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Last login: 6 weeks agoLeandrooliveira: Leandro is a 29 year old married guy from Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.; Likes 22 pages; Member since Dec 13, 2006

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Mark Jenkins: Street Installations: Aug 10, 2007 10:56am 1020 reviews arts
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html

Diary of a Bad Year - The New York Review of Books: Jul 2, 2007 8:03am 1 review books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20390; Coetzee. New book. Excellent.

Shibuya on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Apr 27, 2007 7:14am 0 review japan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manganite/435541215/

ELPAIS.com - Para quien va a escribir - Cultura y Espectáculos - Agenda Ocio: Apr 16, 2007 6:57am 1 review iraq
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/ensayo/quien/va/escribir/elpepuculbab/20070331...; From the page: "El misterio del acto de crear permanece intacto. RecorrÃ la prosa de personas que buscaban tambiÃ©n comprender, y el misterio del acto de crear permanece intacto. No creo que ningÃºn individuo lo aclare. Y me resigno a duras penas a ese hecho. Cuando una obra es buena se vuelve impermeable a cualquier tipo de abordaje. Sus mecanismos estÃ¡n ocultos. Podemos comprobar los resultados pero nunca alcanzamos las raÃces. Ni el tronco. Las hojas sÃ, a veces, Â¿y quÃ© interesan las hojas?"

OliviaBs profile - StumbleUpon: Apr 13, 2007 4:57am 498 reviews stumblers
http://oliviab.stumbleupon.com/

cookie756.html: Apr 13, 2007 4:55am 0 review literature
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/04/12/eggers_on_vonnegut/

VONNEGUT&8226;COM -- The Official Website of Kurt Vonnegut: Apr 12, 2007 12:48pm 86 reviews books
http://www.vonnegut.com/

This Writing Life: Mar 19, 2007 10:32am 1 review blogs
http://ianhocking.com/thiswritinglife.html; From the page: "A step-by-step guide to getting an interview with David Mitchell:

1. Email his publicist on the off chance that Mr Mitchell might answer a question or two via email - a kind of 'fire and forget' mechanism that requires little effort and permits intra-sentence tea breaks willy nilly.
2. Receive follow up email that reads 'Yes, Mr Mitchell will talk to you. Call him at 2pm on Thursday (he's in Japan) and speak slowly and clearly because he has a cold.'
3. Realise you'll actually have to talk to your favourite writer.
4. Share a look of disbelief with the nearest gerbil and say 'Fuck'.
5. Realise you have only two days to come up with brilliantly erudite questions about Borges, Kafka and that Murakami bloke.
6. Realise you can't.
7. Share another look with gerbil.
8. Say to girlfriend: 'Yes, *that* David Mitchell. Yes, I know I'm always banging on about him. No, I don't write shorthand. Yes, I'll have to record it. How? I don't know.'
9. Enter a fugue state."

BOOKFORUM | Feb/Mar 2007: Feb 16, 2007 5:46am 1 review books
http://www.bookforum.com/Gibbons_Feb07.html; From the page: "The Auster phenomenon is unusual enough to warrant consideration, and now would be an apt moment to do so because Auster himself is indulging in some retrospective stocktaking. His new novel, Travels in the Scriptorium, features characters taken from his fiction reaching all the way back to the New York Trilogy, the loosely interrelated novels published in the mid-'80s that remain, along with the remarkable memoir The Invention of Solitude (1982), his finest achievements. As Auster devotees with sharp memories may recall, the title Travels in the Scriptorium has already appeared as the name of one of director Hector Mann's films in The Book of Illusions, and as a whole Travels in the Scriptorium casts a long if purposefully distorted glance over Auster's entire body of work. "

Conversational Reading: Infinite Jest, Digested: Part One: Jan 24, 2007 4:23am 1 review books
http://www.conversationalreading.com/2007/01/infinite_jest_d.html; From the page: "One, it%u2019s difficult to lug the book around without calling attention to yourself. Most paperbacks you can tug around discreetly. If friends or strangers or coworkers happen to notice the spine, you can say something vague or witty and be off to your regularly appointed lunchtime reading session. %u201COh, this? Just some novel I picked up. No, I just started it. I%u2019m not really sure what Portnoy%u2019s so-called %u2018complaint%u2019 is, yet. I%u2019ll have to keep reading. Thanks for asking, though.%u201D Etc. But with Jest, the size of the spine is unhide-able and it lures people into conversation, and it%u2019s hard not to become a snob when they ask you to tell them what the story is about, because even though you%u2019re being honest when you say, %u201CIt%u2019s really too complicated to go into right here,%u201D it still rubs people the wrong way. So, my first conclusion: Infinite Jest is a conversation killer. "

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