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            <title><![CDATA[Fiction Wrestles With Global Terrorism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim applauds Lorraine Adams' stellar new novel for being even better than nonfiction at capturing our messy world of politics, espionage, and journalism. Plus: View his picks of other great novels based on current events.
There is the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Some Memoirs Are Better As Fiction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Two new memoirs raise a perennial problem-sometimes fiction is truer and more powerful than any memoir. Taylor Antrim wonders if they wouldn't just be better as novels.
The Great Age of Memoir continues apace. Happy by Alex Lemon and The Ticking Is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Great Reads for the Holidays]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the midst of all the holiday craziness, are you looking for a good book to curl up with? Taylor Antrim recommends three perfect reads that you might have missed this year.
I go for big, long immersive novels as much as the next person, but not over...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Velvet Underground Reunites!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a rare public appearance, Lou Reed and other members of the iconic band gathered to talk about Andy Warhol and why they never got respect. Taylor Antrim on their reunion. Plus, a gallery of rare photos of the band.
Lou Reed is one of rock 'n'...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[3 Great Reads for Thanksgiving]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Looking for some appropriate post-tryptophan entertainment? Novelist Taylor Antrim recommends three great books that readers might have missed this fall. 
Not to be a scold, but is it really such a good idea to sack out in front of the TV all...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Pop Culture Savant]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim on why Chuck Klosterman's latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, shows him as pop-culture obsessed as always and wonders if his shtick still works. 
Chuck Klosterman, pop-culture savant, patron saint of stoner intellectuals, Buddha of New...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Freestyle Fatherhood]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim speaks with Simon Carr about his moving memoir, The Boys Are Back, and how he improvised raising his two sons after his wife died.
As far as I'm concerned the American father became self-aware on a Saturday in the summer of 1986-the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gene Hackman's War]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Retired from acting, Gene Hackman has scripted a second act for himself as a novelist. Taylor Antrim speaks to the Hollywood legend about Obama, Hemingway, and doing pushups on set.
You know him as Popeye Doyle, Lex Luthor, and Royal Tenenbaum, but...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quick Reads for the Asylum]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Following his psycho-thriller debut with a collection of stories about extreme anxiety and paranoia, James Lasdun may single-handedly save British short fiction from an untimely demise.
Must-read collections from Wells Tower, Robert Boswell, Antonya...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Summer of Our White Male Discontent]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The American white male may be in decline, says Taylor Antrim, but judging from three new books, midlife malaise is still fodder for good fiction. Plus, VIEW OUR GALLERY of Asterios Polyp. 
Have you heard? The American white male is in decline!...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Vile Love Triangle]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In Nick Laird's sharp new novel, Glover's Mistake, not one of the main characters would make good dinner company. But he presents a vision of human envy and contempt that's hard to shake.
Character likeability is one of the more dubious standards by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Plenty of Time 'Til Doomsday]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Ron Currie, Jr.'s rambunctious new Everything Matters! is a winning entry in a new genre: the pre-apocalyptic novel.
By now, we're all well acquainted with the literary tropes of the post-apocalyptic novel. From The Stand to On the Beach to The Road,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Great New York Novel]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With echoes of Wolfe, Doctorow, and DeLillo, Colum McCann's mesmerizing Let the Great World Spin is a prophetic portrait of New York City in the summer of 1974. 
Colum McCann's commanding, polyphonic new novel, Let the Great World Spin, may be set 35...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Squid and the Whale of a Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ With his ambitious fourth novel about a family of oddball Chicago scientists, Joe Meno swings for the fences in The Great Perhaps. It's a touching, 400-page tale of Big Themes-with Nazi secrets, a lesbian crush, and a don't-worry-be-happy ending....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ghost of Biennales Past]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed British author Geoff Dyer's witty new novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is set at the Biennale. The Daily Beast's Taylor Antrim talked to Dyer about his favorite Biennale memories, how to best view the art show, and where to stay, eat,...]]></description>
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