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		<title>deluge of the bankers</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2011/01/05/deluge-of-the-bankers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[historical the cash deluge each and every year more huge officials preach and claim to care emotions trite and tripe they share they harken to the mayflower they mention ellis island too they pose in patriotic power and fling around &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2011/01/05/deluge-of-the-bankers/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3528&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Not Do To Say [full article]</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/10/what-would-not-do-to-say-full-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT WOULD NOT DO TO SAY THE “CLEANSING” OF GEORGE ORWELL A Real Shove from Above In many ways, George Orwell’s greatest book is Homage to Catalonia, which documents his direct participation in the Spanish Revolution (civil war), a great &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/10/what-would-not-do-to-say-full-article/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3416&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hurt Locker: The Empire&#8217;s Best?</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/03/10/the-hurt-locker-the-empires-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Bady at The Valve calls 2010 Academy Award winning movie for best picture, The Hurt Locker, &#8220;a cinema of truthiness,&#8221; of a kind. In my view, the main truthiness (truthiness being a sort of refined Orwellianism) is that &#8220;The &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/03/10/the-hurt-locker-the-empires-best/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3356&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bolano and present and future of the novel continued</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/16/bolano-and-present-and-future-of-the-novel-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[xposted: Apart from local diversity, which is important or vital, I see far more similarities across European, American (North and South), African, and Asian novels than differences. (Though maybe I’ve read too selectively.) It seems there’s more variance within place &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/16/bolano-and-present-and-future-of-the-novel-continued/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3349&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright present and future of the novel = Bolano? Not so much</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/15/bright-present-and-future-of-the-novel-bolano-not-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from comments at The Valve: Have you read 2666? Compare your thoughts and feelings about it to an equally long novel. First, you may see more the mishmash of 2666. Second you may see what a wheel spinner it &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/15/bright-present-and-future-of-the-novel-bolano-not-so-much/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3344&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Oscars Are a Con by John Pilger</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/11/why-the-oscars-are-a-con-by-john-pilger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Znet: Why are so many films so bad? This year&#8217;s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America&#8217;s divine right to invade other societies, steal their history &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/11/why-the-oscars-are-a-con-by-john-pilger/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3341&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fiction and human rights</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/02/fiction-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Oatley at OnFiction: In a scathing article, Jerome Stolnitz (1991) argued that art has only short term effects. Greek drama is regarded as powerful but, says Stolnitz: “There is no evidence that Aristophanes shortened the Peloponnesian War by so &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/02/fiction-and-human-rights/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3338&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>topical fiction and criticism, new anthology</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/01/11/topical-fiction-and-criticism-new-anthology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What’s Lib Lit? – Library, map, lens, scalpel, compost, chisel, textbook, excavation: voices, images, wrestling, contradicting, confirming, the matter of resistant art and practise.” – Adrienne Rich AMZ BN<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3336&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lit Industry Limits</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/01/11/lit-industry-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where &#8216;Literature&#8217; Comes From&#8221; by Edmond Caldwell: In the larger literary venues (and on the more sycophantic lit-blogs) this phenomenon of corporate pre-determination of the “literary field” goes almost entirely unremarked. It amounts to “the repressed” of mainstream book-reviewing, as that &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/01/11/lit-industry-limits/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3334&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Simon interviewed by Jesse Pearson</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/12/22/david-simon-interviewed-by-jesse-pearson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[excerpts via Vice: Between seasons of a lot of hit shows, adjustments will be made that are clearly based on network notes about what’s perceived to be most popular with viewers. We never had that dynamic in our heads. What &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/12/22/david-simon-interviewed-by-jesse-pearson/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3330&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Law &amp; Order in Pennsylvania&#8221; by Walter M. Brasch</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/12/22/law-order-in-pennsylvania-by-walter-m-brasch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[via Counterpunch: Dick Wolf, who created &#8220;Law &#38; Order&#8221; and its two successful spin-offs, &#8220;Law &#38; Order: SVU&#8221; and &#8220;Law &#38; Order: Criminal Intent,&#8221; should probably consider establishing a branch office in Pennsylvania. It seems that whenever any of the &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/12/22/law-order-in-pennsylvania-by-walter-m-brasch/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3328&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freeing fiction from domestication</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/12/18/freeing-fiction-from-domestication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from &#8220;A Very Nigerian Literary Festival&#8221; by Sefi Atta: Unlike the students I’d encountered at Northwestern University, the students who attended my fiction workshop at the festival did not write about personal relationships.  Their stories were topical.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3326&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream: A Literary Quarterly</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/13/mainstream-a-literary-quarterly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Almazov, &#8220;The &#8216;Tendentious&#8217; in Literature&#8221; Mainstream magazine (1947): The question, then, is not whether a writer is, or is not, tendentious; but rather what are the tendencies he follows. The antagonists of tendentious art in modern literature are people &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/13/mainstream-a-literary-quarterly/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3318&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Complicity of the New Yorker</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/05/the-complicity-of-the-new-yorker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretending Not to See: Murder by Corporate State Design The Fort Hood shootings. As of this writing, 13 dead, 31 injured on the Texas military base. By coincidence, this week&#8217;s edition of the New Yorker magazine has an article by &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/05/the-complicity-of-the-new-yorker/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3305&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Crime Novel and Society</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/04/the-crime-novel-and-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The State of the Crime Novel&#8221; by Jason Pinter at Huffington Post. A thoughtful round-table as far as it goes, but how far does their notion of crime, and its revelations, go? &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3298&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jasmin Ramsey reviews The Hurt Locker</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/04/jasmin-ramsey-reviews-the-hurt-locker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great review of Iraq conquest film The Hurt Locker by Jasmin Ramsey at AlterNet: &#8220;Iraq Movie, &#8216;The Hurt Locker&#8217; Is Generating Oscar Buzz: But Does It Deserve It?&#8221; The film greatly hyped by the establishment is shown to be the &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/11/04/jasmin-ramsey-reviews-the-hurt-locker/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3296&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bollywood Gets Political,&#8221; by Noor Iqbal</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/28/bollywood-gets-political-by-noor-iqbal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Foreign Policy In Focus: &#8230; Over the last 10 years, there has been a noticeable shift in content and consciousness of Bollywood films. On the surface, it is still unthinkable to produce a Hindi film without any song, dance, &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/28/bollywood-gets-political-by-noor-iqbal/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3274&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Denning on “The Novelists’ International”</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/25/michael-denning-on-the-%e2%80%9cthe-novelists%e2%80%99-international%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Denning, “The Novelists’ International” Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004): In the middle of the age of three worlds (1945-1989), the novel looked dead, exhausted. In the capitalist First World, it was reduced to increasingly arid formalisms &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/25/michael-denning-on-the-%e2%80%9cthe-novelists%e2%80%99-international%e2%80%9d/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3267&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Syriana and the CIA</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/23/on-syriana-and-the-cia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Education of Bob Baer &#8211; Unlearning the CIA&#8221; by Christopher Ketcham, via Counterpunch: When [Bob Baer] left the Agency in 1998, he hunkered down and wrote about his time as a spy.  His first two books – a memoir, &#8230; <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/23/on-syriana-and-the-cia/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3264&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lit Crit That Matters</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2009/10/08/lit-crit-that-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As written by Shelley Ettinger &#8211; on Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&#038;blog=189314&#038;post=3256&#038;subd=apragmaticpolicy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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