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><channel><title>Stark Take</title> <atom:link href="http://stephenstark.me/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://stephenstark.me</link> <description>literature you can live without because you do</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:54:43 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Thanks, Gruber, for Making My Morning</title><link>http://stephenstark.me/big-garbage-can-of-weirdness/thanks-gruber-for-making-my-morning/</link> <comments>http://stephenstark.me/big-garbage-can-of-weirdness/thanks-gruber-for-making-my-morning/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:54:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve, i.e., him</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Big Garbage Can of Weirdness]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=661</guid> <description><![CDATA[Come on down: http://www.penparentis.org/literary-salon-events.html &#160;Share now!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://stephenstark.me/books/reading-tomorrow-at-pen-parentis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>1981 Châteauneuf de Pape</title><link>http://stephenstark.me/big-garbage-can-of-weirdness/1981-chateauneuf-de-pape/</link> <comments>http://stephenstark.me/big-garbage-can-of-weirdness/1981-chateauneuf-de-pape/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:48:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve, i.e., him</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Big Garbage Can of Weirdness]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=670</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bought this bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape a heck of a long time ago and am wondering if anyone out there has any notion of whether a) it has any value, b) if it&#8217;s even drinkable, and c) what it &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=664</guid> <description><![CDATA[In honor of the really fun reading at KGB Bar, I&#8217;ve got a special promotion going today and tomorrow on Amazon. You can get Second Son for free. Give it a shot. If you don&#8217;t have a kindle, you can &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=652</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read it more than once that for David Foster Wallace, whose work I admire tremendously, and for Jonathan Franzen, whose work I also admire tremendously, fiction was/is (Franzen said in an elegy to Wallace) &#8220;&#8216;A way out of loneliness&#8217; &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=623</guid> <description><![CDATA[Small Press Reviews has this to say about Final Appearance: &#8220;A shark attack, a starlet in hiding, a mysterious black box. The opening pages of Stephen Stark’s The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door have all the makings &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=621</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reamde, Neal Stephenson&#8217;s newest novel, is, as many reviewers have noted, a doorstop of a thriller. That much is true. All through my reading, though, which took me way longer than many of his other novels, I kept thinking that &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=611</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got two readings happening in February, on Feb 5 at KGB Bar and on Valentine&#8217;s Day, Feb. 14, at Pen Parentis. Both are in New York. Save the date. &#160;Share now!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://stephenstark.me/philosophy/weirdness/newreadingsforfeb/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The greatest show you&#8217;ll never see</title><link>http://stephenstark.me/philosophy/weirdness/the-greatest-show-youll-never-see/</link> <comments>http://stephenstark.me/philosophy/weirdness/the-greatest-show-youll-never-see/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve, i.e., him</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Big Garbage Can of Weirdness]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=596</guid> <description><![CDATA[Name a standup comedian that hasn&#8217;t been on a sitcom, The Daily Show, or Saturday Night Live. Name one who has appeared on, say, Letterman, Late Night, etc., whom you hadn&#8217;t heard of before but made you laugh. Tough, isn&#8217;t &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://stephenstark.me/?p=593</guid> <description><![CDATA[In a recent interview with The Rumpus, Laura Miller of Salon (her work also appears in a lot of other places), was asked what she sees “as the major challenge facing book publishing today.” In response, she laid out a &#8230; <a
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