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		<title>Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Murdoch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is not a very nice person but he is fun – Nabokov describing the character of Pnin in a letter to his editor at The New Yorker Readers of my third novel, The More Things Change, who at the current moment in time comprise a not entirely significant two, my current wife and my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1354&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash Fiction edited by Nicole Monaghan</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/05/10/stripped-edited-by-nicole-monaghan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Holdefer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premise here is interesting: an anthology of flash fiction with the bylines removed so that the reader can’t know the identity of the author. According to Nicole Monaghan, editor of this collection, the purpose is to question a reader’s assumptions about gender. As an experiment, Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash Fiction (PS Books, 102 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1345&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Humbling by Philip Roth</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/05/06/the-humbling-by-philip-roth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 11:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria N. Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You’ll like it. No, I’d prefer you to suck me off,” he said. “While I wear my cock,” she said. “Yes.” “While I wear my big thick green cock.” “That’s what I want.” “While I wear my big green cock and you play with my tits.” “That sounds right.” “And after I suck you off,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1312&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frog City Updike by Arthur Graham</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 21:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frog City Updike never would&#8217;ve been without Brautigan&#8217;s Trout Fishing in America, the book that showed me just how loose I could get with form. &#8212; Arthur Graham, Big Al&#8217;s Books and Pals One of the words I use too often in reviews is &#8220;interesting,&#8221; but I never really make it clear whether a particular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1296&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fate of Pryde by Mary E. Martin</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/03/31/the-fate-of-pryde-by-mary-e-martin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Pryde is an enigmatic man. A generous benefactor and patron of the arts, he commissions artist Alexander Wainwright to do a series of stained glass windows in his French castle. Despite the Pryde&#8217;s obvious philanthropy, and the way in which this new project excites Wainwright&#8217;s creative sensibilities, Wainwright senses that something is very wrong [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1285&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial by Arthur Graham</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/03/17/editorial-by-arthur-graham-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my editorial of Arthur Graham’s Editorial (Bizarro Press Edition,  149 pages). The following (edited) definitions of editorial are from Dictionary.com: noun &#8212; an article presenting the opinion of the editor. Whoever the editor is–the unnamed narrator, a young orphan who remembers “days of reading and masturbating in my room” but doesn’t remember, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1263&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/03/02/all-about-h-hatterr-by-g-v-desani/</link>
		<comments>http://dactylreview.com/2012/03/02/all-about-h-hatterr-by-g-v-desani/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>various contributors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning!! Warning!! Better heed those first warnings, and all those !!!!! This – fellers! femmes! &#8212; this book – is mad. Like a hatter? Ostensibly an “autobiographical,” All About H. Hatterr, by Govinas Vishnoodas Desani (New York Review Books, 318 pages) was first published in 1948. Desani explains, …Though I was attending a world war, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1246&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/02/05/a-history-of-the-world-in-10-12-chapters-by-julian-barnes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>various contributors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God’s all-time bestseller, The Book, might be described (I wish to offend no one) as metafiction; it was written, divinely, by its main character, Who appears in various forms, at crucial cliff-hanger moments, as Himself. Unfortunately, so the story goes, God’s sixth-day creation, us &#8212; or more accurately our ancestors &#8212; made a muddle of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1221&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alien Autopsy: Stories by Pedro Ponce</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2012/02/02/alien-autopsy-stories-by-pedro-ponce-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria N. Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pedro Ponce offers eighteen very short stories in this slender volume (Cow Heavy Books, 55 pages). Within the brief space Ponce delegates for himself not much can happen, but these vignettes do manage to develop vigorous fabula-like themes. In each short piece, a subject is opened, then skillfully closed. In &#8220;Changeling,&#8221; a man late for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1200&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak</title>
		<link>http://dactylreview.com/2011/12/05/the-sojourn-by-andrew-krivak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Holdefer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will, unfortunately, always be a need for books about war, and this need takes many forms. In The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press, 191 pages), Andrew Krivak successfully defends the parish of the novel. Although the harsh imperatives of history require much sifting of facts, places and victims—synthesis and hindsight are essential, as part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dactylreview.com&#038;blog=12888308&#038;post=1176&#038;subd=dactylreview&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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