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		<title>Sex Tips for Authors (Well, What Authors Trade Instead of Sex Tips)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Leveen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's note: Please join us at our Burnside location tonight at 7:30, where Lois Leveen will be presenting her new novel The Secrets of Mary Bowser. Click here for full event information.] Wayyyyy back in October, I found out my novel The Secrets of Mary Bowser would be published on May 15. But it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of a Red Tractor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Leveen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear of a red tractor. That is what keeps a novelist up at night. Remember the good ol' days when barber, surgeon, and dentist was a single occupation? Okay, maybe those days weren't so good. But at least back then, the dentist was probably too busy to be a literary critic, too. My dentist, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How We Assembled Indiespensable #33</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Panjandrums</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leni Zumas's debut novel, The Listeners, hit us like a bolt of lightning. Arch, witty, intelligent, impressionistic, hypnotic, and above all dazzlingly written, we couldn't put this deeply moving and disquieting book down. Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, raves, "Just listen to The Listeners. You'll hear the prose of one of our most exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging a Book by Its Brazilian</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Leveen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We're giving you a French flap," my publisher said. "That's fantastic!" I said. Then I immediately Googled "French flap." Which it turns out is not, as I feared, some new variant on a Brazilian wax. A French flap is a fancy-pants design in which the cover includes an extra folded bit on each side, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&amp;A: Mark Kurlansky</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kurlansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest book. It is titled Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man, and it is coming out in May from Doubleday. This is the first ever autobiography of Clarence Birdseye, the man who developed the frozen food industry. Birdseye could be called a foodie in that he thought about food constantly. Every letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot-Wiring Nancy Pearl&#8217;s Sedan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Leveen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To an author, librarians are superheroes. First, they are incredible sources when we are researching and writing. Then, they are vital connectors for helping readers find our finished books. And if librarians in general are superheroes, Nancy Pearl is the superduperhero, the librarian so cool she has her own action figure. So when Nancy Pearl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Circus</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/shelf-talkers/the-night-circus-by-dianahh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dianah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Touted as an adult's version of Harry Potter, The Night Circus actually lives up to its hype. It's the story of a couple of magicians, a circus, and a duel. And, of course, it's so much more. Morgenstern's creation is astounding and intricate, delicate and beautiful, frightening and overwhelming. Though torn between the contrary desires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50 Mile Bouquet</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/shelf-talkers/the-50-mile-bouquet-by-toveh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every February, supermarket floral departments overflow with a seemingly endless supply of nondescript red roses... but have you ever stopped to wonder where they all come from? Chances are, not from anywhere near where you live. Most "factory flowers," favored for their uniformity and durability, are grown overseas (often under lax environmental and labor laws) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a Novel Happens</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/guests/how-a-novel-happens-by-lois-leveen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Leveen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn't know I was going to be a novelist. Or a Civil War Enthusiast. So how did this happen? The embarrassing thing is that I now own both the Playmobil Civil War set, and several volumes from that Time-Life Civil War set you see in the background. Some years ago &#8212; never mind how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Friends the Gulls</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-friends-the-gulls-by-matt-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-friends-the-gulls-by-matt-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Love</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some six or seven years ago, I heard a story about an employee of a coastal restaurant who beat a one-legged gull to death with a stick out back of the establishment. Apparently the gull served as the establishment's mascot, and for whatever reason, if sociopathic behavior can be said to have logical reasons, the [...]]]></description>
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