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		<title>Elegy for Jesse: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; &#8220;Song For Jesse&#8221; &#124; Nick Cave &#38; Warren Ellis &#124; Official Soundtrack &#124; 2007 &#8230; Earlier lamented, it&#8217;s been a while since I finished a book. Started half a dozen, each eventually laying fallow on shelves and tables, ponds briefly tested by tentative toes. Steinbeck, Murakami, McInerny, Ellis, Capote – in the previous year,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Report: Died on the Vine</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/weather-report-died-on-the-vine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 00:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[iPhone 4G + CameraBag, © maunet.com &#8230; &#8220;Dead Flowers&#8221; &#124; Townes Van Zandt, Roadsongs &#124; 1993 &#8230; For seven years, ivy has grown slowly and steadily across my living room windows. Sparse at first, its delicate leaves dotted the screen with splashes of brilliant green, like parsley placed just so atop some fancy dinner dish. Gradually, dots became patterns,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Light/Dark</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/light-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 19:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; &#8220;Ballad of Distances, Part 1&#8243; &#124; Stars of the Lid, The Tired Sounds of&#8230; &#124; 2001 &#8230; in a windowless room i lie beside you, stretched out long and lithe, your thigh draped over mine. i am breathless as you lie breathing in this lightless pitch. I cannot help but watch your unlit face beaming&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Dress?</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/spring-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; &#8220;Another Sunny Day&#8221; &#124; Belle &#38; Sebastian, The Life Pursuit, 2006 &#8230; Is this dress too spring-y? It is spring. Is this dress too spring-y? She emphasizes the specificity of her statement with playful sternness. Specificity is important to us. It suits our desire for people to listen to words with the respectful admiration they&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Cardigan Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dot&#8221; &#124; Gonzales, Solo Piano, 2005 Over a lovely green dress, straps not quite enough wide, you tried on four black cardigans. One was too long One was too warm One didn&#8217;t provide the coverage required to keep eyes from prying about our affair I marked you. Under an army green shirt I am writ with spidery scratches, the cartography&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Celica Dreams</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/celica-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Smiles&#8221; &#124; Spiritualized, Laser Guided Melodies, 1992 I lie in your bed for the first time. Your steady breath slows my cocaine heart. I dream&#8230; It&#8217;s morning. We wake in your bedroom, smiling. Your parents house in the &#8216;burbs. Kentucky? You rise by the window, body slim, skin like milk. Astrid scampers on the bed. I am&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Snodgrass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unnervingly familiar recount of a wandering mind that looks but cannot find: Looking by W.D. Snodgrass What was I looking for today? All that poking under the rugs, Peering under the lamps and chairs, Or going from room to room that way, Forever up and down the stairs Like someone stupid with sleep or&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Chabon onNovelist Time vs. Blogger Time</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/michael-chabon-time-vs-blogger-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// I tend to obsess on three subjects. Ok, I obsess on a lot of subjects, but these are three of them. For a full list, just take a look around here, you&#8217;ll get the picture: What a rock-star writer Michael Chabon is How douchy and self-serving blogging can feel at times And why, as the first&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Report: Dead Vines, Empty Blinds.Windy, Wet and Cold</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/photog/photography-weather-report-dead-vines-empty-blinds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[iPhone 4G + CameraBag &#124; ©maunet.com Summer&#8217;s bright green ivy vines shade my naked window panes Natural blinds from prying neighbor&#8217;s eyes Autumn charrs the sky, burning dying leaves a brilliant red Wind and rain and wet and cold strips these naked panes, scarred and etched with brittle vines. Voyeurs, take one last long look,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>I Often Dream of Trains</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/i-often-dream-of-trains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo courtesy of Anthony Mitri and the Forum Gallery Last night I dreamt&#8230;. we are riding along the Lower East Side, an elevated train I think, cause traffic doesn&#8217;t seem to slow us down. I am make-upped and perfumed with something that feels and smells like motor oil. We are all talking about the city,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Sister I’m A Poet</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/sister-im-a-poet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sister, I&#8217;m A Poet Poetry lived with you in close quarters in the years between adolescence and adulthood. During that time, your 20&#8242;s, poetry fed a dramatic spirit not yet dampened by the practical and dignified. So then, when we&#8217;d all taken jobs, paying our bills on time, newly cautious to the promise and heartbreak&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bi-Coastal Binge and Burn:Stories of the Bleak and Famous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aging proves the rule of regression: no matter how closely we monitor the pulse of the times, how tuned in we remain to the zeitgeist, we all inevitably yearn to revisit the culture of our youth. We break out our old Howard Jones records, recall our youthful lust, hope and heartbreak to the strains of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging: That&#8217;s not writing. That&#8217;s typing.</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/blogging-thats-not-writing-thats-typing/</link>
		<comments>http://maunet.com/literati/blogging-thats-not-writing-thats-typing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we work on the assumption that Truman Capote’s charming reduction of Kerouak’s amphetamine-driven drivel is accurate, then blogging is certainly an easy target for comparable derision. It&#8217;s not writing. It&#8217;s typing. And as such we shall consider it here&#8230;Henry Miller for the Seinfeld set. Calvin &#38; Hobbs garbed as Salinger &#38; Murakami. You know.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Best of the Decade: Books</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/best-of-the-decade-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so this is not a list of the best books published in the past decade&#8230; simply those I happened to read and enjoy most between 2000-2009. Not too many big surprises here for many of you, but a few are buried or ignored little gems. Some already have their own posts here, others will follow&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Delicious Demon: American Psycho</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I walked past American Psycho in a book store, I was mesmerized by the cover: a vaguely victorian photograph of a sinister, steely-eyed yuppie. I knew it was a grisly book about a psycho serial killer. I didn&#8217;t read these kinds of books. Now, I don&#8217;t mind movie violence. It doesn&#8217;t get inside&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don’t You Finish What You Start!</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/murakami-capote-steinbeck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chairmanmau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a fairly dutiful reader, I tend to follow one rule: Give the book a 50-page chance at grabbing your attention. If it does, commit. Finish the damn thing, even if the deciding early pages prove to be sneaky little posers. For the past year, I’ve broken that rule time and again. The culprits: Truman&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Cheap Date: Don DeLillo&#8217;s Underworld</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/don-delillo-underworld/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t all that impressed with DeLillo when I started pecking away at his ouvre with Mao II. Kinda boring, didn&#8217;t finish it. Then it was Great Jones Street, promising to feed my obsession with all things Dylan. Kinda boring, didn&#8217;t finish it. DL&#8217;s aloof stance and flattened affect made me wonder why I should give a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter of Consequence: Le Petit Prince</title>
		<link>http://maunet.com/literati/little-prince/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first read this charming little book in my native Spanish when I was about 6 years old, before I moved the States. I reread it in English a few years later, then again in French in high school. It&#8217;s likely the first and last book I&#8217;ll ever read in three languages I read The&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Auster&#8217;s Brainy Noirfor Lonely New Yorkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PAUL AUSTER : New York Trilogy &#124; Moon Palace &#124; Hand to Mouth &#124; Leviathan &#124; The Music of Chance Pretty soon after we (the Royal we, you know, the editorial) had moved to New York and secured suitable living quarters on Clinton Street (not the Leonard Cohen version, you know, the Brooklyn one), friend Ben Niles suggested I&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Lepers + Priests:Graham Greene&#8217;s A Burnt Out Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite (or perhaps due to) being a long-lapsed Catholic, I&#8217;d always been curious about Graham Greene. Rumor has it those Brits sure can write. This book concerns a spiritually depleted, world-famous architect who&#8217;s lost the ability to experience pleasure. Dude, that sucks. He leaves his life in New York City behind to live in a&#8230;]]></description>
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