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						<title><![CDATA[A Better Trade]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[When I decided to walk away from a 14-year career in investment banking to write a novel, I figured I knew what to expect: a devastating pay cut and the possibility that I would fail to write a good book.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[A Call for Publishers, Libraries to Work Together]]></title>
						<link>http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/57707-a-call-for-publishers-libraries-to-work-together.html</link>
							<description><![CDATA[The way people read is changing.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Summer Is for Readers]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[As soon as San Francisco delivers its first stretch of warm spring days (as it’s doing, gloriously, right now), I start itching for Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff of summer—or, as I think of it, Reading Season. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Getting to Why]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Writing a book is an act of self-revelation, whether or not you mean it to be, and then once the thing is published you face a second act: self-explanation.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: The Future of Libraries]]></title>
						<link>http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/nancy-pearl/article/57306-check-it-out-with-nancy-pearl-the-future-of-libraries.html</link>
							
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						<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[My Agent]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[On a rare day of high-wattage sunshine that momentarily denuded the stygian gloom that is London in late winter, I spent an interesting hour at my U.K. publishers—Random House—listening to the sales and marketing team strategizing for the imminent publication of my 11th novel, Five Days. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Core Concerns]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[If the Common Core fails, what comes next?<br>]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Tinkering with the Future]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Progress surrounds us. We land rovers on distant planets. Satellites and wires that we will never see or touch allow us to connect with anyone anywhere. And we can read great literature on our phones—or play with pigs in space.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Mixing It Up]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Reflections on a saloon-turned-bookstore's former life. Plus a cocktail recipe especially for booksellers.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Stress-Testing a Hybrid Publishing Model]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I set out to use the tools of self-publishing to release my new novel, The Thief of Auschwitz, as much as possible in the manner of a traditional publishing house.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Tap-Dancing Authors]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Where does one acquire the skills the successful author now needs: ragtime piano, snake handling, banjo picking, or Indian classical dance? This is a serious question for writers in an age when self-promotion has become all-important.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[How Do I Love Thee?]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[To say that my mother loved poetry does not do her justice. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Books on Education]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Waking the Dead]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[When novelists resurrect the dead for a work of fiction, research is critical, but it’s only a starting point. Breathing life into a historical figure requires an elusive second step.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Reality Check]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[It’s January 2011 and I’m in a school auditorium in Ardsley, N.Y., standing in the aisle in front of 60 seventh-graders, reading from I Represent Sean Rosen, my first attempt at writing a novel.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[All About the Book]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Today marks one year since I quit my day job as a bookseller. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: Awards Season and Carnegie Longlist]]></title>
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						<pubDate>, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[I love music but I can’t play it.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Discovery Begins on Authors’ Homepages]]></title>
						<link>http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/56181-discovery-begins-on-authors-homepages.html</link>
							<description><![CDATA[For most authors the worst fate is to be ignored, and they spend long hours promoting themselves and their books on social media to make sure that doesn’t happen. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[I Can't Let You Do That, Dave]]></title>
						<link>http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/56013-i-can-t-let-you-do-that-dave.html</link>
							<description><![CDATA[In my new novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother, I explore what happens to people when their computers don’t listen to them anymore.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Overcoming Four Words That Can Chill]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Mike Joachim is the book buyer at the Paper Store. He’s previously worked for Hudson Group airport stores, Learningsmith, Interstate Distributors, and BJ’s Wholesale Clubs.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Books on the Balkans]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Q: While many of us were busy preparing to travel to Seattle for ALA Midwinter, I see by your tweets and Facebook posts recently that you’ve been in Bosnia meeting librarians, teachers, and students. Can you tell us more about what you did there? ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Double Duty]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Trebor Healey is novelist whose previous books include Through It Came Bright Colors, a selection of the InsightOut Book Club and the winner of the Violet Quill Award and the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Fewer Books: A Rescue Plan for Barnes & Noble]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[After administering the oath of office to Vice-President Joe Biden, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rushed to New York for an appearance at Barnes & Noble, because, Jon Stewart said, “She wasn’t sure it would be there later.”]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Piracy Reality Check]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[How I Broke My Chuck Klosterman Curse]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Most writers seem to have self-doubt genetically encoded into their beings.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Overcoming the YA Obsession]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[All of us face that moment... The moment when you’re asked to do something you don’t want to do, and you have to make a decision: move forward with their way, or build your own highway.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow: How Writers Lose When 'Piracy' Gets Harder]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Guidelines for Book Groups]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[A 2,000-Plus-Page Dictionary Teaches a Lesson]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[My dictionary has always been a springboard for inspiration, especially when I’m in the early, just-thinking stages of a project.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[To Tweak or Not to Tweak]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Recently, I traveled back in time 30 years or so, where I met my younger self.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Who Knows Best: Author or Publisher?]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Some time last March, my brand-name publisher and I hit a major roadblock. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[What I Learned from James Patterson]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[I’ve been lucky enough to write with James Patterson for the past two and a half years. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[When I tell people about my book club—started by my mother, held at the local community center, and open to the public—the conversation sometimes grinds to a halt, ending in a semi-uninterested, “That’s so sweet, you and your mom.”]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[As you read this 750-word essay, I’ll be taking a nap. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The theme of our Midwinter coverage is “Resolutions,” as we get ready to say good-bye to 2012 and embark on a new year.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of discussion, predictions, and all kinds of rumblings since the recent announcement of the upcoming merger of Random House and the Penguin Group. ]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[Award season is here and along with the celebrations come the mutterings and complaints. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[“What do the Amish think about your books?” That question gets tossed at me whenever I’m at a book event, and the answer isn’t all that surprising.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[Books and conversations about them have always been an important part of my life. Reading books provides us with the opportunity to reflect, immerse ourselves in cultures beyond our own borders, and affords us the occasion to consider ourselves in the context of the generations who have come before. ]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[An old adage says the role of literature is to delight and to instruct, but contemporary novels often seem more intent on instruction than pleasure. It’s a confusion of veracity with authenticity, a reluctance to let a novelist’s research stay where it belongs—in the background of the book, if it’s in the book at all.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[When the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced in the early morning of October 11, I met the news with worry.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[We’ve always had a problem with “fake.” Whether it was a fake Kate Spade handbag or a knockoff clothing line, fake has always been a part of our culture. Most of us can spot fake. Fake, however, is not limited to fashion anymore. Fake and counterfeit have begun to permeate the publishing industry. We’ve seen knockoff titles like 35 Shades of Grey, but now there’s a new wrinkle: fake reviews. Studies have shown that most people used to believe consumer reviews. Not so much anymore, especially when reviews can be bought, or in some cases, simply faked. The message seems to be: if you want to get noticed, you’d better be prepared to “fake it.”]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The future of native apps, those created for a particular platform, is becoming more and more questionable as publishers start to realize the benefits of HTML5 to their bottom line and to the consumers’ user experience in terms of being able to access their content on any device. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[On a February evening in 2010, I stood in an oversized, overheated exercise studio in lower Manhattan. From my vantage point near the corner, I gaped as a sea of people—mostly women in their 20s and 30s—balanced exquisitely on the ball of one foot: thigh crossed over thigh, foot wrapped around ankle, arms intertwined before their chests. Suddenly, in unison, they descended into a perfect, unwavering, one-legged squat.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The year I became a literary agent, an independent press published my first children’s book. Now, seven years later, the same press has published my second children’s book. But this is not a column about an agent who is learning how tough it is to be an author. This is about something else.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[When I signed my debut novel, The Angels’ Share, with Winter Goose, a small press, I knew that a healthy share of marketing and promotion would be my responsibility. Not a huge surprise—small houses don’t have a lot of resources to throw at literary fiction. But what was surprising was that when I spoke with others who’d signed with larger publishers, I kept hearing that unless their book was “Big” (and sometimes even if it was), the authors still had to do most of the nitty-gritty publicity themselves.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Although the Apple, Macmillan, and Penguin lawsuit is still pending, now that the court has approved the Department of Justice settlement terms with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster and the termination of their agency pricing contracts, all publishers will no doubt be revisiting their e-book pricing models.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[In 1987, when I was an undergraduate, I was browsing in a bookshop in Cambridge, England, when a book (one copy, spine out, on a shelf in the back of the store) caught my eye: Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler by Trudi Kanter. It was a self-published memoir which, unusually for such a thing, had made its way into a mainstream bookshop—I can only imagine that the title had caught the buyer’s attention, as it had mine.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[If the folks at Merriam-Webster were to declare a word of the year for the book publishing industry in 2011, it would have been discoverability. The closing of Borders, the declining number of subscribers to print periodicals, and the increase in precise keyword search to find titles had everyone wondering how readers would now find all the books published.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[I came to the United States in 1996 on a scholarship that sent me to Buffalo, N.Y. I was eager to take a creative writing class, something that didn’t exist in Germany, and so I started writing fiction and poetry in English. My Austrian roommate and I agreed to stop speaking German to each other. I kept family calls to a minimum, purged all German books and magazines from the house, and read Kafka in English translation. Memories of past conversations came to me translated—my parents admonished and scolded in perfect English.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised when something peculiar happened in my seventh year as an editor at Orca Book Publishers. After all, seven is a magical number in fairy tales, and Orca is a children’s book publisher. There are seven continents, seven oceans, seven Harry Potter books. So, Why not a series of kids books about seven cousins? When my publisher, Andrew Wooldridge, asked me to edit “the magnificent seven,” my first question was “How many are we going to publish per season?” His answer: “All seven in October 2012.” I wanted to yell, “Are you insane?” but that’s not the kind of thing you say to your boss.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[It was 1998, the dark ages in publishing.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to say what’s more shocking to me: the temerity of Hachette to attempt to dictate terms to its rivals on the use of anti-customer technology, or the evidence-free insistence that DRM has some nexus with improving the commercial fortunes of writers and their publishers. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[As publicity director at three well-known presses and a book industry professional for over 15 years, it perplexes me a bit that topics once exclusive to industry insiders (and still almost exclusively addressed solely by publishers per standardized procedures, mechanisms, and even contractual agreements) are now being bandied about on author blogs, author Twitter feeds, and even via author-written articles on trade news sites. Being an avid reader and a huge admirer of authors—make no mistake about it, they’re a primary reason why I’ve devoted my career to doing what I do—the present online-I-can-say-anything-because-I’m-a-published-author environment we now live in makes me a little disappointed.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[It seems marketing books in the 21st century is harder than ever. There are fewer bookstores to reach out to, and so much shopping is done online. How can a publisher help launch a first novel from a promising writer? Like we did way back in the 20th century, we provide advance reading copies to reviewers, sales reps, and key buyers. We use more modern methods—making e-ARCs available, reaching out to bloggers, and using Facebook and Twitter to connect directly with consumers.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[My first novel, Ten Girls to Watch, comes out July 31. The last few months I worked on it were heavenly. I spent my days fixing sentences and making tiny plot tweaks, swapping thoughts and revisions with my wonderful editor, Sarah Cantin. She seemed to like my every change almost as much as I liked hers, and even the smallest of our adjustments felt like vast improvements. The book got so much better. We reveled in it. But that was then, and now, instead of the end, I’m back at the beginning, starting novel number two. How exciting! How terrible.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[As the downward pressure on e-book prices continues to increase, publishers should pause long enough to realize that there is no need to have a race to the bottom, to the free e-book. Publishers themselves really are the ones to blame for the emerging pricing situation, as they continue to treat e-books like digital replicas of print books, doing quick text-to-digital conversions, which typically don’t even offer the same capabilities as the print versions—try sharing your latest great e-book with a friend. It’s no wonder the consumer value perception of e-books is in question.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[When your publisher puts up the dough to send you on a 20-city national book tour, they’re expecting you to transform yourself from a hermitic wordsmith into a traveling salesman.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[Listening to your readers is a good thing to do. Trying to please them all is something else entirely.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[When my first book was published, I decided not to read the reviews. Why give strangers the power to uplift or shatter my spirits? I’d take the high road, the spiritual path. Actually, I was terrified of the media interviews to come and knew they’d be hard enough to muscle through without someone’s criticisms swirling in my head.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[Like many bookstores aboard the Titanic of independent bookselling, the Mysterious Bookshop hit the Amazon iceberg a few years ago. More accurately, it hit us, and we’ve been doing everything short of throwing women and children out of lifeboats, to avoid drowning in the icy waters of insolvency.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[I miss Ayn Rand. Actually, I miss her voice in my new book. And I blame copyright law.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The stage is set for a daddy-fiction movement. It’s time for dads to say what they need to say about child care, stereotypes, and other dads who won’t change dirty diapers. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Lloyd Jassin is an intellectual property attorney who writes on contract, copyright, and trademark issues affecting the book publishing industry. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Pity the poor antipiracy pitchman. Digital media means perfect copying, and most pirate goods are now of comparable quality to the official release, and often superior to the commercial alternative. Pirated e-books, for example, can be easily converted to any format, for any player. And pirated games don’t include antipiracy technology that force-quits your game every time your network connection bobbles. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Perry Moore has written more than 50 inspirational novels, including Saddleback Educational Publishing’s new Lockwood Lions flip-book series, which was coauthored with Moore’s husband, former NFL football player Derrick Moore.]]></description>
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							<description><![CDATA[More readers than ever are reading more books than ever. Yet for more than two decades now, for at least as long as I’ve been in publishing––and certainly preceding the rise of Amazon––the lamentations of publishers and storeowners have filled the land. There have been little blips along the way when things seemed to be looking up—a Harry Potter series here, an Oprah Winfrey selection there—but overall it’s been a long, sad decline. We’ve been an industry of enablers: giving huge discounts to mollify ailing stores; overstocking books to mollify ailing publishers. The outcome, more often than not, has been and continues to be shelf space stuffed with unsold product and massive returns. A very few benefit while almost everyone else involved, be they retailer, author, or publisher, suffers.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[When I first entered the publishing industry back in 2006 as an author, there was still a giant chasm separating print and digital authors. The “digital books aren’t real books” mindset was still firmly in place, and even today, that lingers.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Brian Gibson, CEO of the supplier of the ubiquitous supply chain system commonly referred to as Vista, died on April 22 after a 14-month fight against cancer. Most people in publishing will probably not know of Brian, but his impact on the industry over the past 30 years, in both the U.K. and the U.S., was profound.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[If you’re a bricks-and-mortar bookseller, does your blood pressure rise when you think about e-retailers and their deep discounts? Do you look at e-books as a threat or an opportunity? Depending on how you answered those questions, you might need to ask yourself another one: what business are you really in?]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[I’ve ghosted books on nearly every conceivable subject. The first question every new ghostwriting client asks is, “Are you an expert or do you know anything about [fill in the blank]?” My answer is almost always the same: “No.”]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we need to be pushed to do what is best for us. That certainly appears to be the case with the publishers’ business model for e-books and its competitive strategy with Amazon.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[This summer, I’m learning to ride a motorcycle. I plan to jump it through a flaming hoop at my book party. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A fascinating experiment in bookselling was recently launched in Tokyo: Daikanyama T-Site, created by Tsutaya, one of Japan’s leading bookstore chains. Unlike most of its stores, which are pulsating, neon-lit urban hubs where you can buy books, magazines, coffee, and DVDs till late at night, Daikanyama is more sedate, with glass walls, weathered wood floors and shelves, with a target audience of the over-50s, or what the Japanese call the “silver market.”]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[At a book fair I once signed two books to “Tom.” Tom turned out to be “Rod.” Rod refused my offer to sign new books for him. With a malicious grin, Rod said he planned to show my bloopers to his friends as evidence of our close personal friendship.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Maris Kreizman is audiobooks editor at eMusic, a music and audiobooks digital retailer. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[In a recent New York Times T magazine article, Holly Brubach, a writer I admire and a friend of Tanaquil Le Clercq, took umbrage at my audacity for depicting the life of the late great ballerina and fifth wife of George Balanchine in my forthcoming novel, The Master’s Muse. Brubach contends that fiction which imagines the lives of “real, usually famous people” aren’t novels at all, but a sort of lesser form, “custom-made for a culture fixated on celebrity.” Examples she cites are Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife: A Novel and Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life. I assume she would include Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, two recent books in the category that have captivated many readers.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[If I were in charge of the world of publishing, my first edict would be Honor Thy Booksellers. Forget those pie charts showing bookstore sales on the wane, those bloggers or twitterers with adoring followers, the number of books Amazon can sell in a single click of its mighty mouse. Independent booksellers are the single most powerful cog in the publishing continuum and should be celebrated as such. Publishers’ reps, librarians, legitimate book reviewers, and literary critics are not far behind.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 48,841,966 people live in rural areas. An “urban” area has a population of 50,000 or more. An “urban cluster” covers towns with 2,500 to 50,000 people. Below that is “rural.” Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural areas, and I’m one of them. I choose not to live in an urban area for a variety of reasons and, for the most part, it doesn’t affect my quality of life. I’m a midlist author, and my agent and editor couldn’t care less where I live. E-mail and telephones keep me connected, and FedEx keeps the paperwork flowing (when real paper is required.)]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I always knew I would have something to do with books. I even dared to hope that I might write one. Books were my initiation into worlds far removed from my quiet nursery life in a majestic home on the banks of the Nile. They exerted an irresistible pull on my childhood, a magnetic component of adventure, companionship, exotica, and escape. I was a voracious reader, often to my mother’s despair.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago I moved off the power grid—away from the cultural electricity of New York City and urban life in general. It was a vocational leap of faith, but very similar to the leaps that all writers coming to work at a remote colony must make. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[The Value Of a Book]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[How much money is a book really worth? Is it the $25 to $30 publishers typically ask for the hardcover edition? Is it the discounted price plus shipping that an online retailer charges? What if there’s only a Kindle edition you can buy, for 99 cents? Is that same book worth nothing on days when it’s given away free? Is it even correct to call such a digital entity “a book”? The easy answer is that a book is whatever readers decide is a book, and it’s worth whatever they’re willing to pay for it.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Shoptalk]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Publishers Weekly arrives in my mailbox each week, as its name says, which seems too often sometimes. I’m apt to groan when I see it because I know it will likely contain some depressing news about the publishing world, and because I also know that I must read it, for it is my link to what’s going on in this world. But I subscribe because I consider it one of the tools of my trade: writing. And after settling down with a new issue of PW, I am always enlightened.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[The ToC Perspective: A Call for a Unified E-book Market]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[O'Reilly Media's general manager, publisher and a chair of the TOC conferences, Joe Wikert, takes on the current e-book market in his first column for <i>PW</i>. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Ghosts of a Memoir]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write my own memoir, but I’d get stuck with every try. If I dug up my childhood demons, my parents would be devastated. Besides, what if my story was boring? I preferred the safety of reporting on other people’s lives for magazines and Web sites. I also write young adult novels (I’ve written seven), gleefully stepping out of reality instead of diving into it. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[With A Little Help: Digital Lysenkoism]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics. Soviet-era scientists were required, on pain of imprisonment, to endorse Lysenkoism, a discredited theory of inheritance favored by Stalin for ideological reasons.]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[The Power Of the Pen]]></title>
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							<description><![CDATA[I have always loved making stories, and by that I mean the process of making them, taking the words in my head and giving them physical form. A gift of a blank notebook for my eighth birthday inspired my first attempt at a novel. I only got six pages into it, but I took great joy in ruling pencil lines for my sentences. At 10, I spent a year’s worth of pocket money on a typewriter. I still remember the satisfaction its smart click against the page gave me. But in the end I did not love my typewriter. My inability to achieve perfection with it often made me cry. I was too stern for erasing fluid, and I didn’t like processions of errors across a page. At 15, a computer seemed the answer. My parents made me take a typing course, which taught me a great deal about the dating situations of the other students (mainly young women in their 20s) and also how to type fast. ]]></description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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