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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Literary Criticism</title>
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		<title>The White Tiger, Capitalist India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White Tiger Aravind Adiga HarperCollins, 2009 321 pp “Sweet-maker&#8230;that&#8217;s my caste, my destiny,” says the protagonist, Balram Halwai, in Aravind Adiga&#8217;s novel, “White Tiger.” Another character in the novel asks the question, “Do you think sweet-makers can manage fourth gear?” Western readers are not used to reading about castes, an historically rigid class system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Erdrich&#8217;s Novel, Shadow Tag</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shadow Tag Louise Erdrich HarperCollins, 2010 255 pp Reading theorists have told us many times that readers take an active part in creating the very narratives they&#8217;re reading. A text is not static, no matter what the intention of the writer. Once the story goes out there, we, as readers, begin a kind of paint-by-numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Munro, &#8220;Too Much Happiness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too Much Happiness Alice Munro Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 304pp Alice Munro is one of those rare literary icons who has the distinct reputation as a crossover writer. She is admired by academics for her literary sensibilities, the mainstream for her easy-to-identify-with characters, and fiction writers who continue to be amazed at her ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought about love once And then decided to See a movie instead. I thought about love again Just yesterday as the Inflated clouds dragged Themselves through The brush of blue sky Sealing into paper- Wrapping silence One eager plane with its Tired cargo of travelers. And today, well, I cannot tell a lie. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teenage Love Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Showing up on time Is the easy part. The dashboard of My rented car Free of dust, Wax-clean, Vacuumed carpets And a lemon smelling Tag dangling from The rear view mirror. One more look In the sun-visor Mirror, an angled glance At the straggly sideburns. Fly firmly zipped. Spitting on my closed Index fingers, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorrie Moore, &#8220;A Gate at the Stairs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to write a review of a novel that has significant events that cannot be revealed without destroying the tension of those events. In the same vein, Internet film reviews often caution their readers that the review contains spoiler information that gives away key plot information. If you&#8217;re writing a review of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roberto Bolaño, &#8220;By Night in Chile&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  jokingly made the comment to a friend of mine that English majors, like myself, seem to revel in literature that&#8217;s hard to get the first time round. That doesn&#8217;t mean second readings don&#8217;t enhance our understanding of a work. It&#8217;s just that we sometimes distrust our I-get-it reactions as being superficial because they&#8217;re too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Wray, &#8220;Lowboy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insanity as a literary theme has always had an audience—those ardent peeping-Toms who love to wallow around in somebody else&#8217;s mania. And there is something about the draw of a house fire or a mangled car on the Interstate that seeps into our indifference with the power of a jackhammer. Add a paranoid schizophrenic, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Gass, Bards and Storytellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Harper&#8217;s Magazine essay, &#8220;Go Forth and Falsify,&#8221; William Gass made the comment that a &#8220;storyteller&#8217;s assignment&#8230;was to glorify the past and its daring, protect the family tree, justify male ownership of land&#8230;&#8221; among other obligations. It appeared at first glance that Gass had no aesthetic sympathy with the classic role of the [...]]]></description>
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