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		<title>The 8 Best Nabokov Novels &#124; Book Reviews by Massey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is the best Nabokov novel? Any ranking is subjective but the reasons behind a &#8220;best of&#8221; rank can be illuminating.  So I’ve given it a crack. Here is my personal list with notes, which includes a little cheating. Of the eight “best” Nabokov books on my list, you’ll notice only six are novels. Lolita [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=2048&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Whimsical Turtles&#8221; &#124; Nonsense by Massey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you call flighty, impulsive behavior in turtles? &#8220;Carapace caprice.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=2045&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Money Girls&#8221; &#124; Poems by Massey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Money Girls Beauty is marketing to the Money girls and they spend With lavish precision because Big dreams need big budgets. Seal-sleek hair, shinning pumps, Pearl earrings, suit and skirt, All elegance and no sex they Interrogate their prey with Smooth questions; and when Your answers satisfy they slide Their treasured secrets from Leather [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=2041&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Okay, Maybe Capitalism is Evil After All &#124; The Fifty Shades Inner Goddess Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a guy who writes mediocre poetry and has read one volume of Proust, I&#8217;ve always been pretty okay with capitalism. But the Fifty Shades of Grey Inner Goddess Journal (list price $16.99) is making me change my mind. Before I saw the ad for this excellent product in The New York Times Book Review [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=2031&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Panty Raid at a Christian College?&#8221; &#124; Nonsense by Massey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you call a panty raid at a Christian college? &#8220;Fundies and undies.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=2026&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Death of Marcella Pattyn, Age 92, Last of the Beguine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 17:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can 800 years of Western History &#8212; can the history of all human experience &#8212; find a home in a single life? If so, then that life belonged to Marcella Pattyn, last of the Beguine, who died on April 14 and for whom an obituary was published in The Economist. The Beguines were trying to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=2009&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1 of &#8220;Queen of the Nude&#8221; &#124; Novel on eBook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been several months since I gave my novel a blatant, full-post flogging, so I figured it was time; especially since summer is fast approaching in the United States and &#8220;Queen&#8221; is the perfect middlebrow beach read. (At least that&#8217;s what my press materials say.) Here is the complete first chapter, and if you like [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=1996&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clash of &#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221; Cover Designs &#124; Why Does It Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Bosman published an interesting article on the front page of the The New York Times yesterday about competing cover designs for two paperback editions of The Great Gatsby. (The article is here.)  The first is a re-issue of the classic Gatsby cover familiar to readers old enough to have read Fitzgerald&#8217;s masterpiece in high [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=1970&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Atalanta&#8221; &#124; Poems by Massey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Galen Massey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atalanta Who are you chasing? Who are you fleeing? Always yourself, who You’ll never be so swift To seize hold or escape. I knew you young. Speed and the race Were enough, and The end didn’t matter If it were other than The place you started, And your heart rushed with The excitement of victory. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=1961&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the Deal&#8221; &#124; Poems by Massey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the Deal For love, God said, I will Give you this knife and Place it in your back. Sometimes I will let it Sit, a dull throbbing ache. Sometimes, I will lever You up and make you Dance on tip toe. Sometimes, I will rasp Your bones with its Rough blade. When she is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petergalenmassey.com&#038;blog=31762919&#038;post=1955&#038;subd=petergalenmassey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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