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		<title>Bad Bookshops: An Appreciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural anxieties are currently running high about the future of the book as a physical object, and about the immediate prospects for survival of actual brick and mortar booksellers. When most people think about the (by now very real) possibility of the retail side of the book business disappearing entirely into the online ether, they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=218&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Read W.G. Sebald</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of one of contemporary literature’s most transformative figures. On December 14, 2001, the German writer W. G. Sebald suffered a heart attack while driving and was killed instantly in a head-on collision with a truck. He was fifty-seven years old, having lived and worked as a university [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=216&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spielberg and the Tintinologists</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It won’t reach American screens until December, but Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” opened this week in the U.K., where its dramatically quiffed protagonist is a more iconic figure. For a children’s adventure film, it has provoked some startlingly intense reactions in the British press. Writing in the Guardianlast week, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=213&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weird, Wild West: Patrick deWitt&#8217;s The Sisters Brothers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Empathy in fiction is a strange thing. It is possible to experience an imaginative connection with a character in a novel that would almost certainly be beyond us were that character a real human being in the world. A character’s actions, no matter how terrible, are often secondary to the way in which he or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=207&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flann O&#8217;Brien Centenary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 5th will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the great comic geniuses, and one of the most inspired literary minds, of the twentieth century. He was born Brian O’Nolan in 1911, but is now most widely remembered as Flann O’Brien, the pseudonym under which he published “At Swim-Two-Birds” and “The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=204&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>@Reading in the Age of the @Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker&#8216;s Book Bench blog Last week, Amazon announced the launch of @Author, a new feature for the Kindle that will enable readers to highlight a particular passage of an e-book in order to ask its author a question about it. As yet, it’s operating only in a limited beta version, but a number of high-profile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=178&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Writer&#8217;s Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker&#8216;s Book Bench blog A few months ago, I went through a major Flannery O’Connor phase. I read her novels for the first time, and re-read the short stories, none of which I had looked at in years. In the middle of this surge of renewed enthusiasm for her work, I stumbled across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=172&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Vann Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Millions For a writer whose own life has been so central to his work, David Vann is nothing like what you might expect from reading his books. His writing is thrillingly dark, haunted by personal trauma and utterly ruthless in its exposure of human perversity and frailty. In person, however, he is among the warmest, most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=169&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The E-Reader of Sand: The Inner Conflict Between Consumer and Booklover</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Millions “I can show you a sacred book that might interest a man such as yourself” – Jorge Luis Borges, “The Book of Sand” Like many people who love to read, I exist in a paradoxical state of having both far too many books and far too few. I probably don’t have many more than the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=167&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Ladd Interview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mongrel Magazine, November 2004 Generally regarded as rap’s arch-intellectual in residence, Mike Ladd is the rapper/producer behind the high concept supergroups The Infesticons and The Majesticons. With these, he created a hypothetical universe where two clans are engaged in an epic battle for the soul of hip-hop culture &#8211; a struggle of substance against form, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markoconnell.net&#038;blog=1055851&#038;post=161&#038;subd=markoconnell&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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