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		<title>The World According To DFW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has been on a spending spree for years, purchasing the papers of literary titans like James Agee, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo (among innumerable others).

Now, they&#8217;ve added David Foster Wallace&#8217;s sprawling scribblings to their collection, much of it available online. Highlights include a handwritten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m So Sick Of Goodbyes, Mark Linkous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Linkous took his own life yesterday. I interviewed Mark in 2001, right before It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life came out. Stupid me, I couldn&#8217;t get the recorder to work, which seems peculiarly appropriate. What I remember is here.

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		<title>Barry Hannah on WWII &amp; Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/519</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[believer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great lit Web site The Rumpus has an intriguing piece about the late, great Barry Hannah. Apparently he was a bit of a WWII buff and gave a lecture at Bennington entitled “Military History as Regards Fiction: The Unquenchable Thirst about World War II.” Man, what I would&#8217;ve given to have been there.
Brooklyn writer A.N. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Reality &amp; Its Discontents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite possibly the most brazenly insubordinate and thought-provoking book I have read since Walter Benjamin&#8217;s landmark essay &#8220;The Work of Art In the Age Of Mechanical Reproduction&#8221; is David Shields&#8217;s highly hyped &#8220;manifesto,&#8221; Reality Hunger. (Inverted sentence structure intended, BTW.)
I don&#8217;t know if I am yet prepared to follow Shields into the novels-are-not-really-novels wilderness, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Time with a Salinger</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/492</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember where I was. The library stacks, where a rose-cheeked high-school junior I had a crush on hung out? The alley behind La Petite, where my delinquent friends smoked bowls during lunch hour? A bookstore on the South Side? Or, actually, no, now I remember: I was in college, shamefully belated in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Influential Novels of the Decade</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/442</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the &#8220;best,&#8221; necessarily, but these are the novels, I think, which will cast the longest shadows to the writers of the future.



2000
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

 
2001
Tie: Ian McEwan, Atonement; Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections







 


2002
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

 
2003
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (now that we know it&#8217;s a novel)


 
2004
David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Novel Class</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/437</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t this be a cool class?
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		<title>My brilliant Mom, the Abstract Expressionist</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/351</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phenomenally talented and innovative Susan Michod, who happens to be my mom, is part of an online show over at the esteemed Chicago-based Koscielak Gallery.
Her new work, which in my opinion ranks among the best of her long and thoughtful career, are vivid and vigorous &#8220;mash-ups,&#8221; so to speak, of familiar images from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/342</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Lydia Davis, The Collected Short Stories
Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed

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		<title>WWII in HD</title>
		<link>http://www.alecmichod.com/archives/339</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[counterintelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a writer of a 10-hour History Channel documentary mini-series, WWII in HD. 
It&#8217;s a pretty gripping project, narrated by Gary Sinise and featuring additional voices by Steve Zahn, Justin Bartha, LL Cool J, Ron Livingston, Amy Smart, and Rob Lowe, among others.
Watch the trailer.
&#8220;Four stars&#8230;a fresher angle on a war already analyzed in hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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