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		<title>Recent ranting, raving, and reviewing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We (by which I mean &#8220;I&#8221;) haven&#8217;t been too active around here recently, thanks to one thing or another, but a couple of things have happened: I. I ranted and raved about Canada Reads in the new issue of Canadian Notes &#38; Queries, which you should rush out and buy immediately: It is difficult to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=898&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A metareview</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#8217;Hearn, Hubert. &#8220;The Little Shadows, by Marina Endicott.&#8221; The Winnipeg Review, Sept 16, 2011. It is often argued, and always by critics, that we cannot have great literature without great criticism. If this is true, then it follows that we cannot have great criticism unless we have great criticism of that criticism. Thus, this review [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=893&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Further rabid snarling concerning a certain literary award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me only recently that I may be guilty of holding back my views on the Giller Prize&#8217;s unaccountably short-sighted and tone deaf decision to allow the public to vote one title onto their longlist via the moronic &#8220;Reader&#8217;s Choice&#8221; poll organized by their &#8220;broadcast partner,&#8221; CBC Books, an organization that appears to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=891&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How not to write</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I pulled Leon Rooke&#8217;s The Last Shot off my shelf, and noticed little red page flags sticking out of it. Most curious. How did those get there? I must have stuck them there, for some reason. So I promptly investigated them to see if I could figure out why. This was pretty easy. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=885&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless theft of some better ideas than mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently hit on a bunch of things written or said by other people, which speak to my notion that fiction has to be engaged with the world. Being too lazy to write my own defence of that notion, I&#8217;m just going to quote those things and pretend I&#8217;ve published a manifesto. First, from Benjamin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=883&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet more ado about prizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just saying. Reading and discussing certain novels, there was an unavoidable sense of arbitrariness, a sense that these books probably would not be much read had they not won the Booker, and that that might not necessarily have been an unsustainable loss to the literary world. From The Millions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=879&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Much ado about prizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the CBC bought the broadcast rights to the Giller Prize, I joked that we would soon see the Giller decided by an online vote. It was one of those jokes one hesitates to make: too snide, uncalled for, adding insult to earlier insult without just cause. Yes, one hesitates &#8212; unless, of course, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=856&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Ford and the Writing Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 00:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in Cincinnati tonight, having spent the week in Colorado Springs, very much on the road again. All next week I&#8217;ll be here in Cincinnati, which means I&#8217;ll finally learn to spell it, then home for a week, then Toronto for a week, then Halifax and Edmonton to round out the month. The first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=871&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water&#8230;. Reading Combat Camera, A.J. Somerset’s brave and gritty debut novel, one discerns here and there evidence of influence from Nathanael West’s classic Miss Lonelyhearts: the disillusioned and powerless protagonist trapped in a job that threatens to destroy his soul; the amoral boss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=869&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All things must pass</title>
		<link>http://ajsomerset.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/all-things-must-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stan C. Reade Photo here in London has gone out of business. I spent many hours there, and many dollars also. But the film business isn&#8217;t what it used to be, people buy their cameras at Future Shop, and e-Bay killed the used market and its economics of scarcity. Let me say to Progress the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajsomerset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10188379&amp;post=864&amp;subd=ajsomerset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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