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	<description>Barrett Hathcock, author of The Portable Son</description>
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		<title>Heading home to Jackson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who came out to the book signing/reading at Burke&#8217;s two Thursdays ago. It was a stuffed house, and I left feeling equally stuffed with gratitude. There&#8217;s a nice little essay by Nicholson Baker about reading one&#8217;s work aloud and the always present prospect of becoming choked up at completely inappropriate moments. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2012/01/29/heading-home-to-jackson/</link>
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		<title>Dear Memphis, Dear Memphis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be at Burke&#8217;s Books in Memphis&#8211;in the heart of Cooper-Young for all you locals&#8211;this Thursday starting at 5:30 p.m. I&#8217;ll be there signing and mingling and doing a whole bunch of talking with my hands. I&#8217;ll also be reading a scooch from the book, beginning at 6 p.m. Do you want to attend but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2012/01/15/dear-memphis-dear-memphis/</link>
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		<title>All the Rage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence Geoff Dyer Picador, 2009 Dyer and his brand of blurrily personal nonfiction is much in the ether lately, or at least the certain subsection of slightly literary inclined internet ether I breath, for better and worse. But more than the chatter overhead, Dyer has been urged on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2012/01/01/all-the-rage/</link>
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		<title>The Portable Son comes out today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the day is finally here. My first book of short stories, The Portable Son, has been published by Aqueous Books and is now for sale. I have flipped the switch from someday forthcoming to recently published. The hard sell: The Portable Son is available at Amazon as paperback and Kindle, Barnes&#38;Noble.com, and directly from the publisher. It is also for sale at Burke&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/11/30/the-portable-son-comes-out-today/</link>
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		<title>The Portable Son Pre-Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happy to report that my upcoming story collection The Portable Son&#8211;about which I will increasingly make myself a nuisance&#8211;has recently received a starred review by Publishers Weekly. To read the review in its native web state, go here. But since it is so compact I&#8217;m just going to paste it all here: Peter Traxler [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/10/28/the-portable-son-pre-order/</link>
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		<title>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to report that Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Brother: Why Nicholson Baker Can&#8217;t Write About Sex, and Why Javier Marias Can, an ebook I have written with Scott Esposito, is now officially on the cyber shelves. It&#8217;s sort of like an electronic pamphlet, long and argumentative yet sprightly and topical, covering how two contemporary authors treat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/10/17/lady-chatterleys-brother/</link>
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		<title>Notes on Notes on Sontag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate Princeton University Press, 2009 &#160; In many ways this is the perfect book about Susan Sontag, because Phillip Lopate is so much her opposite—warm where she is cold, personal where she is stiff-armed, steely maned where he is bald, self-doubting where she is authoritarian in her judgment, discursive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/07/28/notes-on-notes-on-sontag/</link>
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		<title>Losing Faith with Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been mulling over the news that Philip Roth no longer reads fiction. In a profile in the Financial Times, there is the following exchange: As we talk, Roth is perfectly courteous, perfectly charming, perfectly defended. Half a century of celebrity, since the publication of Portnoy’s Complaint in 1969 brought him money and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/07/22/losing-faith-with-fiction/</link>
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		<title>The Heming Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize it&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of Hemingway&#8217;s death, but this is ridiculous: This is the most absurd misinterpretation of Hemingway&#8217;s life, much less his value as a &#8220;great writer,&#8221; and what&#8217;s worse is that I think this is how the broader U.S. culture &#8220;appreciates&#8221; Hemingway. (The previous winner in absurd Hemingway cultural appropriation&#8211;Thomasville&#8217;s Hemingway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/07/19/the-heming-way/</link>
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		<title>MFA = Mother of Failed Arguments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laura Miller wrote a nice piece in Salon not that long ago, capably outlining the recent flare up in the To MFA or Not To MFA debate, this time describing Mark McGurl&#8217;s latest rebuttal in the L.A. Review of Books to Elif Batuman&#8217;s takedown of his book The Program Era and MFA programs in particular. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barretthathcock.com/2011/07/11/mfa-mother-of-failed-arguments/</link>
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