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		<title>If you don&#8217;t watch &#8220;Lost&#8221;, read no further, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I would just like to submit that I am of the opinion tonight&#8217;s episode will reveal the show is all about FATHERHOOD, which has been dimly hinted in the cases of Jin and Claire, but this theme is actually also about the OLDER PEOPLE FOR REELS and that the wayward children of Jack, Locke and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better you should hear it in a normal tone of voice&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;than at a screaming pitch, followed by a smashed anything.
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		<title>Must stop listening to election news AND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boldtype&#8217;s latest issue is Portraits.
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		<title>Whatever happened to Crescent Dragonwagon?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just FYI, Fine Lines, my column on vintage YA lit for the website Jezebel, has been continuing apace. It&#8217;s interesting; I remain mystified at which columns receive larger reactions and which have a smaller readership, mainly because, starting at age 7 with Are You There, God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret I did nothing but read and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cornivore&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been so obsessed with the global food crisis resulting from our farmland turnover to crops for environmentally and financially devastating corn-based ethanol that I completely forget there was some winnin&#8217; to be done in the matter of some free books, to the tune of 47 votes! Damn, people. (Who knew that the practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ivy Lede: Or, Stop Entering Your Own Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had many wonderful entries for our David Samuels giveaway, where the challenge was to find a name for when book reviewers talk about themselves for, like, eight hours before sidling around to the book in question, though generally not before mentioning that they graduated Yale in 1995, Pierson College, no laude but their history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginner&#8217;s Greek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginner&#8217;s Greek
 If I ever inaugurate an unintentionally dirty-sounding e-review series called &#8220;Straight to the author&#8217;s inbox,&#8221; the first one will be to James Collins, and it will read, &#8220;Hey James, how&#8217;s it going? LOVED THE FIRST HALF OF YOUR NOVEL! xo talk soon L.&#8221; (Note to all the publications who&#8217;ve cut their book reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If It&#8217;s April, It Must Be Giveaway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve finally emerged from the flu-ish, globally warmed welter of mid-to-late winter&#8211; ready, as always, to divest myself of worldly goods as quickly as possible. First up is a lovely giveaway from journalist and author David Samuels, who does not yet have a functioning website! I find that admirable. (In the meantime, you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton: Proving You Wrong Since 1993</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Clift? Hebert? That&#8217;s you, Bob? Alter? Uh, ALTER? RICH? (Yeah, DOWD. I&#8217;m looking at you. EVERYONE has to always look at you.) And all you other people for whom &#8220;step aside&#8221; and &#8220;gracefully&#8221; had a very different meaning.
Thanks for playing.
NOW&#8211;
STFU!
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		<title>&#8220;remember, the books are your friends, not your enemy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sincerely doubt anyone who comes here was thinking about voting for Ron Paul, but this is simply one of the funniest political assassinations I have read in years.
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