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		<title>Infinities by John Banville</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infinities John Banville Alfred A. Knopf, 2010 273 pp “&#8230;.the gods love to eavesdrop on the secret lives of others.” So says the novel&#8217;s narrator and mythological character, Hermes, son of Zeus and Maia, the cave woman. If we&#8217;ve forgotten our mythology 101, Hermes is also the messenger. And does he have a story to [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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>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>
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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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