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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Death</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/death/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Shameless Oscar Bait</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23195</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23195#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:09:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerry Maguire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Love Story]]></category> <category><![CDATA[melodrama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscar bait]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rain Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Titanic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Hanks]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23195</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Oscar bait works on you, then you'll treasure the film all your life and hate anyone who speaks a word against it. If not, you will enjoy bitter self-satisfaction every chance you have to snipe at it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23195/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>True Blood Recap: Season 4 Bites Deep (But Doesn&#8217;t Suck)</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19926</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19926#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:54:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Phobias]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alan Ball]]></category> <category><![CDATA[alexander skarsgard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anna Paquin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[season finale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sookie Stackhouse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Moyer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[television drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[True Blood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twin Peaks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19926</guid> <description><![CDATA[For those who have not been scared off by now, I think we could all use a stiff drink before tuning in next summer for Season 5. Which I know I will. Season 4 had a few too many stops, starts, and jerky turns, but <em>True Blood</em> seized its bloodthirsty mojo back at the finish line.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19926/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez</title><link>http://calitreview.com/9246</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/9246#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:46:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alix McKenna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alice Leora Briggs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art contemporary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Bowden]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9246</guid> <description><![CDATA[While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not often seen in contemporary art. Its visual strength and documentary quality compels you to keep looking and inspires you to learn more about the tragic situation that she chronicles.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9246/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5245</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5245#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5245</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to the shape of the brain within, which in turn expresses in physical form one’s innate moral and intellectual faculties (crudely, that by feeling the shape of a person’s head you could tell whether he or she had great intellectual or creative powers, or was more likely a criminal) — had a brief but rich heyday. It influenced the thought and writings of the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and especially Walt Whitman, as well as scientists and physicians of the time.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5245/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2215</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2215#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:07:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Julian Barnes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nothing to Be Frightened Of]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2215</guid> <description><![CDATA["For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what life is about; unless you know and feel that the days of wine and roses are limited, that the wine will madeirize and the roses turn brown in their stinking water before all are thrown out forever—including the jug—there is no context to such pleasures and interests as come your way on the road to the grave."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2215/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Deaf Sentence by David Lodge</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1312</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1312#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:32:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1312</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent cacchination encountered everywhere in Beckett’s writing — which characterizes our present lot, with its extended, often forcibly prolonged, old age. Lodge’s transparent prose plays out in a sophisticated informal, everyday voice; his is artful writing that succeeds in that most difficult literary genre, Comedy.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1312/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mark Harris Discusses A &#8220;Natural Way of Burial&#8221;</title><link>http://calitreview.com/197</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/197#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:51:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[burials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/06/05/mark-harris-discusses-a-natural-way-of-burial/</guid> <description><![CDATA["Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as a de facto landfill of hazardous wastes and non-biodegradable materials."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/197/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Denial of Death by Ernest Becker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/116</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/116#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:37:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denial of Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ernest Becker]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/denial-of-death-by-ernest-becker/</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The same creature that names himself, imagines, explores and speculates is in the end, food for insects.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/116/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>An Interview With Author Mary Roach</title><link>http://calitreview.com/79</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/79#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category> <guid
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