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		<title>Zizek and Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most recent NLR has a piece by Zizek on the contemporary European financial crisis, in which he attributes to Kissinger the &#8220;make the economy scream&#8221; comment. I was unable to find any source which claims anyone other than Nixon made the remark noted by Richard Helms. Christopher Hitchens even mentions that Kissinger was relatively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=820</link>
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		<title>Mondale as Debater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am intermittently working my way through the archives of the London Review of Books and have now reached late 1984. An article by Alan Brinkley about the Mondale-Reagan presidential race mentioned one of their debates, and I remembered that I might have actually watched that when it happened. Thanks to the miracle of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=813</link>
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		<title>Inception (2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can be now be said about Inception? I have a serious interpretive problem with films of this type, where there are significant commercial considerations impeding upon what might be the narrative aspirations of the director, considerations absent from Shane Carruth’s Primer, for instance, or even one of the Bu&#241;uel films that some reviewer mentioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=811</link>
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		<title>Tracer Cookie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a discussion of Wallace&#8217;s &#8220;Mister Squishy,&#8221; I believe, a member of the wallace-l discussion list made a comment about how he didn&#8217;t seem to understand computer jargon very well, despite his penchant for deep research. I don&#8217;t know if I thought that was entirely fair at the time, but I would like to offer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=808</link>
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		<title>Pynchon in Poland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a neat piece on a Pynchon conference in Poland. The thesis of the paper the author presented sounds somewhat similar to some ideas I had about Lemuria in the book when I wrote about it a while ago. I&#8217;ve only been in one gathering of Pynchon specialists before, and they were nowhere near as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=806</link>
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		<title>Demolition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read Denis Johnson&#8217;s Shoppers tonight, a collection of two related plays that were written and performed in the early aughts. The first, Hellhound on My Trail was genuinely good on the page, though I wonder at how well it would translate to the stage in every particular. The other play, Shoppers Carried by An [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=803</link>
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		<title>A Review of Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keith Gessen’s preface to this book acknowledges a problem: that, while providing a clearly expressed overview of the financial crisis from a knowledgeable participant who seems to share some cultural characteristics with the interviewer and broader audience at n+1 (humanities major, thoughtful and analytic, likely Harvard graduate, doesn’t own a tv, etc.) and who also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=801</link>
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		<title>Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our fourth wedding anniversary: I started off living in Atlanta very near the Fernbank, then moved two miles or so east. By the time this picture was taken, Clancy and I were living in a rented house not very far at all from a northeasternish curve of the perimeter. It was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=799</link>
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		<title>Peter Straub, A Dark Matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Such promise. A guru, a fully tuned-in Aquarian, leads a pack of young cheeseheads past a riot into a meadow to perform a ritual summoning. As a result, one young lady becomes an esoteric Straussian without the eyestrain, another has her eyes strained, one becomes a poststructuralist against his will, an ambitious young man is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=798</link>
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		<title>Hilary Mantel&#8217;s Wolf Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was left very much wanting to know how Mantel intends to handle the final weeks of Cromwell’s life in the next book, which Joan Acocella’s review in the New Yorker, if I have this straight, mentions is coming. (Mantel apparently took more space than she anticipated originally.) The Duke of Norfolk comes across more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=794</link>
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