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	<link>http://www.davemadden.org</link>
	<description>≠ composer; = now, reviser.</description>
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		<title>Reality Confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two things:
I.
A couple weeks ago the Times Book Review complained that a book of nonfiction conflated two dates into one. This week, it reviews David Shields&#8217;s Reality Hunger, and has this to say, paraphrasing Shields:
After all, just because the novel is food for worms doesn’t mean that fiction has ceased. Only an artificial dualism would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/03/reality-confusion/</link>
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		<title>Writing Badly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight in class I had students write the worst fiction they could. It&#8217;s a common exercise, the idea being that it gives us a way to talk about what we value in creative writing and what we abhor. And the writing always ends up surprising and good in complicated ways. I wrote alongside my students, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/03/writing-badly/</link>
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		<title>maystephen&#8217;s photographs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
You&#8217;ve listened to his mixtapes, now look at his photographs. My pal Steve toys, oh, let&#8217;s say semiannually with an honest-to-goodness Web blog/journal of writing, and but until we get some commitment on that end, what luck that he&#8217;s consistent about updating his Tumblr photo blog.
They&#8217;re really good, right? What I like about Steve&#8217;s photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/03/maystephens-photographs/</link>
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		<title>Some Questions Asked to/about a Book I Need to Read Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John D&#8217;Agata writes books in and about nonfiction that get me very interested in and excited for the genre. After the first generation of &#8220;New Journalists&#8221; who just decided to get out and write great, engaging, personal, subjective nonfiction without dickering over the name of this genre, and then after their 2nd-gen acolytes who made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/02/some-questions-asked-toabout-a-book-i-need-to-read-soon/</link>
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		<title>My February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me know anything you may want to know about Chicago O&#8217;Hare Airport&#8217;s Terminal 2 because after visiting it eight times in under three weeks I think I know a good deal about it. There&#8217;s a McDonald&#8217;s at the terminal&#8217;s groin over there; a Chili&#8217;s Too where a bartender named George (pretty sure, who bears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/02/my-february/</link>
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		<title>Wayne Booth Has Something to Share with You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not chlamydia. Nor is it the secret mark he made on his keys over there in the glass bowl by the front door, the one that lets you know which are his. It&#8217;s this, from his essay, &#8220;Distance and Point of View&#8221;:
It is not surprising to hear practicing novelists report that they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/wayne-booth-has-something-to-share-with-you/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Give Me Children&#8221; – Palace (tab)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is I think the one song of the stellar and (for me, at least) seminal Arise, Therefore record that hasn&#8217;t been tabbed online. I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s 100% on (the song is piano heavy, which always makes transcription difficult), but it&#8217;s a start. Please revise/edit as needed.
Note: This is for a guitar tuned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/give-me-children-%e2%80%93-palace-tab/</link>
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		<title>Final sentence?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wrote what I think might be the last sentence of the taxidermy book, at least in this version I&#8217;m about to send to my editor:
&#8220;We are not animals, we are given them.&#8221;
It felt righter two minutes ago.
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		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/final-sentence/</link>
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		<title>A New Coinage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[weird-science
verb, trans.
1. to fashion an object out of thin air, or to improve the general quality of a pre-existing object, using the vague powers that have seemingly been placed within you by a pair of horny experimenting teens: I&#8217;m starving; it&#8217;d be great if someone could weird-science me a pizza &#124; Huh, this sweater must [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/a-new-coinage/</link>
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		<title>Being Part of the Thinking World, and Also the Loving One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I.
One of the effects of being on the academic job market as I&#8217;ve been since, oh, September, is that you stop thinking. You stop engaging in much else around you that&#8217;s not an academic job posting, or a certain wiki. Your loved ones suffer and your liked ones do. Your students. And but it&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davemadden.org/2010/01/being-part-of-the-thinking-world-and-also-the-loving-one/</link>
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