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		<title>Book Review: Joe Pernice &#8220;It Feels So Good When I Stop&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/09/19/book-review-joe-pernice-it-feels-so-good-when-i-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is perfectly fitting, and almost expected, that Joe Pernice would bring a long work of fiction into the world. The songs he has written for his pop band The Pernice Brothers are filled with vivid storylines and pointillist details. And Pernice has already proven his mettle as a fine fiction writer with his installment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: David Berman&#8217;s &#8220;The Portable February&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/06/17/book-review-david-bermans-the-portable-february/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though he&#8217;s best known for fronting the late, great Silver Jews, sardonic, cerebral country rock isn&#8217;t David Berman&#8217;s only talent. He&#8217;s also a celebrated poet (see 1996&#8242;s dry Actual Air) and cartoonist whose drawings have popped up in the margins of The Baffler and adorned art-gallery walls. The Portable February (Drag City), his first published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos&#8217; &#8220;Drama City&#8221; and &#8220;The Turnaround&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/21/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-drama-city-and-the-turnaround/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as high art. MAGNET’s Andrew Earles surveys the modern landscape of hard-boiled detective stories and tales of noir-colored underworlds Drama City / The Turnaround Why are these two George Pelecanos books saved for last? 2005&#8242;s Drama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos&#8217; &#8220;Shoedog&#8221; and &#8220;The Night Gardener&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/20/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-shoedog-and-the-night-gardener/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MAGNET Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as high art. MAGNET’s Andrew Earles surveys the modern landscape of hard-boiled detective stories and tales of noir-colored underworlds Shoedog / The Night Gardner George Pelecanos has written four stand-alone books, three in the past five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos&#8217; Derek Strange/Terry Quinn Series</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/19/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-derek-strangeterry-quinn-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/19/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-derek-strangeterry-quinn-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MAGNET Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as high art. MAGNET’s Andrew Earles surveys the modern landscape of hard-boiled detective stories and tales of noir-colored underworlds. Right As Rain / Hell To Pay / Soul Circus / Hard Revolution Not to scoop the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos&#8217; Nick Stefanos Series</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/18/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-nick-stefanos-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MAGNET Staff</dc:creator>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos&#8217; D.C. Quartet</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/17/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-dc-quartet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/17/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-dc-quartet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MAGNET Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as high art. MAGNET’s Andrew Earles surveys the modern landscape of hard-boiled detective stories and tales of noir-colored underworlds. The Big Blowdown / King Suckerman / The Sweet Forever / Shame The Devil An excellent primer, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/16/crime-stories-george-pelecanos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/16/crime-stories-george-pelecanos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MAGNET Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as high art. MAGNET’s Andrew Earles surveys the modern landscape of hard-boiled detective stories and tales of noir-colored underworlds. For the last eight years, I’ve obsessed over crime fiction. My crusade to defend the genre as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Stories: George Pelecanos Makes MAGNET A Mix Tape</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/16/crime-stories-george-pelecanos-makes-magnet-a-mix-tape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MAGNET Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAGNET has long been an admirer of George Pelecanos, a D.C.-based author who&#8217;s penned 15 crime-fiction novels and written for HBO series The Wire. As we prepare to dive into a weeklong series of posts examining Pelecanos&#8217; literary work (starting later today), we asked the man to clue us in to his latest musical interests. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Westerberg&#8217;s Latest Super Value Record</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2008/12/26/paul-westerbergs-latest-super-value-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2008/12/26/paul-westerbergs-latest-super-value-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric T. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Westerberg has become the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll version of the Super Value Menu at Wendy&#8217;s. Think of the former Replacements leader as indie rock&#8217;s Spicy Chicken Go Wrap. Or maybe its Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. After releasing digital records this year costing $0.49 (49:00), $0.99 (Bored Of Edukation) and $3.99 (3oclockreep), Westy is back with the three-track D.G.T. for the bargain [...]]]></description>
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