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    <itunes:summary>Podcasting from Tucson, AZ, Prabjit and Jared are two guys reaching out with their discussions and reviews of classic American literature with their casual, comedic, and sometimes critical eyes.</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>Prab and Jared review novels in the American literature canon from Tucson, AZ.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello everyone, and I mean EVERYONE,

 - Dang! All 100+ of you have eaten our bandwidth. Well that was our rookie mistake (or mine, Jared's probably doodling in class right now) and we're fixing it.

 - Featured Track:
   - "Com" by Floex, maybe I'll have their info. up, right now we're swamped with tons of shiz.

Be Eco-friendly and read,
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:07:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hello everyone, and I mean EVERYONE,

 - Dang! All 100+ of you have eaten our bandwidth. Well that was our rookie mistake (or mine, Jared's probably doodling in class right now) and we're fixing it.

 - Featured Track:
   - "Com" by Floex, maybe I'll have their info. up, right now we're swamped with tons of shiz.

Be Eco-friendly and read,
Prabjit]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>1.1 The Great Gatsby</title>
      <description><![CDATA[EPISODE 1.1
 - In this podcast we’ll start our first novel: The Great Gatsby
 - Thanks for all the listens everybody!
 - News
   - Personal
     - Classes and getting stood up
     - Sarah Silverman’s “Jesus is Magic”. We loved it.
   - Podcast
     - Featured music
       - Electronic music I like
       - This month’s intro/outro is provided by Multiplex’s “With Hands and Feet (Novel 23)”.
       - Backtrack (discontinued) – Aspen’s “Are You That Retail Snob?”
     - New Directories: Podcast.net, DigitalPodcast.com, iPodder.org, Yahoo Podcasts, and fixed PodcastPickle.com problem (if anyone had a problem).
     - Our flickr page, http://www.flickr.com/groups/amerlitreview/, has been updated.
   - Booknews???? Jared’s against it! But I’m sneaking it in to the show notes, haha! So this is a collection of the NPR book stories (available in audio at npr.org) I liked most over a three-month period, enjoy: (just paste these titles into their website and you’ll find it)
     - ‘Sweeping Beauty' Cleans Up With Poetry
     - Early Capote Novella Finds a Publisher
     - Exploring Abraham Lincoln's 'Melancholy'
     - Billy Collins on 'The Trouble with Poetry'
     - 'Still Looking' Collects John Updike Essays on Art
     - Robert Louis Stevenson's Split Personality
     - Book Examines Science in a Left-Handed Way
     - Book Tracks 'Last Chance' for Texas Youths
 - The Great Gatsby
   - Why we choose it:
     - It defines the great American novel, dealing with the themes of the American Dream, affluence, and the Jazz Age.
   - Which editions we’re sporting:
     - Charles Scribner’s and Sons
       - Which has notes and a preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli, a publisher’s afterword, explanatory notes, further readings, and a brief life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
     - Oxford World’s Classics probably has a more lengthy background of the author and his career.
 - The Man: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
   - Biographies and social histories are crucial in exploring the arts. Freudian Psychoanalysis also plays a role even though it takes a separate, almost closed view of art.
   - Born in St. Paul Minnesota Sept. 24, 1896. His namesake comes from Francis Scott Key, his second cousin three times removed. Has Catholic parents and attends a prep school. Dad was business failure (in the furniture business). Attended Princeton in 1917, writing musicals and for literary magazines.
   - Not doing so well in school he enlisted in the army and went to France for a while. He wrote a novel while at war, “The Romantic Egotist”. Meets Zelda in AL in 1918. “This Side of Paradise” is published in March 1920 and marries Zelda. He wrote for The Sat. Evening Post. They began to travel around world living the life of a celebrity.
   - Zelda gets pregnant in 1921, gives birth to Scotty. He writes a failed play, the vegetable and then writes short stories to get out of debt. He becomes increasingly bibulous. Then in France (’24) and Rome (’25) he finishes “The Great Gatsby” which gets critical praise (our mistake in the podcast) for its complex structure and controlled narrative, but does not sell many copies of it. He was also known for his painstaking revisions. The chief themes of his work are aspiration and loss.
   - In 1926, Zelda goes cooky! So they return to US. Zelda attempts ballet in 1928. In 1930, Zelda breaks down, goes to a clinic. Fitzgerald must write short stories to pay for her treatment and his debt and he averages 25,000 dollars a year In 1932, Zelda relapses…goes to Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and spends rest of life there. In 1934, Fitzgerald writes “Tender is the Night” and it fails.
   - In ‘37 he goes to Hollywood to write a script. The 1-yr. contract with MGM gets him 91 K a year, which pays for debts and Zelda. While in Hollywood, he falls in love with Sheilah Graham. Dropped from MGM in ‘38, he starts writing “The Love of Last Tycoon” in 1939.
   - He dies in Graham’s apt in Dec. 21, 1940 form a heart attack. Zelda dies in hospital fire in 1948. He dies believing himself a failure. In 1945-50 there was a revival of appreciation for his work. Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”.
   - He defined an American decade - American issues of aspiration, loss, the American Dream – self made affluence and hopelessly optimistic. The novel shows the characters’ disillusionment with the world’s reality: full of people and consequences.
   - Sidenote: Fitzgerald blamed the lack of success of “The Great Gatsby” on its title.

 - Closing remarks…
   - Has a lesbian asked for your sperm?
     - email us your crazy-good book anecdotes!

Thanks for listening!
 - Prabjit and Jared
Email us at americanlitreview@gmail.com
 - Featured Music - Proem’s “Old School Pudding”. Find them at http://proemland.com/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:59:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[EPISODE 1.1
 - In this podcast we’ll start our first novel: The Great Gatsby
 - Thanks for all the listens everybody!
 - News
   - Personal
     - Classes and getting stood up
     - Sarah Silverman’s “Jesus is Magic”. We loved it.
   - Podcast
     - Featured music
       - Electronic music I like
       - This month’s intro/outro is provided by Multiplex’s “With Hands and Feet (Novel 23)”.
       - Backtrack (discontinued) – Aspen’s “Are You That Retail Snob?”
     - New Directories: Podcast.net, DigitalPodcast.com, iPodder.org, Yahoo Podcasts, and fixed PodcastPickle.com problem (if anyone had a problem).
     - Our flickr page, http://www.flickr.com/groups/amerlitreview/, has been updated.
   - Booknews???? Jared’s against it! But I’m sneaking it in to the show notes, haha! So this is a collection of the NPR book stories (available in audio at npr.org) I liked most over a three-month period, enjoy: (just paste these titles into their website and you’ll find it)
     - ‘Sweeping Beauty' Cleans Up With Poetry
     - Early Capote Novella Finds a Publisher
     - Exploring Abraham Lincoln's 'Melancholy'
     - Billy Collins on 'The Trouble with Poetry'
     - 'Still Looking' Collects John Updike Essays on Art
     - Robert Louis Stevenson's Split Personality
     - Book Examines Science in a Left-Handed Way
     - Book Tracks 'Last Chance' for Texas Youths
 - The Great Gatsby
   - Why we choose it:
     - It defines the great American novel, dealing with the themes of the American Dream, affluence, and the Jazz Age.
   - Which editions we’re sporting:
     - Charles Scribner’s and Sons
       - Which has notes and a preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli, a publisher’s afterword, explanatory notes, further readings, and a brief life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
     - Oxford World’s Classics probably has a more lengthy background of the author and his career.
 - The Man: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
   - Biographies and social histories are crucial in exploring the arts. Freudian Psychoanalysis also plays a role even though it takes a separate, almost closed view of art.
   - Born in St. Paul Minnesota Sept. 24, 1896. His namesake comes from Francis Scott Key, his second cousin three times removed. Has Catholic parents and attends a prep school. Dad was business failure (in the furniture business). Attended Princeton in 1917, writing musicals and for literary magazines.
   - Not doing so well in school he enlisted in the army and went to France for a while. He wrote a novel while at war, “The Romantic Egotist”. Meets Zelda in AL in 1918. “This Side of Paradise” is published in March 1920 and marries Zelda. He wrote for The Sat. Evening Post. They began to travel around world living the life of a celebrity.
   - Zelda gets pregnant in 1921, gives birth to Scotty. He writes a failed play, the vegetable and then writes short stories to get out of debt. He becomes increasingly bibulous. Then in France (’24) and Rome (’25) he finishes “The Great Gatsby” which gets critical praise (our mistake in the podcast) for its complex structure and controlled narrative, but does not sell many copies of it. He was also known for his painstaking revisions. The chief themes of his work are aspiration and loss.
   - In 1926, Zelda goes cooky! So they return to US. Zelda attempts ballet in 1928. In 1930, Zelda breaks down, goes to a clinic. Fitzgerald must write short stories to pay for her treatment and his debt and he averages 25,000 dollars a year In 1932, Zelda relapses…goes to Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and spends rest of life there. In 1934, Fitzgerald writes “Tender is the Night” and it fails.
   - In ‘37 he goes to Hollywood to write a script. The 1-yr. contract with MGM gets him 91 K a year, which pays for debts and Zelda. While in Hollywood, he falls in love with Sheilah Graham. Dropped from MGM in ‘38, he starts writing “The Love of Last Tycoon” in 1939.
   - He dies in Graham’s apt in Dec. 21, 1940 form a heart attack. Zelda dies in hospital fire in 1948. He dies believing himself a failure. In 1945-50 there was a revival of appreciation for his work. Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”.
   - He defined an American decade - American issues of aspiration, loss, the American Dream – self made affluence and hopelessly optimistic. The novel shows the characters’ disillusionment with the world’s reality: full of people and consequences.
   - Sidenote: Fitzgerald blamed the lack of success of “The Great Gatsby” on its title.

 - Closing remarks…
   - Has a lesbian asked for your sperm?
     - email us your crazy-good book anecdotes!

Thanks for listening!
 - Prabjit and Jared
Email us at americanlitreview@gmail.com
 - Featured Music - Proem’s “Old School Pudding”. Find them at http://proemland.com/]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Welcome to our Podcast!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[- In this podcast we’ll cover the why, what, and who the show’s for. We’re podcasting about classic American Literature.
 - Round of Introductions – Prabjit and Jared
 - We only cover novels. No plays, short stories, really recent novels, pop novels (Grisham)...

 - Web Resources:
   - Podcast Email – americanlitreview@gmail.com
   - Our blog – http://americanlitereview.blogspot.com has our show notes, past shows, and weekly links to book sites.
   - Podcast directories – find us everywhere
   - Please donate through PAYPAL if you totally love our efforts to get these books more exposure. Thanks!
   - http://www.flickr.com/groups/amerlitreview – post pictures of where you live and read!

 - Directories we’re in:
   - PodcastPickle.com, PodcastingNews.com, Odeo.com, PodcastAlley.com, and iTunes and Yahoo podcasts.

 - Current Links (suggest one and we’ll post it) - Modern Library, Penguin USA, NPR: books, Half.com, Audiobooksforfree.com
 - http://www.frappr.com/americanlitreview – Put in your zip code and join our map
 - Bookstores - Bookman’s, Bookstop, Barnes and Nobles, Borders
 - Authors on our List - Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wharton, Hemingway…

 - Show format – 4 shows per book
   - 1st show – Author and novel background, which editions we’ll be using
   - 2nd show – Plot, setting, situations.
   - 3rd show – Theme, Symbolism, Motifs
   - 4th show – Rate the book!, what we take away from it, comparisons with other works, and introduce next novel

 - Podcasts I recommend: More Hip Than Hippie, The Vegan Cooking School, Movies You Should See, VeryVocabulary, The Word Nerds, Podictionary
 - Spread the word about the American Literature Review Podcast!

 - Music Credits, used with permission from artists themselves:
   - Intro/Outro: “With Hands And Feet (Novel 23)” by Multiplex. Visit them at http://www.multiplexmusic.co.uk/
   - Backtrack: “Are You That Retail Snob?” by Aspen, Bevan Smith’s original Involve project. Web him at http://www.involve.co.nz/aspen.html

Thanks!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:58:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <itunes:block>yes</itunes:block>
      <itunes:author>Prabjit and Jared</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[- In this podcast we’ll cover the why, what, and who the show’s for. We’re podcasting about classic American Literature.
 - Round of Introductions – Prabjit and Jared
 - We only cover novels. No plays, short stories, really recent novels, pop novels (Grisham)...

 - Web Resources:
   - Podcast Email – americanlitreview@gmail.com
   - Our blog – http://americanlitereview.blogspot.com has our show notes, past shows, and weekly links to book sites.
   - Podcast directories – find us everywhere
   - Please donate through PAYPAL if you totally love our efforts to get these books more exposure. Thanks!
   - http://www.flickr.com/groups/amerlitreview – post pictures of where you live and read!

 - Directories we’re in:
   - PodcastPickle.com, PodcastingNews.com, Odeo.com, PodcastAlley.com, and iTunes and Yahoo podcasts.

 - Current Links (suggest one and we’ll post it) - Modern Library, Penguin USA, NPR: books, Half.com, Audiobooksforfree.com
 - http://www.frappr.com/americanlitreview – Put in your zip code and join our map
 - Bookstores - Bookman’s, Bookstop, Barnes and Nobles, Borders
 - Authors on our List - Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wharton, Hemingway…

 - Show format – 4 shows per book
   - 1st show – Author and novel background, which editions we’ll be using
   - 2nd show – Plot, setting, situations.
   - 3rd show – Theme, Symbolism, Motifs
   - 4th show – Rate the book!, what we take away from it, comparisons with other works, and introduce next novel

 - Podcasts I recommend: More Hip Than Hippie, The Vegan Cooking School, Movies You Should See, VeryVocabulary, The Word Nerds, Podictionary
 - Spread the word about the American Literature Review Podcast!

 - Music Credits, used with permission from artists themselves:
   - Intro/Outro: “With Hands And Feet (Novel 23)” by Multiplex. Visit them at http://www.multiplexmusic.co.uk/
   - Backtrack: “Are You That Retail Snob?” by Aspen, Bevan Smith’s original Involve project. Web him at http://www.involve.co.nz/aspen.html

Thanks!]]></itunes:summary>
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