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		<title>Seven Books That Actually Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Hanagarne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd predict that 99 percent of the small talk in the staff elevator at my library involves the following question and its answers: "Are you reading anything good?" Most recently I asked this of a woman holding The Poisonwood Bible, which I adored. "Yes!" she said, waving the book in front of me. "I'm almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top Five Reasons You Should Love Monsters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Roellke Coddington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Rachel Roellke Coddington and Jolby will present their book at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing on Wednesday, May 15, at 7:00 p.m. Greetings, adventurers! As you travel the evergreen roadways of the Pacific Northwest, you may find yourself in contact with many intriguing monsters. Let our book, Monsters under Bridges, be a guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Clarify Butter: A Writer&#8217;s Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cooking and Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Lee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chefs don't have time to write. While I was working on Smoke and Pickles, I was running a restaurant &#8212; a daily regimen of testing recipes, arguing with purveyors, and greeting guests that left little time for introspection. I wrote nights mostly, battling fatigue and the impending noise of sunrise. During the day, I gravitated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trails We&#8217;ve Tread</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Bell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They have been on the move for the past half-year or so now, starting from their longtime home in the downstairs closet, on to my desk, then to my office floor, upstairs into another closet, back down next to my desk, then back upstairs. I am supposed to get rid of them; Amy almost has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/the-dark-side-2-by-urban-waite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Waite</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every night after I finish work, I sit down to write this essay, and every night I fail. And failure, believe it or not, is one of the best things that can happen to a writerfailure, believe it or not, is one of the best things that can happen to a writer. Trying to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making It Up as We Go Along</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/making-it-up-as-we-go-along-by-jen-van-meter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Van Meter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, when I was in graduate school, I joined a writers' group. It was an informal workshop in which we intended to help each other finish and improve works of fiction then in progress. It didn't last long. If I'm perfectly honest, it was a washout. I know writers who swear by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Became a Gamer and a Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/how-i-became-a-gamer-and-a-writer-by-django-wexler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/how-i-became-a-gamer-and-a-writer-by-django-wexler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Django Wexler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the story of how I became a writer, which is also the story of how I became a tabletop gamer. It starts around when I entered high school. I'd always been a geek, but before high school my preferred outlet was reading fantasy and science fiction, with a leavening of video games. (This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching The Shelter Cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/approaching-the-shelter-cycle-by-peter-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Rock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was being driven up some steep gravel roads in a pickup truck, above Paradise Valley, in Montana. This was back in 2007. Below, the Yellowstone River snaked back and forth, Highway 89 running parallel. The driver of the truck was a man I'd just met, a friend of a friend; somewhat taciturn, he didn't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragments of Pandemonium</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/fragments-of-pandemonium-by-warren-fahy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Fahy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Popular Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of biologists stumbles upon a two-mile-wide crater on an isolated island, and there they discover a whole new world of unprecedented species, including fanged frogs, giant rats, and tree-climbing kangaroos that evolved in isolation over millions of years. It sounds like the plot of my first thriller, Fragment, but it actually happened only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Journals: The Art and Craft of Repetition</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/my-journals-the-art-and-craft-of-repetition-by-terry-tempest-williams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Tempest Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To write is to breathe. I don't think about it. It's like oxygen. But if you take it away from me, I will suffocate. I need the blank page as the landscape upon which I stand, to think, ponder, consider, rant, rave, reveal, question, and explore where I have been, what I have done, and [...]]]></description>
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