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		<title>National Lampoon&#8217;s Lemmings: Dead in Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conceit of Lemmings is that we&#8217;re watching live footage of the Woodchuck Festival, Three Days of Peace, Love, and Death, where people have amassed on a farm in upstate New York to listen to music and kill themselves. It stars very young (and alive) versions of Christopher Guest, John Belushi, and Chevey [sic] Chase. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Used to Have a Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/06/i-used-to-have-a-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another one. It still exists. For a time, the most popular post was about Roger Scruton&#8217;s &#8220;A Carnivore&#8217;s Credo&#8221;, which you are welcome to Google. Now, this most popular post, by which I mean the post that is read based on the greatest number of Google searches, by which I mean the relevant thing on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Note on Narrative Mirroring, or: Learning from The Simpsons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Ruth Powers episode of The Simpsons. When she picks Marge up for their night out, Marge says Ruth looks &#8220;Nice,&#8221; and Ruth insists that nothing about this night is going to be nice. Then she pops a tape into the stereo: it&#8217;s Lesley Gore&#8217;s &#8220;Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows&#8221;. Maybe the nicest song ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/05/although-of-course-you-end-up-becoming-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 13:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[david lipsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[john michael higgins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davemadden.org/?p=650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And &#8230; if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader&#8217;s been aware of all the time.&#8221; David Foster Wallace says this early on in the road trip David Lipsky took with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning (Once Again) from Joan Didion</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/05/learning-once-again-from-joan-didion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s time now that graduation is over and my grades have been turned in to begin reading in earnest again, and I&#8217;ve done so, with Michael Martone&#8217;s Michael Martone (a collection of quasi-fictive/quasi-nonfictive contributor&#8217;s notes about which I take back everything I&#8217;ve said over the past week regarding the demand for factual purity in writing; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Ways of Looking at Falseness: The End</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/05/two-ways-of-looking-at-falseness-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe this is all why I like taxidermy so much. No one would ever mistake a mounted animal for a live one, no matter how intently the taxidermist tucks his eyelids and paints his nostrils. No matter how lifelike the pose. I mean, which—to borrow a phrase—is the authentic animal? This: Or this? From Magritte, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Ways of Looking at Falseness: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/04/two-ways-of-looking-at-falseness-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/04/two-ways-of-looking-at-falseness-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a fan of pro wrestling for a long time. Not the inspiredly named NES game pictured at right (about which I can only recall that The Amazon, part-snake, part-man, was unstoppable—at least when wielded by my friend Darrell), but the spectacle that&#8217;s now marketed as Sports Entertainment. I shouldn&#8217;t be a fan of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Ways of Looking at Falseness: A Series of Blog Posts in Defense of a Position</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/04/two-ways-of-looking-at-falseness-a-series-of-blog-posts-in-defense-of-a-position/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more than two ways to look at falseness. One of my favorite documentary films is The Cruise made in 1998 by Bennett Miller, who went on in 2005 to make Capote. The Cruise is made perpetually watchable by its perpetually listenable subject: Timothy &#8216;Speed&#8217; Levitch, who guides Grey Line Bus Tours of Manhattan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Creative Nonfiction</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/04/the-new-creative-nonfiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/04/the-new-creative-nonfiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of Creative Nonfiction (a magazine out of Pittsburgh; I used to walk past its Walnut Street offices in the days I lived with girls in Shadyside) is in a new magazine format—laid out, graphically rich, pull-quote-heavy, 8ish&#8221; x 11ish&#8221;—that is welcome and good. I think the days of serial publications looking like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value(s) of Books</title>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/the-values-of-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/the-values-of-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new book I want. Well, it&#8217;s two books, the two-volume Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. I like very much my Oxford American Writer&#8217;s Thesaurus, which has smart little editorials on words and their usage from Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Stephin Merritt, and other smart people whose opinions I don&#8217;t just [...]]]></description>
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