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		<title>Frederick Burr Opper&#8217;s Happy Hooligan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was only ever trying to help, never asking for favors, loved by children, and here was a society intent on beating him down. The line between comedy and tragedy is a fine one, and Hooligan’s lines were pretty fine. ]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Matthew Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike perspective who has a penchant for endangered animals, attempts to free a genetically modified dog named Buck who might or might not be recreating Boris Spassky’s game against Anatoly Karpov during the 1973 Soviet Chess Championship. That’s before Jonathan discovers women cryogenically frozen in yogurt (would that be yogurgenically frozen?) in a basement. It’s the acidophilus in the yogurt that makes things work, apparently—using the type of wink, wink logic that would make slavish devotees to realism queasy.]]></description>
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		<title>Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John G. Rodwan, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield it than like a hammer bludgeoning readers. Imagining a more plausible premise also would have helped.]]></description>
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		<title>The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle rhythm. And of course, there is that dry wit. Bennett has a genius for the sardonic one-liner, his timing is immaculate.]]></description>
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		<title>Noogie&#8217;s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/262</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine in Fast Eddie’s Drug Hut by shouting ‘bang’. Noogie drops four thousand dollars in twenties all over the floor, screams at the kid and then gathers the notes up. It is only when he has loaded them all into the ATM that he finds a stray twenty under his shoe. It is then that the idea for the ‘perfect slow-motion heist’ occurs to him.]]></description>
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		<title>Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is delicious, authentic, accurate and brilliantly realised. Ferris’s office is one of pranks and games; sushi rolls find their way behind people’s bookshelves, things go missing from desks, and chairs are mysteriously swapped. There are the customary shifts and swings of popularity and power; endless arguments about who deserves to go, and who deserves to stay; and regular colloquies about some of the more unusual behaviour of the staff. But Ferris’s novel is as much about the way we act when thrown together with strangers, as it is office life.]]></description>
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