:35:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I like parts of this: it certainly has some of that gnomic headscratching quality I sometimes like in spite of myself. And the &quot;sexy&quot; poems in section two are pretty great, full-blooded and tearing teeth kinds of poems. But overall, I felt that the poems just weren't quite there-- there wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20like%20parts%20of%20this:%20it%20certainly%20has%20some%20of%20that%20gnomic%20headscratching%20quality%20I%20sometimes%20like%20in%20spite%20of%20myself.%20And%20the%20%22sexy%22%20poems%20in%20section%20two%20are%20pretty%20great,%20full-blooded%20and%20tearing%20teeth%20kinds%20of%20poems.%20But%20overall,%20I%20felt%20that%20the%20poems%20just%20weren't%20quite%20there--%20there%20was%20little%20memorable%20about%20them,%20even%20in%20the%20sexy%20poems,%20phrases%20I'd%20like%20to%20ponder%20and%20play%20with%20some%20more,%20forms%20that%20are%20interesting,%20etc.%20I'd%20read%20Belieu%20again,%20for%20sure.%20But%20this%20book%20feels%20like%20its%20on%20the%20way%20to%20being%20the%20work%20of%20an%20interesting%20and%20celebrated%20poet,%20but%20not%20there%20just%20yet.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139766.Eye_Against_Eye">Eye Against Eye (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/80834.Forrest_Gander">Forrest Gander</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:32:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I got one of my usual wild hairs and thought I needed to read something by Gander, who bobbed onto the radar a couple times. It was good, if different than I thought: this is both sparse and southern, a combo I don't always put together. Neither are totally in my wheelhouse, to be honest, so I don't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20got%20one%20of%20my%20usual%20wild%20hairs%20and%20thought%20I%20needed%20to%20read%20something%20by%20Gander,%20who%20bobbed%20onto%20the%20radar%20a%20couple%20times.%20It%20was%20good,%20if%20different%20than%20I%20thought:%20this%20is%20both%20sparse%20and%20southern,%20a%20combo%20I%20don't%20always%20put%20together.%20Neither%20are%20totally%20in%20my%20wheelhouse,%20to%20be%20honest,%20so%20I%20don't%20know%20what%20to%20think.%0A%0AThis%20one%20comes%20with%20poems%20connected%20to%20pictures%20by%20Sally%20Mann%20which%20I%20think%20are%20hurt%20by%20being%20faced%20with%20poor%20reproductions%20of%20the%20same%20photos%20(which%20are%20landscapes,%20not%20what%20I%20think%20of%20Sally%20Mann%20for,%20really,%20either).%20So,%20these%20are%20solid%20poems,%20and%20a%20solid%20book,%20but%20not%20entirely%20to%20my%20taste.%20If%20you're%20Caroline,%20though,%20and%20wanted%20a%20distraction%20from%20_Deepstep%20Come%20Shining_,%20this%20might%20interest%20you.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6938013-n-1-number-eight">n+1 Number Eight: Recessional (Perfect Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/39845.n_1">n+1</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78667479</link>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:48:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I really like N+1, because it challenges me and makes me feel dumb like I used to when I was an undergrad, a feeling I really don't get often enough. It's good for me, because I don't like to feel dumb and this mag really challenges me, creates the strong sense that there are whole categories of tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20really%20like%20N+1,%20because%20it%20challenges%20me%20and%20makes%20me%20feel%20dumb%20like%20I%20used%20to%20when%20I%20was%20an%20undergrad,%20a%20feeling%20I%20really%20don't%20get%20often%20enough.%20It's%20good%20for%20me,%20because%20I%20don't%20like%20to%20feel%20dumb%20and%20this%20mag%20really%20challenges%20me,%20creates%20the%20strong%20sense%20that%20there%20are%20whole%20categories%20of%20thought%20I%20don't%20have%20even%20a%20passing%20awareness%20of....%20I%20mean,%20the%20editor's%20essay%20took%20me%20an%20hour%20to%20read,%20and%20it's%20like,%20ten%20pages!%0A%0AOn%20other%20more%20specific%20fronts,%20this%20issue%20continues%20a%20general%20trend%20that%20is%20a%20little%20worrying,%20that%20the%20mag%20is%20evolving%20toward%20becoming%20more%20like%20other%20mags--%20too%20much%20fiction%20in%20this%20issue,%20for%20starters%20(I'm%20a%20fiction%20writer,%20I%20love%20fiction,%20including%20fiction%20from%20N+1%20editors),%20and%20all%20cut%20from%20the%20same%20cloth,%20stories%20about%20foreign%20cultures.%0A%0AEvery%20issue%20I%20think%20is%20a%20little%20miracle%20and%20a%20little%20warning%20of%20the%20mag's%20continued%20decline%20into%20being%20indistinguishable%20from%20all%20other%20mags%20I%20like%20but%20which%20blur%20together.%20This%20issue%20is%20no%20exception,%20on%20either%20front.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857125.The_Diary_of_a_Teenage_Girl_An_Account_in_Words_and_Pictures">The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1384972.Phoebe_Gloeckner">Phoebe Gloeckner</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:44:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A pretty amazing document of words, delivered in a voice that feels more or less pitch-perfect-- flat, affectless except when it's not, profane and good, along with comix that supplement and sometimes but not always take up the story.... This is a really solid piece of work, one I used to hear about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/A%20pretty%20amazing%20document%20of%20words,%20delivered%20in%20a%20voice%20that%20feels%20more%20or%20less%20pitch-perfect--%20flat,%20affectless%20except%20when%20it's%20not,%20profane%20and%20good,%20along%20with%20comix%20that%20supplement%20and%20sometimes%20but%20not%20always%20take%20up%20the%20story....%20This%20is%20a%20really%20solid%20piece%20of%20work,%20one%20I%20used%20to%20hear%20about%20a%20lot%20when%20it%20came%20out%20but%20which%20I%20think%20has%20maybe%20been%20forgotten%20under%20the%20avalanche%20of%20other,%20%22all-picture%22%20versions%20like%20Ariel%20Shrag's%20and%20Alison%20Bechdel's.%20%0A%0AMy%20one%20concern%20is%20the%20ending,%20which%20I%20don't%20know,%20felt%20a%20little%20abrupt%20and%20which%20didn't%20really%20seem%20the%20culmination%20or%20completion%20of%20much%20of%20anything.%20It's%20the%20kind%20of%20thing%20that%20I'd%20shrug%20off%20in%20a%20memoir,%20but%20I%20think%20I'm%20supposed%20to%20read%20this,%20at%20least%20in%20part,%20as%20fiction,%20and%20it%20lacks%20that%20shaping%20that%20I%20want%20from%20fiction.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[oh yeaahhhhhh.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148155.Walking_to_Martha_s_Vineyard">Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/85722.Franz_Wright">Franz Wright</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:08:03 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Somebody mention F Wright to me the other day, and I thought, I've never read his work, so I gave this one a shot. I think it's decent-- these are well constructed poems of religious contemplation, alternating with poems about coming to terms with an absent father (the poet J Wright). I do feel like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Somebody%20mention%20F%20Wright%20to%20me%20the%20other%20day,%20and%20I%20thought,%20I've%20never%20read%20his%20work,%20so%20I%20gave%20this%20one%20a%20shot.%20I%20think%20it's%20decent--%20these%20are%20well%20constructed%20poems%20of%20religious%20contemplation,%20alternating%20with%20poems%20about%20coming%20to%20terms%20with%20an%20absent%20father%20(the%20poet%20J%20Wright).%20I%20do%20feel%20like%20the%20religious%20poems%20lack%20the%20kind%20of%20angry%20passion%20I%20think%20characterizes%20the%20best%20religious%20poets%20like,%20I%20don't%20know,%20George%20Herbert.%20They%20seem%20a%20little%20easy,%20actually,%20with%20less%20of%20the%20wrestling%20with%20God,%20the%20fight%20that%20sets%20in%20when%20you%20don't%20want%20to%20submit.%20These%20poems%20seem%20more%20than%20ready%20to%20heel,%20roll%20over,%20and%20show%20their%20throat.%20I'm%20not%20sure%20that's%20a%20problem,%20really,%20but%20given%20the%20spiky%20lines%20and%20etc%20that%20Wright%20works%20in,%20I%20wanted%20a%20little%20more%20fight%20from%20the%20poems.%0A%0AThe%20daddy%20poems%20were,%20by%20and%20large,%20better%20for%20me,%20because%20they%20were%20more%20bruised%20and%20beaten%20up,%20like%20they%20had%20more%20to%20lose.%0A%0AA%20solid%20book%20of%20poems,%20but%20one%20I%20doubt%20I'll%20revisit.%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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