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		<title>Book News for Friday, November 20, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's Hits: oprah calls it quits. new moon rises. lost in february. and more.

 Au Revoir, Oprah: In news that's guaranteed to send publishers into convulsions of horror, Oprah Winfrey is announcing on today's episode that she is folding up her talk show.
Wipe away those tears, Oprah fans: she's turning her attention toward an entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes a Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon, I was in a severe anti-social mode. I wasn't surprised, as it typically happens for this work-at-home freelance writer after an action-packed trip away. Ever since I returned on Sunday, I've retreated further and further into my home office, not wanting to talk to anyone. The only time I did venture out into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=10476</link>
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		<title>The Age of Wonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Reviewed by Benjamin Moser
Harper's Magazine
Richard Holmes's monumental The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon, $40) opens in 1769, when the dashing young millionaire Joseph Banks alighted on Tahiti, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News for Thursday, November 19, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's Hits: national book award winners. nabokov's last book. (and his old ones redesigned.) sex and the city goes back to school. and more.

 Let the Book Awards Spin: Last night Colum McCann won the National Book Award for fiction with his novel Let the Great World Spin.
In accepting the award, the Irish-born Mr. McCann, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3674</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Friending and Unfriending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent announcement of the word unfriend winning "word of the year" by the New Oxford American Dictionary (
by  the way, isn't it called de-friending?by the way, isn't it called de-friending?) made me think about some of the ways Facebook has changed my friendships for the better…
* I've found long-lost friends. I fully realize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3506</link>
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		<title>Finding John Irving: The Powells.com Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's note: The following is a reprint of our 2005 interview with John Irving, whose new novel, Last Night in Twisted River, has just come out in hardcover. Click here to get signed editions while they last!]
On one list are the books you like to recommend. You want to turn someone on to your favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of Ahmet Ertu&#287;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If stunning photography and stylish book design rock your world, you probably already own a selection of Taschen publications. Taschen is bold, brassy, and very, very German. 
In Istanbul, three thousand miles from Taschen's home turf, the house of Ertu&#287; and Kocabiyik has produced some of the most beautiful large format, limited edition photography books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s 10 A.M., Have You Sent a Letter Today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now I've blabbed about how the P.S. book has brought contributors and their friends together (including my own reunions). Now what do I have up my sleeve, you wonder? For my third blog post, I wanted to address a question people often ask me about the book: Why letters? Why are they unsent? Okay, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=10288</link>
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		<title>Book News for Tuesday, November 17, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's Hits: the dictionary gets unfriendly. palin's rogue facts. from here to eternity too gay? a graphic demise for coffee table publisher. and more.

 The Unfriendliest Year: The New Oxford American Dictionary has selected its Word of the Year &#8212; which seems a little unfair, as a truly awe-inspiring new word still has about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3579</link>
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		<title>Black Sheep Can Still Learn New Tricks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I tell people that I was in a sorority in college (which is admittedly pretty rare), they assume I'm the type of person who refers to 100 people as my "sisters." 
Instead, I was the one who would fall asleep during initiation ceremonies, roll my eyes when we'd recite our little chants (or whatever [...]]]></description>
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