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		<title>I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND by bohumil hrabal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[reminded me of walser &#8212; maybe a more worldy walser. as if instead of retreating to the madhouse, hrabal was sentenced to the purgatory of the diplomatic corps &#8212; forced propriety despite the absurd or horrific swirls of history around him. but, like walser, he recognizes the poetic gesture&#8230; poetic or romantic despite or because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2012/01/05/i-served-the-king-of-england-by-bohumil-hrabal/</link>
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		<title>favorites of twenty eleven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in no particular but starting it off: giancarlo&#8217;s glamour-soaked narcissus tale as lit journal advertisement&#8230; hans rickheit&#8217;s SQUIRREL MACHINE is a great gross-out dream&#8230; the beautiful ephemera of luca&#8217;s DAS DING #3&#8230; saying goodbye and anticipating saying goodbye to merce&#8230; the tumult of a chinese lifetime told in incredible locked down, long take that is wang bing&#8217;s FENGMING&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/12/02/personal-bests-of-eleven/</link>
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		<title>New story called &#8220;Booster Rockets&#8221; in latest FENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;m happy to have a new story called &#8220;Booster Rockets&#8221; in the latest issue of FENCE magazine. here&#8217;s how it starts: I was coming from a haircut and I was upset. I had just spent a lot of money on the haircut but I didn&#8217;t have a lot of money. It&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m vain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/11/07/new-story-called-booster-rockets-in-latest-fence/</link>
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		<title>AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN PARIS by georges perec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;ve a review of this perec gem in Jacket2. an issue devoted to the stroll. edited by corey frost and louis bury. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris was written by Georges Perec during a gray Parisian weekend in October 1974. The stated intention was to “describe … that which is generally not taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/11/02/an-attempt-at-exhausting-a-place-in-paris-by-georges-perec/</link>
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		<title>THE PARADISE BIRD TATTOO (or, attempted double-suicide) by choukitsu kurumatani</title>
		<description><![CDATA[what would happen to raskolnikov if he hadn&#8217;t killed the old woman? kurumatani seems to ask that question in this grim tale about a young japanese man who decides to opt as far out of life as he can. if not wholly unique in tone and content, a very good book on a great theme: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/10/05/the-paradise-bird-tattoo-or-attempted-double-suicide-by-choukitsu-kurumatani/</link>
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		<title>MAKING LOVE by jean-philippe toussaint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[your poor fabulously wealthy man of leisure slash hipster is nursing a dying love affair while his highly sensitive instrument notes, in languorous and voluptuous detail, the grime and dazzle of his worldly world. We took shelter inside for a moment, passing abruptly from the bluish gloom of the night to the violent and timeless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/09/04/making-love-by-jean-philippe-toussaint/</link>
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		<title>OPEN CITY by teju cole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[using a realist, pseudo-autobiographical style very reminiscent of sebald, the main character, Julius, wanders through an up-to-date and recognizable NYC, an accomplishment in itself, observing the marathoners and skyscrapers at columbus circle, the twin towers intact in the queens museum&#8217;s diorama, conversations with cabdrivers infused with political subtext, bedbugs &#8212; and uses that general observation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/08/17/open-city-by-teju-cole/</link>
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		<title>SUICIDE by edouard levé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[not purely fiction but located somewhere between death porn, a bipolar&#8217;s daybook, and a conceptual suicide note, levé&#8217;s novel &#8212; which is inseparable from its author&#8217;s biography &#8212; seems less a treatise on suicide than a portrait of an elegant but somehow dull faculty. (or dulled? the translator&#8217;s afterword calls levé&#8217;s aesthetic habitually &#8220;austere.&#8221;) the narrator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/07/11/suicide-by-edouard-leve/</link>
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		<title>YES by thomas bernhard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[bernhard writes a devastating book, a poetry of mental illness &#8212; without romanticism but with music, true also to the horror. both an emulation of the sickness and an attendant commentary on its causes and end. we read bernhard for his musical eremitism, which takes the barest fact, the most stripped-down situation (here, a man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/07/11/yes-by-thomas-bernhard/</link>
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		<title>From STRANGE TWINS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Douglas Messerli for publishing an excerpt from a novel-in-slow-progress currently called STRANGE TWINS at his EXPLORINGfictions:﻿ How I got the job is an interesting story. Like all her hires, I was recruited. It was when my twin brother invited me to a party. A self-help book my brother had secretly ghost-written was having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eugenelim.com/2011/06/23/from-strange-twins/</link>
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