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				<title>Man Booker Longlist Unveiled...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[  I went to a luncheon for Emma Donoghue and wrote about ROOM in my “report from BEA" earlier this summer. I was thrilled to see her novel on the Man Booker longlist... more on the list here.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:20:54 -0500</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Cai Pandolfino</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>A big hug for Sara Gruen...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Check out this cute pic of our September 23rd luncheon guest, Sara Gruen....! ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:09:56 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Dead End Gene Pool</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ I giggled just reading the review of this book, so thought I'd pass it along. NPR call it a "Laugh Out Loud Summer Book". Wendy Burden's memoir of growing up Vanderbilt "features prose as sparkling and refreshing as sand and water"... more. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:55:07 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Woody Allen says it all...again.</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Woody Allen: 'No Substitute for Reading & There Never Will Be' ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:27:58 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The Curious Nonscientist and the Case for Summer Science Reading</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ I have a recurring nightmare about a physics class i took almost 20 years ago, and a general aversion to anything that requires an exam, a proof, or a lab instead of a paper.  That said, I was intrigued by this newest list of summer's best science books from NPR: "five engrossing summer releases that will satisfy anyone from a curious nonscientist to a biochemist eager to refresh her mind with new ideas in neuroscience." Check these out...

Suggestions titles: Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D., How to Defeat Your Own Clone... and Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution by Kyle Kurpinsky and Terry D. Johnson, and Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality by Jonathan Weiner. 
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:50:24 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Caldwell Video &amp; Greun Save the Date (9/23!)</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ To the women who read: 
The video of Literary Matters’ luncheon for Gail Caldwell has just been posted. Please share this with friends and family.  
And please reserve Thursday, September 23rd, for a luncheon with Sara Gruen, author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS and APE HOUSE, her new novel that will be published at the beginning of September.  The Gruen luncheon will be from 11-2 at Innis Arden.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:03:25 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Southern Reading</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ My book groups boasts a handful of genteel ladies from the South, and their perspective on our readings - especially those set in states below the Mason-Dixon line, is always illuminating.  Whether nostalgic or just as a salve to the slightly less genteel way of life that they endure here in New England, these ladies often bring the works of Southern writers to the table. I am offering up a few more... these are this years SIBA winners, which honor books "either set in the South or by a southern author (or both!)" and sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance: 

Children's: The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass (Candlewick)
Cooking: The Lee Brothers Simple Fresh Southern by Ted and Matt Lee (Clarkson Potter)
Fiction: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam)
Nonfiction: The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg (Macadam Cage)   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:11:22 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Fiction for the Business Minded...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ As we gear up for our event with William Cohan this fall, i thought this article would be of particular interest.  William Taylor of Fast Company magazine did a survey of leading minds in the world of business, asking what reading they do to challenge and inspire their perspectives.  Check out the article here... ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:53:46 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Esther Does BEA</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Belated BEA report—because it took me days to unpack my bag, organize my thoughts, and synthesize all that took place! ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:31:13 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>2010 Guardian Childrens' Ficton Prize Nominees</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Guardian children's fiction prize celebrates eight wonderful books for children who love magic, mystery, wonder, adventure, doing the impossible and understanding the past. They show the power of story to propel children into other lives and other times; to be brave and kind; to dream and wonder. Perfectly pitched, they see how things may look from a child's point of view and, in doing so, show exactly why reading is such a pleasure. This years' nominees include,  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:16:06 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>James Beard Award Winners </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The James Beard Award Winners were announced Monday. Congratulations to Greenwich resident Colman Andrews, winner: Cookbook of the Year for his The Country Cooking of Ireland. More... ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:47:37 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Happy Birthday Ms Drew</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[  A belated happy birthday to girl detective Nancy Drew, who turned 80 last week.  Entertainment Weekly’s Shelf Life blog noted that “her influence is global.  Nancy Drew books are published in 25 languages and have sold 20 million copies worldwide.” ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:38:47 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2009</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2009. The  Prizes were awarded April 23, 2010, in a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building....

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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:41:25 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Orange Prize Winners Announced</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for fiction written by women features two debut novelists as well as "the seemingly unstoppable might of Hilary Mantel and Wolf Hall," the Guardian <http://news.shelf-awareness.com/ct.jsp?uz5061754Biz9451922> reported. The winner will be honored June 9 in London. And the finalists are...

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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:16:37 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title> WHAT TO DO [WHEN NO ONE HAS A CLUE]</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ 
Stevie Pierson has done it again!  Not only have she and Barbara Harrison zeroed in on all of the current questions and situations we've been clueless about in our changing techno-global world, but she's gone to the experts for the answers!  
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				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:35:58 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced!</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Pulitzer Prize for distinguished fiction by an American author, (preferably dealing with American life) has been awarded to “Tinkers,” by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press), a powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Love in Infant Monkeys,” by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press), an imaginative collection of linked stories, often describing a memorable encounter between a famous person and an animal, underscoring the human folly of longing for significance while chasing trifles, and “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company), a collection of beautifully crafted stories that exposes the Western reader to the hopes, dreams and dramas of an array of characters in feudal Pakistan, resulting in both an aesthetic and cultural achievement. 
More winners,,, ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:19:26 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>One Day University</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ I‘m totally and utterly predictable... Every time I hear from a former student in college, my response is always the same: " I wish that I were in college." Now there's a solution to my situation. A fellow Tufts alum, Steven Schragis, got the idea for One Day University about four years ago when he was visiting his daughter, a freshman at Bard. There were about 700 parents there, Steve said, and they all had the same response that I have. One Day University is a Saturday or Sunday when four popular professors from top universities each present a 70 minute lecture. Registration includes a boxed lunch, coffee and cookies; there's no homework, no tests, and no admission essays. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:52:34 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Opening lines of books we want to read:

It's a testament to his libido, if not his character, that Cornelius Vanderbilt died of syphilis instead of apoplexy.

In 1794, a few miles from where his powdered bones eternally lie, within the eight-foot-thick walls of the largest tomb ever built in America, the origin of my family's fortune was born into what would prove to be a very material world. As the sixth of nine children, Cornelius was expected to pull his weight. At eleven he had dropped out of school, and at sixteen he was piloting his own small ferryboat. At nineteen he married his cousin Sophia Jackson (an act of consanguinity that arguably heralded the start of our genetic troubles) and set about fathering the first of thirteen children. By twenty-one the Vanderbilt name was on several schooners, and by thirty-five Cornelius has earned the sobriquet of commodore and controlled a network of steamboat routes that traveled up and down the East Coast. At seventy he had the wherewithal to switch from steamships to railroads. And at seventy-five he eloped to Canada to marry a thirty-one-year old woman named Frank.--Selected by Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:38:22 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Sherman Alexie's War Dances (Grove Press) won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Al Young, who served on the panel of judges with Rilla Askew and Kyoko Mori, said, "War Dances taps every vein and nerve, every tissue, every issue that quickens the current blood-pulse: parenthood, divorce, broken links, sex, gender and racial conflict, substance abuse, medical neglect, 9/11, Official Narrative vs. What Really Happened, settler religion vs. native spirituality; marketing, shopping, and war, war, war. All the heartbreaking ways we don't live now--this is the caring, eye-opening beauty of this rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book." ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:29:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>National Books Critics Circle Awards Announced!</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards were presented Thursday evening: And the winners are...
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				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:57:14 -0600</pubDate>
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