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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Me Wrong: The dangers of lecturing your readers</title>
		<link>http://jasonroberts.net/2010/01/dont-get-me-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the strange, heady powers that the writing of fiction awards is the arrival of multiple mouths. You&#8217;ve got one brain, but get a story going and all of a sudden you&#8217;re compelled to speak in several voices. Here&#8217;s the temptation: since you&#8217;ve got to put words in all those mouths, why not channel [...]


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		<title>The Cutesy Whimper: How the L.A. Times is Eating Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times is doing what a lot of drain-circling newspapers are doing, i.e., spewing content onto the web, in the vague hope that it will somehow add up to a full-scale transition from one medium to another. But they’ve made a crucial mistake, one that undermines not only their old (dead trees) brand, [...]


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		<title>Annexing Tomorrowland: when fantasy invades the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been surprised to find myself re-reading, after god knows how many years, the massive Titan science fiction trilogy by John Varley. Berkeley Original paperbacks from 1985. The three books (Titan, Wizard and Demon) weren&#8217;t even side by side on my bookshelves, but their broad spines beckoned. How come? Oh yeah: I recently visited Disneyland. That&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>A Robotron Story, or, What&#8217;s YOUR Excuse?</title>
		<link>http://jasonroberts.net/2009/07/a-robotron-story-or-whats-your-excuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a reference to a &#8220;Robotron&#8221; manual typewriter, and at first I thought it was concocted term out of Steampunk fiction. Why else would a writing machine (not even an electric one, mind you) bear such a high-tech moniker? Robotrons are real. The VEB Kombinat Robotron was a manufacturing combine formed in [...]


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		<title>Bad Blurbs, Good Books</title>
		<link>http://jasonroberts.net/2009/06/bad-blurbs-good-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The economist Brad DeLong puts forth an interesting &#8220;parlor game&#8221; on his blog: write the worst blurb you can imagine for the best book you can think of. It&#8217;s an illuminating exercise, because it helps one realize a couple of things. One, that &#8220;literary&#8221; is really a perceptive filter, a sort of lighting effect that [...]


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		<title>John Updike: our impromptu tribute</title>
		<link>http://jasonroberts.net/2009/02/john-updike-our-impromptu-tribute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When word came that John Updike had passed away, I asked my friends over at The Rumpus if they were planning any sort of tribute to him. Their immediate response: What a great idea. Could you put it together? Um, okay. Why not? I dispatched the following email to some of the novelists I knew: [...]


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		<title>David Foster Wallace: mapless territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The text of my remarks on David Foster Wallace, delivered January 31 at the Koret Auditorium. This was part of the San Francisco Public Library&#8217;s Writers Remembered, an annual tribute to writers who passed away in the previous year.) David Foster Wallace didn&#8217;t just bring his own style, he brought his own relationship to words. [...]


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		<title>Reading: Alice Munro&#8217;s The Progress of Love , p. 86</title>
		<link>http://jasonroberts.net/2009/02/munro-p-86/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Ozick calls Alice Munro &#8220;our Chekhov&#8221;, and I couldn&#8217;t agree more. Not only am I amazed that she hasn&#8217;t won the Nobel Prize yet, I&#8217;m amazed that hordes of dazzled, appreciative readers haven&#8217;t gathered in the Ontario countryside, woven their own Nobel Prize out of roots and branches, and presented it to her door. [...]


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		<title>A book-inspired award</title>
		<link>http://jasonroberts.net/2009/02/a-book-inspired-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I was contacted by Mike May, who happens to be the subject of the Robert Kurzon&#8217;s recent book Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure and the Man who Dared to See. If you&#8217;re familiar with the book, you know that Mike was blinded at the age of three, but that [...]


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		<title>Reading: The Confessions of Max Tivoli , p. 114</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The fire spoke, chattering like a madman, and then quieted again in a helix of sparks. My friend, so still and copper-outlined in the dark, said something so softly that I cannot, even more than thirty years later, hear what it was.&#8221; This is a passage that displays at least three facets of Andy&#8217;s world-class chops&#8211;probably [...]


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