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		<title>Queen of the Hatchet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's great to see there is now an award for the Best Hatchet Job of the Year when it comes to book reviewing. Reading a good literary demolition job is often hugely enjoyable experience, even if it's just catty score settling (ie. Julie Burchill's amusing assault on Nick Kent's NME memoir). Just occasionally though, it can reach a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Year 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here they go, as they went. The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler Selected English Essays - Jonathan Swift, William Hazlitt, Thomas de Quincey, Thomas Carlyle and others Nazi Literature in the Americas – Roberto Bolano The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard Black Mass – John Gray Steppenwolf – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas &#8211; two views</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week's Private Eye  Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy conversing on the subject of Christmas in the style of their recent book of exchanges. Or rather, Craig Brown's imagining of this. Private Eye doesn't do much online, so here is "Houellebecq" on Santa transcribed by dilligent me: "Christmas, my dear Bernard-Henri, is, as we know, loathsome, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas with Orson Welles, Dorothy Parker, Noam Chomsky, Ayn Rand and Mr Spock&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a few years old now but this look at the supposed Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of all Time on the Whatever website is very funny indeed.  Ayn Rand's Christmas is particularly effective. "In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miller &#8211; lightweight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I see Frank Miller has aired his erudite views on the Occupy protestors, namely that they are “louts, thieves, rapists”, and,  in a quieter moment, as  “pond scum”. I would be interested to see the statistics  on how many acts of sexual violence have been perpetrated in the name of bringing regulation to a rogue banking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shelagh take a bow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With apologies for the obvious post title : RIP to Shelagh Delaney. A true artistic original, the first to get a female working-class perspective onto the British stage,  A Taste of Honey remains a beautiful work. Inspiring Morrissey was a bit of a bonus too.  More here. Postscript: Pointed piece by Belinda Webb in The Guardian bemoaning the lack of, yet need for, an heir to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark E Smith, a Stalinesque embrace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's new Fall album time - no 29: Ersatz GB.  Here's my review - it's good. Me and other Fall fans will like it, most people won't. A marginally less flippant observation: I'd say the last few albums (post 2007)  are less collections of songs; more skewed symphonies. Of these, last year's  Our Future, Your Clutter is still the most outstanding to me, but give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Reekie &#8211; Death Of A Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I read the very fine  Children of Albion Rovers, a compendium of writing by young Scottish authors, compiled by Rebel Inc’s Kevin Williamson in 1996, and featuring earlier work by a certain  up-and- coming Irvine Welsh. One of the stories was by Paul Reekie. "Submission" was an enjoyably scrappy and digressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the Book Swaps stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian's National Book Swap seemed like a lovely idea. The wet-lib rag urged its readers to leave much used and much loved books in random public places with a note urging  a stranger to pick them up so that they might find the same inspiration enjoyment . They in turn could leave their own favoured tome in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return Of Half Man Half Biscuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Half Man Half Biscuit are back, with a new album - 90 Bisodol (Crimond).  It's great of course - that much should be obvious. Less expected is that a brilliant article has been written giving this marvelous band the respect they so completely deserve. All fans should read Taylor Parkes's fabulous piece in the Quietus.   My own tribute to the [...]]]></description>
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