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		<title>My review of William T. Vollmann&#8217;s Imperial on PopMatters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PopMatters has published my review of Imperial by William T. Vollmann. 
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		<title>My review of Calvo&#8217;s Wonderful World in The Quarterly Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review of the Spanish writer Javier Calvo&#8217;s novel Wonderful World appears in the new issue of The Quarterly Conversation.
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		<title>Why Stephen Elliott writes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of Stephen Elliott&#8217;s Happy Baby, and I&#8217;m very much looking forward to picking up his new book, The Adderall Diaries, soon. Of late he&#8217;s also been editing The Rumpus, which has very quickly become one of the best literature and culture sites around. A couple weeks ago, he published a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=1046&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (nonprofit) future of news</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Massing has a terrific piece on the future of news in the New York Review of Books. (Thanks to Scott Esposito for pointing this one out).
The news business is in serious trouble these days, but Massing&#8217;s take is more optimistic than most. The reason? He (correctly, I think) identifies nonprofit business models (such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=1041&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ambulance-chasing essays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for popular culture, the essayist&#8217;s chronic invocation of its latest bandwagon fads, however satirically framed, comes off frequently as a pandering to the audience&#8217;s short attention span&#8212;a kind of literary ambulance chasing&#8230;.There is something so depressing about this desperate mining of things in the air, such a fevered search for a generational Zeitgeist, such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=1035&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer book reviews</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/summer-book-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent return to full time work has made it more difficult for me to continue to update this blog regularly. (For the past several months, I&#8217;ve been dedicating all of my writing time to working on material intended for publication elsewhere.) But, I&#8217;ve missed posting here terribly, and I intend to get back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=1018&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Informant: high crimes in my hometown</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/the-informant-high-crimes-in-my-hometown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Decatur, Illinois, the one-time &#8220;Soybean Capital of the World,&#8221; home to almost eighty thousand people and also to ADM, one of the world&#8217;s most powerful (and least-known) multinational corporations. In central Illinois, ADM transforms the bountiful harvest of some of the world&#8217;s best farmland into artificial sweeteners, ethanol and biofeuls, food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=1001&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My new review on PopMatters: Potato by John Reader</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/my-new-review-on-popmatters-potato-by-john-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PopMatters has published my review of the journalist John Reader&#8217;s history of the potato, titled (surprisingly enough) Potato. If you&#8217;re going to read just one history of the potato, this probably shouldn&#8217;t be it. 
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		<title>&#8220;The beard makes the bard&#8221;: Poets ranked by beard weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Second Pass: at A Journey Round My Skull, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert offers &#8220;commentary&#8221; on The Language of the Beard, which he alleges to be a forgotten tome penned by &#8220;one Upton Uxbridge Underwood (1881 – 1937)&#8230;a deipnosophist, clubman, and literary miscellanist with a special interest in tonsorial subjects.&#8221; I suspect this book does not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=984&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My review of Nothomb&#8217;s Tokyo Fiancée in Rain Taxi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rain Taxi has published  my review of Amélie Nothomb’s Tokyo Fiancée as a part of its Spring 2009 Online Edition. 

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		<title>My review of Amina Cain&#8217;s I Go To Some Hollow on PopMatters</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/my-review-of-amina-cains-i-go-to-some-hollow-on-popmatters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 11:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PopMatters is now running my review of Amina Cain&#8217;s I Go To Some Hollow, a collection of unconventional and fleetingly lyrical short stories.
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		<title>My review of Roche&#8217;s Wetlands on PopMatters</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/my-review-of-roches-wetlands-on-popmatters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review of Charlotte Roche&#8217;s controversial novel Wetlands has been posted on PopMatters. 
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		<title>My review of two new books by J. Robert Lennon on PopMatters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pieces for the Left Hand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New on PopMatters today: my dual review of Pieces for the Left Hand and Castle by J. Robert Lennon, out simultaneously from Graywolf. 
A side note: I also recently read an earlier novel of Lennon&#8217;s called The Funnies, which I&#8217;d thoroughly recommend. It&#8217;s a bittersweet family comedy about a young artist coming to terms with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=963&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New review in The Quarterly Conversation</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/new-review-in-the-quarterly-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Kehlman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Quarterly Conversation has just posted my review of the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann&#8217;s novel Me and Kaminski. 
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		<title>Unjustly overlooked Novel About My Wife</title>
		<link>http://goodreadings.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/unjustly-overlooked-novel-about-my-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Michael Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emily Perkins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Perkins&#8217;s Novel About My Wife recently won this year&#8217;s Believer Book Award, but has otherwise gone almost entirely unnoticed in the United States. I&#8217;m extremely glad that the folks at The Believer have now brought the book to my attention: Perkins has written a flat-out terrific novel, and I hope that the receipt of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodreadings.wordpress.com&blog=3502962&post=943&subd=goodreadings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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