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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Ben Dolnick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dolnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. My latest novel is called At the Bottom of Everything, and it's about two men in their mid-20s, one of whom goes off the rails and disappears in India, the other of whom tries to find him and bring him home. What fictional character would you like to date and why? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a Book Buyer: Borges, Klosterman, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Powell's Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Powell's, our book buyers select all the new books in our vast inventory. If we need a book recommendation, we turn to our team of resident experts. Need a gift idea for a fan of vampire novels? Looking for a guide that will best demonstrate how to knit argyle socks? Need a book for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell’s Q&amp;A: Susanna Daniel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[andre dubus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Sherry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. My second novel, Sea Creatures, spans one summer in the lives of Georgia Quillian, her parasomniac husband, Graham (more on parasomnia later), and their three-year-old son, Frankie, who has recently stopped verbalizing. Like Stiltsville, my first novel, Sea Creatures is set partially at a house built on stilts in the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a Book Buyer: The Divine Comedy, Crime Fiction, All That Jazz, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Powell's Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alastair Reynolds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Powell's, our book buyers select all the new books in our vast inventory. If we need a book recommendation, we turn to our team of resident experts. Need a gift idea for a fan of vampire novels? Looking for a guide that will best demonstrate how to knit argyle socks? Need a book for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Kate Christensen</title>
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		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-kate-christensen-by-kate-christensen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Christensen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cooking and Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Christensen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. Blue Plate Special is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject. I wanted to write a food book for many years, partially in homage to the great M. F. K. Fisher, whose books had sustained me through dark and lonely times. As I started to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell’s Q&amp;A: Peter J. Steinberger</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-peter-j-steinberger-by-peter-j-steinberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter J. Steinberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. I am a political philosopher by training and profession. All of my previous books have been scholarly monographs written not simply for an audience of scholars but a pretty narrow audience of scholars at that. I have now written something completely and entirely different, namely, a book &#8212; The Problem with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell’s Q&amp;A: Michael Marder</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-michael-marder-by-michael-marder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-michael-marder-by-michael-marder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Marder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Marder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did. In fact, a philosophy of plant life is a multivolume undertaking. Besides Plant-Thinking, it will include a book titled The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium, slated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Augusten Burroughs</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-augusten-burroughs-by-augusten-burroughs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-augusten-burroughs-by-augusten-burroughs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Augusten Burroughs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Augusten Burroughs will present his new book at Powell's City of Books on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. Describe your latest book. This Is How is a guide of sorts for showing people how they can survive, overcome, achieve, or free themselves of things they think they can't. The book arose from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Fiona Maazel</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-fiona-maazel-by-fiona-maazel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-fiona-maazel-by-fiona-maazel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Maazel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. My new book, Woke Up Lonely, is about a cult leader, his ex-wife, and the four people he takes hostage. It's about loneliness in America. North Korea. A city underneath the city of Cincinnati. Cloud seeding. Espionage. Eavesdropping. It's also, you know, a big-old love story. Does that describe it adequately? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Donna Freitas</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-donna-freitas-by-donna-freitas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/powells-qa-donna-freitas-by-donna-freitas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Freitas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book/project/work. My most recent nonfiction book, The End of Sex, is most definitely not about how sex is "over" &#8212; though I keep getting questions about why I'm saying this is the case. My academic background is in philosophy, theology, and gender, and when we talk about "ends" in those fields, we [...]]]></description>
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