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		<title>The Great Lover &#8211; Michael Cisco</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/05/29/the-great-lover-michael-cisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 21:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most significant problem I encountered with Michael Cisco’s newest book was that I kept having to explain to people that I wasn’t reading some kind of self-improvement sex guide for the amorously deviant.  I mean, it’s called The Great Lover, which, if it really were some variety of coital strategy guide, would be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1480&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Details &#8211; China Miéville</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/05/25/details-china-mieville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 21:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tomcatintheredroom.com/?p=1467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m still waiting on my copy of Railsea, so I’ve written something about one of China Miéville’s short stories, instead. Details is characteristic of Miéville’s smorgasbording oeuvre: it’s a real grab-bag of genre tropes and influences; psychological thriller–meets–locked room mystery-meets–Lovecraftian cosmic horror.  And while you may be justifiably concerned that this kind of genre alchemy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1467&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unclay &#8211; T. F. Powys</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/04/15/unclay-t-f-powys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, I find that modern (well, in this case early 20th Century – but let’s not split hairs) attempts to appropriate or re-introduce or bastardise (or whatever) the medieval notion of the moralising allegorical characterology vary from incredibly irritating to down-right offensive (I’m looking at you Philip Roth (has anyone here actually read Everyman? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1444&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dissection &#8211; Georg Heym</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/03/20/the-dissection-georg-heym/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/03/20/the-dissection-georg-heym/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Dissection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tomcatintheredroom.com/?p=1431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading lots of short stories. Here’s something I wrote about one of them: It’s what’s inside, that counts. The Dissection is thanatological prose poetry that subverts the expected praxis of autopsy, both in the non-scientific and almost lyrical timbre of its descriptions and in its metamorphoses of the blood and viscera that seeps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1431&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Very Hungry Caterpillar &#8211; Eric Carle</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/02/24/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-eric-carle/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/02/24/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-eric-carle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a phantasmagoric bodyshock horror story that focuses on the tenets of extreme gluttony and one creature’s psycho-compulsive desire to consume the world around him.  Taking cues from Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s conception of horror isn’t a hyperbolic focus on blood and viscera, nor is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1401&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Hand in Mine &#8211; Robert Aickman</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/02/19/cold-hand-in-mine-robert-aickman/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/02/19/cold-hand-in-mine-robert-aickman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it’s unfortunate that when met with the notion of ‘The Weird’ as genre, most people will kinda stare blankly or shrug their shoulders.  A few might be able to roll off the names of the more familiar and better-known progenitors: F. Marion Crawford, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft or T.F. Powys; a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1395&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Soviet Russia, Books Review You</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/02/03/in-soviet-russia-books-review-you/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/02/03/in-soviet-russia-books-review-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Herge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Spurred on by constant encouragement/recommendations(/nagging) from my friend Thom (all well meant, of course), I’ve recently ‘gotten into’ comics and graphic novels.  It’s taken me a while, sure, but this is mostly due to [misguided comment about comics no.1::] my latent fear of any book that so stringently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1374&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inherent Vice &#8211; Thomas Pynchon</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/01/28/inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/01/28/inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If anybody tries to tell you that Inherent Vice is “Pynchon-lite” or a good “way in” to his unforgivably dense and complex early books, don’t believe them.  It’s not that Inherent Vice isn’t light-hearted or readable or particularly insouciant, it’s just that: it’s not really Pynchon. I can’t recommend it as any kind of gateway [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1359&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to My First Love</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/01/19/letter-to-my-first-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay so this is cool. My friend Carly who works for the San Francisco Ballet (hey, don’t look at me like that &#8211; I have cultured friends!), is putting together a characteristically creative and somewhat avant-garde promotional campaign for the up-coming ballet Onegin.  It (the promotion) entails a tumblr feed composed entirely of love letters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1346&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Machine &#8211; Victor Lavalle</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/01/10/big-machine-victor-lavalle/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/01/10/big-machine-victor-lavalle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Venn diagram of the New Weird, Victor Lavalle’s Big Machine sits round about where the circles of Michael Cisco and Neil Gaiman overlap those of Thomas Ligotti, Haruki Murakami and even, maybe, Stephen King. Perhaps.  That’s not to say Lavalle doesn’t bring his own keg to the party (and New Weird is nothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1191&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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