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		<title>My Review of Andrew Zornoza&#8217;s Where I Stay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review of Andrew Zornoza&#8217;s Where I Stay appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Rain Taxi Review of Books. Check out the table of contents and buy an issue HERE.
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		<title>My Review of Michael Kimball’s The Way the Family Got Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kimball’s The Way the Family Got Away is a wonderful book, one I fear has fallen through the cracks. It came out about a decade ago, and I thought it was time to give it some more shine. Here’s an excerpt from my review:
As readers, we often hope that the lover will return, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=642&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Leni Zumas’s Farewell Navigator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review &#8220;A Little Bone of Crazy, or This is Your Brain On Snowbroth: Leni Zumas’s Farewell Navigator&#8221; is at Fiction Writers Review. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
Most of these stories are compact studies of paralysis, in the tradition of Beckett and Ionesco. These ciphers don’t so much act or react, but are usually quietly or loudly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=636&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Reader’s Log(orrhea)&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please check out the first installment of my monthly column, &#8220;A Reader’s Log(orrhea),&#8221; at The Nervous Breakdown. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
Deciding what to read is, for me, always marked by a certain degree of anxiety. I feel pulled back by the past, from all those classics that inspired countless other worthy works, but also simultaneously pushed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=627&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chapbook Review: Winter 2010</title>
		<link>http://johnmadera.com/2010/03/02/the-chapbook-review-winter-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Winter 2010 issue of The Chapbook Review is now live! It features interviews with Aaron Burch, Mike Heppner, and Catherine Kasper by, respectively, J.A. Tyler, Josh Maday, and John Dermot Woods, and reviews by Matt DeBenedictis, Anne C. Fowler, Steven Karl, Janey Smith, and J.A. Tyler.
You can read my introduction HERE, and find the current issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=625&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Books &#8211; Review-a-Day &#8211; American Reader #12: On the Winding Stair by Joanna Howard, reviewed by John Madera</title>
		<link>http://johnmadera.com/2010/02/25/powells-books-review-a-day-american-reader-12-on-the-winding-stair-by-joanna-howard-reviewed-by-the-brooklyn-rail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review of  Joanna Howard&#8217;s On the Winding Stair has been republished at Powell&#8217;s Books &#8211; Review-a-Day &#8211; American Reader #12. Hooray!
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		<title>Review of Brian Evenson&#8217;s Baby Leg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an excerpt of my review of Evenson&#8217;s latest book:
Brian Evenson’s work carefully navigates abundant, layered, cumulative sentences, sentences filled with recursive explorations, dynamic repetitions, and playful symmetries, with a kind of Spartan restraint on description and exposition, what Samuel Delany describes as “the stark economy of the tuned ear, the fixed eye.” There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=610&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of John Haskell&#8217;s Out of My Skin</title>
		<link>http://johnmadera.com/2010/02/01/review-of-john-haskells-out-of-my-skin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out my review of John Haskell&#8217;s Out of My Skin, one of the few books from last year I reviewed from the so-called major presses. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
Out of My Skin is unquestionably brimming with metaphysical, epistemological, and psychological asides and glosses. It also overflows with humor of the deadpan, sardonic variety. It’s also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=601&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Joseph Young&#8217;s Easter Rabbit</title>
		<link>http://johnmadera.com/2010/02/01/review-of-joseph-youngs-easter-rabbit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a bit about how disposable most flash fictions are. While the percentage of slop to gold is probably no greater than that found in any other literary form, the sheer volume of short shorts, microfictions, or whatever you want to call them, and the ease in which some people and magazines churn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=593&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Mary Caponegro&#8217;s All Fall Down</title>
		<link>http://johnmadera.com/2010/02/01/review-of-mary-caponegros-all-fall-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easily one of last year&#8217;s finest books, Mary Caponegro&#8217;s All Fall Down is a powerful display of a virtuoso stylist at the top of her form. Here&#8217;s an excerpt of my review:
With a precise eye, sympathetic ear, and a commanding, sprawling, and, at times, overwhelming but no less pleasurable voice, Mary Caponegro, in her new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnmadera.com&blog=8021283&post=588&subd=johnmadera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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