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		<title>Poetry Blogs You Should Be Reading</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/poetry-blogs-you-should-be-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my long blogging absence I&#8217;ve negleted to highlight two great blogs about poetry and the process of writing poetry:
1. First Book Interviews: Keith Montesano interviews Rauan Klassnik in his 21st interview for the series (while in the midst of getting his own first book published).  Choice excerpt:
Yes there’s certainly a lot of violence in Holy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=404&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Globalization from the Poets</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/saving-globalization-from-the-poets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Schmall has a post over at HTML Giant that argues that poetry&#8217;s larger cultural irrelevance makes it a useful site of resistance against globalization.  Schmall&#8217;s description of globalization (and capitalism in general) however, is mostly caricature bolstered by some hand-waving and talk about the power of imagination.  The central mistake is, I think, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=401&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Writing Programs</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/in-defense-of-writing-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, this isn&#8217;t technically a defense of writing programs; I don&#8217;t think writing programs need defending*.  Rather, it&#8217;s a quick look at what I believe to be some of the unexamined (or at least not widely cited) benefits of writing programs.  In a much discussed review essay of Mark McGurl&#8217;s The Program Era, Louis Menand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=395&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Question About Literature and Political Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/a-question-about-literature-and-political-philosophy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And since people are thinking about literature I&#8217;ll take this opportunity to ask a question I&#8217;ve been considering recently: Why doesn&#8217;t more literary criticism make mention of rights-based liberalism?  Not that I expect a lot of lit professors to approvingly cite Rawls, but he doesn&#8217;t even get name checked.  This might seem like a silly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=387&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Thoughts On Fiction</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/brief-thoughts-on-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a lot to say in response to Matt Zeitlin&#8217;s post on fiction and James Woods&#8217; disdain for the &#8220;hysterical realism&#8221; of Rushdie, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, et al.  I read more poetry than I do fiction, so I&#8217;d gladly defer to the opinions of people who have read many of these authors and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=383&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Perils of the Low Information Voter</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-perils-of-the-low-information-voter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bailout plan fails in the House. And hey, the Dow closes in -700 territory. So that&#8217;s exciting.  
On the political side, I can understand the behavior of representatives who claim to be receiving calls 100:1 against the bailout. They&#8217;re worried about protecting their seats and watching as their vote is painted as a taxpayer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=380&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live-Blogging the Debate: The Blogs to Read</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/live-blogging-the-debate-the-blogs-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paxamericana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be busy at one of the last Fall For the Book readings tonight so I won&#8217;t be following the debate as closely as I&#8217;d like.  You, however, should follow along with these fine bloggers who will be giving you some of the best foreign policy and political commentary as they live-blog the event:

Ned Resnikoff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=378&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama&#8217;s Economic Argument Should Look Like: The Great Risk Shift</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/an-economic-argument-the-great-risk-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that seems to be missing from the Obama campaign&#8217;s economic rhetoric is a coherent narrative under which he can group his policy proposals .  Citing deregulation, the influence of lobbyists (with strong ties to the Republican party and John McCain&#8217;s campaign), and tax cuts for oil companies is a scatter-shot of political sins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=376&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sentences That Worry Me</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/sentences-that-worry-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps if I had more experience with financial markets, I wouldn&#8217;t be as concerned, but as it stands this sort of thing doesn&#8217;t sound good:
$$$ With Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns gone, everyone is asking whether Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs will survive as independent investment banks.
And these from Felix Salmon:
If you&#8217;re looking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=373&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Believe in Dylan Matthews</title>
		<link>http://paxamericana.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/i-believe-in-dylan-matthews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paxamericana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got to support a guy who is fake-running to be a UC representative at Harvard and references Thomas Carlyle as part of his biography:
In fact, if Thomas Carlyle were to have met Dylan, he would have hanged himself in despair at the impossibility of achieving such greatness. And Thomas Carlyle was a total baller.
Walt Whitman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paxamericana.wordpress.com&blog=84983&post=371&subd=paxamericana&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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