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	<title>The Newsstand Sophisticate</title>
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	<description>The Weblog of Julien Noah Devereux</description>
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		<title>Adding to the Pile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Millions tells us of interesting books to be published this upcoming year. It&#8217;s a good list, and contains many titles I hope to read. At my current rate, however, I feel I won&#8217;t get to many of them until the next decade. This week I started reading a book (The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Year&#8217;s Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been interesting seeing stories pop up about projects funded by the 2009 Recovery Act, the so-called &#8220;stimulus package.&#8221; It&#8217;s funded such an odd assortment of things, as I suppose it was designed to do. I was pleasantly surprised to come across this article, detailing a plan to renovate Sausalito, California&#8217;s Bay Model, a hydraulic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2010/01/05/this-years-model/</link>
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		<title>Purloined Letters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance of mine, Margo Rabb, recently wrote a piece for the New York Times on which books are most often stolen from book stores. The Bible, along with books by Martin Amis, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo and Jack Kerouac, are at the top of the list. As Rabb points [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2010/01/04/purloined-letters/</link>
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		<title>Be Afraid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald has a good article at Salon about the ways in which the threat of terrorism is being used by some to argue for various violations of the Contstitution and our civil rights. He also highlights the media&#8217;s complicity in stoking these fears.
I thought of the article last night when I happened to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2010/01/03/be-afraid/</link>
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		<title>Year in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, 2009 was a fantastically unproductive blogging year for me, though quite eventful and exhausting personally. Frightening, really, that I&#8217;ve neglected this blog for a year, and it doesn&#8217;t even seem that long. Tempus fugit and all that. This year will be different, perhaps, though again, I&#8217;ll make no promises.
I will begin the new year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2010/01/01/year-in-review/</link>
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		<title>It Looks Like You&#8217;re Reading The Newsstand Sophisticate. Would You Like Help?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve used Microsoft Word in the past ten years or so, you&#8217;ve probably been annoyed by &#8220;Clippy,&#8221; the little talking paper clip who recognizes that you&#8217;re writing a letter and then offers you some &#8220;help.&#8221; If you&#8217;ve ever wondered where Clippy (or the talking dog that also offered his unwanted assistance) came from and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2009/01/02/it-looks-like-youre-reading-the-newsstand-sophisticate-would-you-like-help/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while, in part because the last three months of 2008 were very busy for me: I had several freelance projects, found full-time gainful employment (twice!), endured an episode of the flu, and found out that my wife and I will be having another child. I would have written exhaustively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2009/01/01/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Shuffle Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not Scranton, but here&#8217;s an article from New York magazine about people who have moved from New York City to Buffalo and are trying to make the long-benighted city a better place.
I certainly understand the experiences and motivations of the people profiled in the article. I lived in New York City for around seven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2008/08/27/shuffle-off/</link>
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		<title>M(a)us(ol)eum Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Because it&#8217;s fun to make fun of parentheses-heavy academic book titles.) As I wrote about earlier, some cities&#8217; cores seem to be emptying out, or at least becoming more ethnically and economically homogeneous, as high prices make it harder for low- and middle-income people to afford living in them. Paris, San Francisco, Manhattan, Rome, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2008/08/25/mausoleum-cities/</link>
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		<title>You Make Me Feel Like Danzig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Brayton delves into the beliefs of a Catholic priest in England who recently announced that &#8220;among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor.&#8221; The priest, Father Jeremy Davies, also said that &#8220;extreme secular humanism, &#8216;atheist scientism,&#8217; is comparable to &#8216;rational satanism,&#8217;&#8221; which is one of the more ridiculous terms of abuse I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newsstandsophisticate.com/2008/08/20/you-make-me-feel-like-danzig/</link>
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