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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Books</title>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/02/03/the-current-reading-list-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve (1860). One of my current reading projects is to catch up on Turgenev, whose work was enormously influential on Meiji Japan. This novel, for example, is cited repeatedly in Tayama Katai&#8217;s &#8220;Futon&#8221; (1907), a landmark in modern Japanese fiction. I can see the attraction On the Eve held for Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-current-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things I&#8217;ve been reading as of late: Jim Harrison, True North (Grove Press, 2004). I&#8217;m a belated convert to Harrison&#8217;s fiction: I&#8217;ve known about him since a girlfriend in high school recommended him, but only started reading his work in the last few years. I inadvertently read Returning to Earth, the 2007 sequel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/27/revisiting-natsume-sosekis-theory-of-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Center for Philosophy hosted a symposium on &#8220;Globalizing Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature,&#8221; commemorating the publication of the English translation of Bungakuron (1907), Sōseki&#8217;s remarkable attempt to construct a fully scientific theory of &#8220;literature&#8221; complete with mathematical formulas and graphs, one that was supposed to be valid at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moneyball and the Limits of Managerial Science</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/01/moneyball-and-the-limits-of-managerial-science/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/01/moneyball-and-the-limits-of-managerial-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to reading Moneyball, Michael Lewis&#8217; now-classic 2003 portrait of Oakland A&#8217;s general manager Billy Beane. A decade ago Beane led the statistical revolution in contemporary Major League baseball, using computers, the Internet, and statistics to identify sources of talent that were undervalued by traditional baseball wisdom (meaning, primarily, the collective wisdom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blurbing</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/21/blurbing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things on my to-do list this past week was to compose a blurb for a forthcoming book on modern Japanese literature. I get asked to do this once or twice a year; often it is for a title that I&#8217;ve already reviewed as an external referee, meaning that I&#8217;m already quite familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/10/25/the-current-reading-list-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway, The Torrents of Spring (1926). Written as a rather wicked caricature of the work of Sherwood Anderson, this early Hemingway had me pondering the ways in which his style borders on being a parody of itself: the more he makes fun of Anderson, the more he sounds like the mature Hemingway. Tokunaga Sunao　徳永直, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/26/new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai, edited by Richard Calichman and John Namjun Kim, has just been published. An exploration of one of the most interesting theorists working in Japanese cultural studies (and one of my own mentors), the volume contains new essays by scholars from a variety of fields&#8211;including yours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franzen&#8217;s New Novel</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/08/franzens-new-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like you, I&#8217;m currently reading Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s Freedom. (You are, aren&#8217;t you?). I have to reserve judgment on the novel as a whole until I finish reading it&#8211;and I&#8217;m a sssslllloooowwww reader these days&#8211;but in general you can color me impressed. As he did in The Corrections, Franzen presents a painfully life-like portrait of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of the Devil</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/01/speaking-of-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my reading recently I&#8217;ve been haunted by the devil. For example, he shows up, albeit ambiguously, in Charles Baxter&#8217;s fine 2008 novel, The Soul Thief. The narrative, written with Baxter&#8217;s usual intelligence and style, traces the life on one &#8220;Nathaniel Mason,&#8221; as told in the first person&#8211;or, perhaps not. It might be that Nathaniel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/07/23/the-current-reading-list-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin. Just about the perfect novel: funny, poignant, wise. Nabokov&#8217;s ability to make the English language dance at will is astonishing. The hero Pnin is a White Russian exile, an intellectual reared in the salt water of Europe now trying to survive in the mucky freshwater of 1950s American academia. It&#8217;s been years [...]]]></description>
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