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		<title>Inherent Vice &#8211; Thomas Pynchon</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/01/28/inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon/</link>
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		<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&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1359&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1346&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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		<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&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Flies &#8211; William Golding</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/11/07/lord-of-the-flies-william-golding-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello.  My blogging has fallen a little off schedule recently &#8211; it turns out that I can’t read as fast as I can write, and consuming enough novels to stay on-target with anything like a semi-regular posting plan is proving more of a challenge than I initially anticipated.  I don’t know how those one-book-review-every-day bloggers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1163&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kraken &#8211; China Miéville</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/09/22/kraken-china-mieville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah China Miéville, the Guardian reader’s acceptable face of Sci-fi; albeit shaven-headed and assortedly be-pierced.  Lots of readers, who would otherwise never touch Weird Fiction with the proverbial barge pole, devoured his 2009 existential detective thriller The City and The City on the back of a veritable slew of awards and unprecedented attention (for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1121&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kraken Wakes &#8211; John Wyndham</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/09/08/the-kraken-wakes-john-wyndham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In perpetuation of my 2011 China Miéville binge-fest, I’ve recently acquired his Cthulhu cult novel Kraken (review pending).  Before reading it, however, I thought it prudent that I at least nominally educate myself in the genre to which Kraken pays homage.  So I read The Kraken Wakes [1953] by John Wyndham first. It’s a sci-fi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1103&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bend Sinister &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/09/05/bend-sinister-vladimir-nabokov/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/09/05/bend-sinister-vladimir-nabokov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah Nabokov.  Verbally ebullient Nabokov. Na-Bo-Kov.  Did you know that he hand-wrote his novels on numbered blank postcards?  As friends of mine who’ve kindly put up with my eulogistic diatribes in praise of Nabokov’s brilliance will be aware, he’s one of my favourite writers, and perhaps my very favourite stylist.  But what’s that you ask?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1091&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Centauri Device &#8211; M. John Harrison</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/08/25/the-centauri-device-m-john-harrison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an austere 200 pages, The Centauri Device has destabilized my preconceptions of Space Opera.  I heretofore assumed that all Space Opera was self-defined as such by merit of its Homeric length as much as by any adherence to established themes or argument (admittedly I’ve been reading a lot of Alastair Reynolds).  But like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1070&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hamlet in Purgatory &#8211; Stephen Greenblatt</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/08/20/hamlet-in-purgatory-stephen-greenblatt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If ever there were a poster boy of literary criticism, Stephen Greenblatt would surely be him.  Renaissance Self Fashioning, his 1980 thesis on constructed identity, is about as close as critical theory has ever come to an international bestselling mega-hit; and his 2005 biography of Shakespeare Will in the World has already established itself as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1058&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sense of an Ending &#8211; Julian Barnes</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2011/08/18/the-sense-of-an-ending-julian-barnes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a realist novel about memory and loss (or is it remembrance and grief?), The Sense of an Ending has just been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.  It has that kind of middle-brow, middle-class, middle England vibe to it that elevates personal events (or, rather, tragedies) to a level beyond their actual significance, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&amp;blog=13941151&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=tomcatintheredroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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