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    "id": 5915,
    "subject": "This week in Google Alerts: Mieville on Wolfe",
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    "first": "2011-01-18T01:25:38+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<AANLkTikoRuyX=NYuvwuG+-Mkxq_gA-U3J0FUHOmquaf8@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2011-01-18T01:25:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) This week in Google Alerts: Mieville on Wolfe",
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          "text": "Q: \"How does your political viewpoint relate to your fiction?\nA. ....\nSometimes what you can really admire in a book while disagreeing with its politics, and/or the politics of the writer, doesn't mean not seeing the politics. For example, I think the books of Gene Wolfe are very political books, and he's a quite traditional, right-wing Catholic. I think he's an outstanding genius and I don't think it's just that he writes these cool, weird books and he has these politics. I think the politics are in the books. I love the books, and I don't love them despite the politics?I disagree with the politics, but I find it fascinating, the texture it gives to the world.\nConrad's _Heart of Darkness_ is a book that is, I think, structured by a kind of racism. It could not be the book it is without that racism. I love the book. I hate the racism. And I think you can have it both ways in the realm of fiction and art. There's no contradiction there.\""
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          "text": "http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13011\n\nAlso worth noting:\n\n- http://silk4calde.blogspot.com/2011/01/influence-of-g-k-chestertons-writings.html\n- http://mervih.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/gene-wolfe-the-fifth-head-of-cerberus/\n(review of TFHoC)\n- http://blog.42scifi-fantasy.com/2011/01/new-scifi-fantasy-releases-week-of_16.html\n(PR-y short review of _Home Fires_)\n- http://andy-wolverton.livejournal.com/41818.html (quasi-review of\n_The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories_)"
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          "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net"
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