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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Augusten Burroughs</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Kelly Sue DeConnick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Sue DeConnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book/project/work. I write the Avengers Assemble and Captain Marvel comic books at Marvel and Ghost at Dark Horse. My first creator-owned book &#8212; a gothic western called Pretty Deadly &#8212; is coming out from Image Comics later this year. What's the strangest or most interesting job you've ever had? I've done everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: R. A. Salvatore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R. A. Salvatore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest works. I have two Forgotten Realms novels coming out this year, along with a graphic novel about a relevant side story. The first book, The Last Threshold, was just released in March to wind up the four-book Neverwinter Saga. In this series, I explored the issue of my hero, Drizzt, falling in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Patton Oswalt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patton Oswalt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of Geek Week, Powells.com presents a special Dungeons and Dragons&#8211;themed Q&#038;A with Patton Oswalt. What's the most epic character you've ever created? A half-orc assassin named Ulvaak through which I channeled all of my frustrations about being a fat eighth grader. Apparently I wanted to split everything in half with a sword. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Andrew Hackard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hackard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest game/project/work. Right now, we're in the middle of playtesting Munchkin Pathfinder. The Pathfinder RPG, from Paizo, is one of the most popular fantasy role-playing games on the market, and its rules and setting provide a rich background to draw from for the next Munchkin card game. "Playtesting," for those who don't know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell’s Q&amp;A: Jennifer Haigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Haigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. News from Heaven is a collection of 10 short stories set in and around Bakerton, the western Pennsylvania coal town that was the setting for my second novel, Baker Towers. What's the strangest or most interesting job you've ever had? Cleaning office buildings at night. Offer a favorite sentence or passage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Julianna Baggott</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/qa/julianna-baggott-by-julianna-baggott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julianna Baggott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. Fuse is the second installment in the Pure Trilogy, which follows a group of characters in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian world. In the first novel, Pressia, a 16-year-old girl with a doll head fused to her fist, is surviving in this detonated, ash-choked world, and Partridge has survived inside of a protective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Karen Russell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. My latest book is a short story collection called Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Many of the stories are about monstrous metamorphoses &#8212; teenaged bullies in New Jersey, captive Japanese women converted into factory machinery, vampires in recovery. Human subjects converted into objects by violence. What fictional character would you like [...]]]></description>
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