<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post3882154771708853635..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6112950127195381838</id><published>2007-11-20T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>From the dead novelists article: &quot;Vonnegut was the...</title><summary type='text'>From the dead novelists article: &quot;Vonnegut was the American Mark Twain.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Funny, I thought Mark Twain was the American Mark Twain (as well as the American Samuel Clemens), and Kurt Vonnegut was the American Kurt Vonnegut (though he could have been the American Kilgore Trout).  By the way, did you hear that the English William Shakespeare was the English Christopher Marlowe?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/6112950127195381838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/6112950127195381838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195574040000#c6112950127195381838' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-786342586063516859</id><published>2007-11-18T22:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-18T22:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That Berkeley fire of 1923 destroyed many of the b...</title><summary type='text'>That Berkeley fire of 1923 destroyed many of the best shingle-style homes designed by Maybeck.  One whole block--I think there were maybe half a dozen--went up, including the Charles Keeler house.  The Hillside Club--closely associated with Maybeck--a Berkeley women&#39;s group devoted to protecting the sylvan values of the Berkeley Hills, and to the encouragement of appropriate residential design </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/786342586063516859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/786342586063516859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195442820000#c786342586063516859' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2311295560648134927</id><published>2007-11-18T10:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-18T10:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>from all the obits i&#39;ve read on mailerit sounds li...</title><summary type='text'>from all the obits i&#39;ve read on mailer&lt;BR/&gt;it sounds like the fighter &lt;BR/&gt;is somehow more immortal than the writer&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as for the great novelists of the latter half of the 20th century&lt;BR/&gt;the understated  wallace stegner must reign near the top&lt;BR/&gt;far more insightful&lt;BR/&gt;than either morrison&lt;BR/&gt;or mailer for that matter&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;jf powers is characteristically neglected&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/2311295560648134927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/2311295560648134927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195398600000#c2311295560648134927' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5805479079211133359</id><published>2007-11-17T18:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T18:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My uncle Newton fought that fire in 1923 -- none o...</title><summary type='text'>My uncle Newton fought that fire in 1923 -- none of the homes of the extended family were at risk, because we always lived in &quot;the flats&quot; of Berkeley. But his step son, Bob Cox, died in the 1991 firestorm on one of those little roads over the Caldecott Tunnel.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/5805479079211133359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/5805479079211133359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195343280000#c5805479079211133359' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8667248341226558540</id><published>2007-11-17T14:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T14:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dick Cavett column linked here might be the fu...</title><summary type='text'>The Dick Cavett column linked here might be the funniest thing I&#39;ve read all year....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Janet Flanner&#39;s sister, to go off track here, was the poet Hildegarde Flanner.  I enjoy Hildegarde&#39;s poems, and have always meant to track down the article she wrote for the &lt;I&gt;New Yorker&lt;/I&gt; in the late 1920s about the huge 1923 fire in Berkeley (which destroyed the Flanner family home and many others).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/8667248341226558540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/8667248341226558540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195329540000#c8667248341226558540' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7116360641351074218</id><published>2007-11-17T13:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T13:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow. It&#39;s amazing how thoroughly dumb every senten...</title><summary type='text'>Wow. It&#39;s amazing how thoroughly dumb &lt;I&gt;every sentence&lt;/I&gt; Mark Ravenhill writes here is. His article&#39;s only value is as a portrait of how quickly his particular strain of bad writing becomes exhausted, how boring and homogeneous that concept of diversity is that has to lean on notions like &quot;the gay experience,&quot; &quot;the gay story.&quot; As if exemplification of an assumed &quot;identity&quot; were ever what made </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/7116360641351074218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/7116360641351074218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195325040000#c7116360641351074218' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6116770565715563435</id><published>2007-11-17T10:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T10:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Regarding the Academy of American Poets conference...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Regarding the Academy of American Poets conference on &quot;aesthetic diversity&quot;:&lt;/I&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Looks like Lyn Hejinian, the Academy, and others are on to this whole business of convening a inter- and intra-school dialog where poets of differing ilks get together to chat publicly about varying approaches. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And Bob Hass, as you noted, won a National Book Award. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And (I say with a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/6116770565715563435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/6116770565715563435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195313520000#c6116770565715563435' title=''/><author><name>Jason</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12216759442154735885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-246495946"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2009283910823271690</id><published>2007-11-17T10:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T10:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I remember PAdgett writing about 20 years ago that...</title><summary type='text'>I remember PAdgett writing about 20 years ago that he was a &quot;no longer so young poet&quot; and now he&#39;s actually an old poet.  It&#39;s strange.  I can&#39;t picture him as having changed from the young Turk who wrote Strawberries in Mexico -- with all the wild comic-booky textures of that poem.  Nice piece.  Padgett at 65.  At least he&#39;s still thin.  How did he manage that?  Perhaps it&#39;s the tennis that he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/2009283910823271690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3882154771708853635/comments/default/2009283910823271690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html?showComment=1195312200000#c2009283910823271690' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/kenny-goldsmiths-playlist-for-november.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3882154771708853635' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3882154771708853635' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2007"/></entry></feed>