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	<description>Occasional literary links, amusements, culture, politics, and rants</description>
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		<title>Agenda: more of the same, with Baldwin interlude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apart from the occasional Twitter flurry, I&#8217;m really only doing one thing in my free time these days (getting closer, thanks for asking). With a few exceptions.
Next Wednesday, September 15, I&#8217;ll ask Rosecrans Baldwin some questions following a reading from his smart, taut, very accomplished first novel, You Lost Me There, about a scientist whose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13371</link>
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		<title>Food and metaphor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spilling the beans, the apple of my eye, salad days: Lisa Bramen investigates the origins of food idioms. (Via.)
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13384</link>
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		<title>On my ex-boyfriend Mark Twain&#8217;s autobiography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I await my copy of Mark Twain&#8217;s autobiography with slightly more excitement than trepidation (see also). Meanwhile, I like the related site This is Mark Twain.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13380</link>
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		<title>Veteran of shortlists, on winning the Booker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hilary Mantel&#8217;s Telegraph essay on winning the 2009 Booker Prize is characteristically candid and insightful. (Via.)
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13374</link>
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		<title>Stoppard&#8217;s death fantasy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Stoppard, who&#8217;s struggling with a new play, contemplates death. He&#8217;d prefer being killed by a falling bookcase to dying at the height of sexual passion. Did I ever link to this 2007 interview?
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13330</link>
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		<title>Muriel Spark&#8217;s notes and ephemera and house in Rome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fascinating, given the way Muriel Spark so ruthlessly pared down her novels, that she chose to keep every scrap of paper for her archives. More ephemera: video of a 1971 interview, and Life&#8217;s Spark photos.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13337</link>
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		<title>Cameras are clocks for seeing: Dyer on Barthes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geoff Dyer contemplates Roland Barthes&#8217; Camera Obscura, on &#8220;photography against film.&#8221; The second half of Barthes&#8217; book, written not long after his mother&#8217;s death, focuses on a photo of her.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13312</link>
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		<title>Bennett story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Bennett has a new story, &#8220;The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson,&#8221; in the LRB. I need to reread his uncommonly delightful The Uncommon Reader. 
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13305</link>
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		<title>The Salter-Phelps correspondence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selected letters of James Salter and his good friend Robert Phelps appear in the current issue of Narrative. Also, Pia Z. Ehrhardt reads some of her work.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13301</link>
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		<title>On the outskirts: Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s many houses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This old white motherfucker and his wife rolls up. He’s like, &#8216;Young man, do you know where the Poe house is?&#8217;&#8221; The Wire and A.N. Devers on Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s Baltimore house.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13292</link>
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		<title>The manuscripts of Shirley Hazzard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Society Library features an exhibition of Shirley Hazzard&#8217;s (Transit of Venus) manuscripts, photographs, and more, through January 31.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13288</link>
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		<title>Apps for stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Narrative&#8217;s free app for the iPhone and iPad includes all back issues of the magazine (a couple of which include my writing). I also like to read Electric Lit this way. 
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13278</link>
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		<title>The King&#8217;s English, circa 1908</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[T]o correct a bad sentence satisfactorily is not always possible; it should never have existed, that is all that can be said.&#8221; &#8212; Fowler
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13220</link>
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		<title>On grief &#8212; and dying without finishing your book</title>
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Just about every time my father-in-law (above) and I talked on the phone, we began by filling each other in on whatever progress we&#8217;d made with the books we were writing.  I don&#8217;t remember exactly when he decided to start working on a study of Macbeth, but I remember his interest developing and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13221</link>
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		<title>Eugenides Q&amp;A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At FSG&#8217;s Work In Progress, Jeffrey Eugenides talks with Jonathan Galassi about the genesis of the &#8220;more tightly dramatized, less fanciful&#8221; novel he&#8217;s finishing up. 
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13192</link>
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		<title>Disabled in love and lust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emma Garman admires Jean-Christophe Valtat&#8217;s 03, calling the novella &#8220;Nabokovian in its outrageously solipsistic stylishness.&#8221; See also Valtat on the persistence of childhood.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13197</link>
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		<title>A very Seventies homage to J.M. Barrie</title>
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As you can see, I have the best in-laws. That&#8217;s Larry on the left, and Jane on the right, and though they divorced years ago &#8212; long before I met them &#8212; they&#8217;re both still this fun and campy. 
Right now I&#8217;m reading Old Mortality, a gift from Larry. He figured I would appreciate Sir [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13136</link>
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		<title>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads for Girls Write Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night I&#8217;ll be introducing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as she opens the last event of Girls Write Now&#8217;s Chapters series with a reading from her short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck. I&#8217;ve written about my admiration for her work many times;  since then, she&#8217;s won a MacArthur Fellowship and earned a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13162</link>
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		<title>Thrilling finale of my Culture Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I forgot to link to the second installment of my Paris Review Daily Culture Diary. 
It&#8217;s not any sexier than the first, I&#8217;m afraid, but if you&#8217;re craving more usage pedantry, solo drinking tips, or line-editing blow-by-blows, you won&#8217;t want to let this one pass you by. 
Here&#8217;s one of the mouse-over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13109</link>
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		<title>Why is Christina Stead exiled from the canon?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Franzen says &#8220;there isn’t a more hilarious narcissist in all of literature&#8221; than Sam Pollit of  The Man Who Loved Children, which my friend Robb Forman Dew has been urging on me.
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		<link>http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=13102</link>
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