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		<title>Book News for July 3, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!


Rachel Maddow (l.) and John Hodgman, wearing the world's best T-shirt and the world's second-greatest facial expression. (Via.)
Have a safe and happy weekend!

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		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7300</link>
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		<title>Flood Sleaze, Busting Ass, and Bohemians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How would you describe Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around?
If your sister or cousin was kind of artsy and lived with her kind of artsy boyfriend and two basset hounds and someone suddenly stuck a hammer in her hand and dropped her into a scary, flooded wasteland and said hey, y'all tear down this whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keats&#8217;s Afterlife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly
  Reviewed by Christopher Ricks
  Washington Post Book World
  Rome, November 30, 1820. John Keats, who at the age of twenty-five has less than three months to live, is writing to his friend Charles Brown in England:
I have an habitual feeling of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7298</link>
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		<title>Small Press Conversation: Chelsea Martin and Brandon Scott Gorrell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Sampsell notes: Brandon Scott Gorrell is a poet who lives in Seattle, Washington. His book During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present was just published by MuuMuu House. It's full of dryly humorous observations and what you might call postmodern confessional poems. Brandon recently emailed me and asked if I'd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7296</link>
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		<title>Book News for Thursday, July 2, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Caught In the Rye: Don't expect to read J. D. California's Fredrik Colting's "unauthorized sequel" 60 Years Later in the United States.  Not anytime soon, at least, as a federal judge has taken the side of J. D. Salinger's lawsuit and blocked the book's publication.
In her decision, Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Fredrik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artsy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artists and their art projects color the pages of Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around, my memoir of three bizarre years rebuilding my flooded life in New Orleans.  Probably more than I realized.  Here's a partial guide.
Citizen Loser
A guy named Jonathan had floated around the flood in an innertube taking photographs.  After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Satire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Trouble by Kate Christensen
  Reviewed by Katherine Dunn
  The Oregonian
[Editor's note: We'd like to welcome the Oregonian as our new Review-a-Day partner. Look for a new Oregonian review every Thursday.]
The term "Chick Lit" gives me hives. It reeks of patronizing scorn, but what's worse, a lot of the stuff that wears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7293</link>
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		<title>Powell&#8217;s Q&#038;A: Julia Quinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest project.
What Happens in London is the story of Lady Olivia Bevelstoke, a slightly bored debutante in regency England who starts spying on her neighbor when she hears a rumor that he killed his fiancée.  He didn't, of course; he's never even had a fiancée, but Sir Harry Valentine does work for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7290</link>
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		<title>Random Nola Book Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of New Orleans bookworms, I lost almost all my books in the flood. Piling all of my ruined belongings on the street for the debris trucks gave me a quick and crazy quasi-Buddhist lesson in impermanence that I can't seem to learn from or shake. In the past, I was always in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7292</link>
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		<title>A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
  Reviewed by Rebecca Donner
  Bookforum
  Multigenerational novels about women often elicit analogies to tapestries -- relationships are interwoven, themes are intertwined, and there is much braiding of narrative strands. Let us not likewise domesticate Kate Walbert's remarkable novel A Short History of [...]]]></description>
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