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		<title>Wallace&#8217;s Inchoate Scream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Los Angeles Review of Books posted a double feature on David Foster Wallace, I felt so moved I wrote them a letter. They published the letter on July 23rd, along with a letter from Sesshu Foster. You can read the letter here. Filed under: Literature, News, Reviews Tagged: analysis, book review, commentary, David [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=130&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 19:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, novelist David Foster Wallace was invited to give a commencement speech to the graduates of Kenyon College. Captivating, inquisitive, and in no way didactic, Wallace unveiled to them the oncoming drudgery of adult life and all its routines—certainly nothing an ambitious twenty-two year old wants to hear. But Wallace offered an alternative to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=121&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter Published in NY Times Paper Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased to hear that my letter to the editor in response to the New York Times&#8217; series of articles on literary criticism was chosen for publication in their Paper Cuts blog. You can read the letter here, or just view it below. To the Editors: This may sound dramatic, but when I first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=116&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consider the Lobster: Defining the Elusive Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our discussions of celebrity artists—be they authors, film directors, composers, fashion designers, or any of the other myriad creative pursuits—the word “genius” is oftentimes used indiscriminantly. The simple pair of words—“genius artist”—yields a horrifying 21 million results in a variety of search engines. The dictionary1 provides us with the following: “a person who is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=110&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men in the Off Hours: Three Things to Love about Anne Carson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This review originally appeared in Xenith. Like the majority of MacArthur fellows, Anne Carson went largely unnoticed until she received a half million dollars. Unlike the majority of MacArthur fellows, readers are starting to recognize her name. Along with Derek Walcott, Charles Simic, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich, Carson enjoys inclusion in a small group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=106&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before You Weep for the Good Old Days</title>
		<link>http://patricknathan.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/before-you-weep-for-the-good-old-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more perfect the artist the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. When confronted with aphoristic pearls like these from the middle of the 20th century it’s hard to keep going. We may ask ourselves in a fit of despondency, What happened to the literary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=96&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Most Influential Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted in two parts at Xenith.net. At a party last night I was informed of the “Ten Most Influential Books” meme that has been flitting around the internet. I asked myself if I could really put together a succinct top-ten list. I’ve had little difficulty in the past putting together my ten favorite books, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=82&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under Construction</title>
		<link>http://patricknathan.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/under-construction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am rebuilding this site. Soon I will have things to say. I hope. Posted in News<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patricknathan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3591162&amp;post=63&amp;subd=patricknathan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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