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		<title>Fiction Review: The Ask</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/03/17/fiction-review-the-ask/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam Lipsyte]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend once gave me a novel, saying, “You can read this in two days, but don’t.” This is much how a Sam Lipsyte book goes.
A champion of the bitter underachiever or slacker aesthetic, Lipsyte stays true to form in his latest, &#8220;The Ask,&#8221; giving us a pudgy, not quite employed Milo Burke as narrator. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Preview: Literary Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll/Metro</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/03/16/reading-preview-literary-rock-n-rollmetro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago Authors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aleksandar Hemon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie Jo Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia College's Story Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don De Grazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Shanahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcus Sakey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bread and Puppet Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED
You can always count on Columbia College&#8217;s Story Week to provide some against-the-grain programming—its annual &#8220;Literary Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8221; evening, traditionally held at Metro, is usually the highlight of the festival. (Though one could imagine Joyce Carol Oates, this year, would be tough to beat.) Tonight features three authors—&#8221;Love &#38; Obstacles&#8221; and &#8220;The Lazarus Project&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Events Preview: Columbia College&#8217;s Story Week</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/03/09/literary-events-preview-columbia-colleges-story-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lit Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Achy Obejas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandar Hemon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexis Pride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia College's Story Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Morrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Washington Library Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. Adams Oaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Jacobsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Meno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Nance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maggie Estep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcus Sakey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martyrs']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mort Castle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Ann McNair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Albers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Kogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Weller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Chercover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheffield's Beer Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie Kuehnert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED
The 2010 edition of Columbia College&#8217;s week-long festival kicks off Sunday and through the next seven days offers an array of readings and discussions with highly acclaimed authors, local and beyond.  At Martyrs&#8217; on Sunday night, Randy Albers, Kim Morris, Sam Weller and more read as part of &#8220;2nd Story.&#8221; On Monday, literary legend Joyce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: The Zine Scene</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/03/09/411-the-zine-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels/Cartoonists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lit Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Elizabeth Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Zine Fest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johalla Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Porcellino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Czerwinski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zines, often relegated to a tiny shelf in most bookstores like a footnote or a last-second addendum, are taking center stage this weekend as four Chicagoans put on the first ever Chicago Zine Fest. “We went to the Milwaukee Zine Fest and were surprised by how many Chicago people went up for that,” says co-organizer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Preview: John McNally/Book Cellar</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/03/02/reading-preview-john-mcnallybook-cellar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McNally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Weller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED
John McNally writes funny. He writes sharp. &#8220;Swift&#8221; is a term often used to describe his work. His breakthrough book, &#8220;The Book of Ralph,&#8221;  was a charming ode to youth in seventies-era Chicago. A few years later, with his short-story collection, &#8220;Ghosts of Chicago,&#8221; McNally injected life into Chicago&#8217;s famous, notorious and epic characters. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: Crime Lords</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/03/02/411-crime-lords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Publishers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Hillmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Class Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Goad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Whiteley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quimby's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Elliott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windy City Story Slam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Don&#8217;t self-censor,” Criminal Class Press editor-in-chief Kevin Whiteley warns. Appropriate, considering the fearless Jim Goad will be headlining the Criminal Class Press reading at Quimby&#8217;s this Friday. C.C.P. will be supporting its fourth issue, which features such writers as Goad, Stephen Elliott and Chicago&#8217;s own Bryan Murphy. Goad, author of “Shit Magnet” and “Red Neck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Kate Zambreno/Parlor Series</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/02/23/preview-kate-zambrenoparlor-series/</link>
		<comments>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/02/23/preview-kate-zambrenoparlor-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lit Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kate Zambreno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlon Brando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O Fallen Angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Peterson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lit.newcity.com/?p=783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED
A suburban housewife, a mother and grandmother, trapped in her own vision of stable Midwestern existence. Her estranged daughter, a victim to her own mind, who looks for compassion in faceless sex, who saves prescription meds to eventually kill herself. A mysterious street prophet who warns. Triptych: Mommy, Maggie, Malachi. Author and former Newcity staffer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Love of the Game: Billy Lombardo takes the field with his new novel</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/02/16/for-the-love-of-the-game-billy-lombardo-takes-the-field-with-his-new-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Billy Lombardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlton Fisk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Mill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to Hold a Woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenard Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overlook Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polyphony H.S.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuart Dybek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Breakfast Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Latin School of Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Man With Two Arms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Lynch
Billy Lombardo strolls into The Breakfast Club on Hubbard Street fifteen minutes late, having missed his stop as he took the train into the city from his home in Forest Park. He was writing, he says, finally making progress on something new, and he wasn’t paying attention. The author, though in his forties, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Preview: Patti Smith/Harold Washington Library Center</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/02/16/reading-preview-patti-smithharold-washington-library-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lit Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patti Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Mapplethorpe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED
Forty years from now, will artists write about this time as elegantly and poignantly as artists do now about the 1960s? Who&#8217;s to say what legends live in front of our eyes. Musician Patti Smith is a legend, of course, the type of musical icon who&#8217;s changed lives. Her new memoir, &#8220;Just Kids,&#8221; chronicles her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: You Are Not a Gadget</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/02/10/nonfiction-review-you-are-not-a-gadget/</link>
		<comments>http://lit.newcity.com/2010/02/10/nonfiction-review-you-are-not-a-gadget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atul Gawande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaron Lanier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard DeGrandpre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By John Freeman 
It&#8217;s the season for manifestos. Earlier this month, Atul Gawande published a refreshingly bare-bones argument for the use of a simple checklist in critical tasks. Later this month, David Shields will publish &#8220;Reality Hunger,&#8221; which argues why literature is at a crossroads.
Add to this political manifestos, rehashed manifestos and the manifestos that [...]]]></description>
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