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		<title>Book News &#8211; 06.19.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitterers take on Ulysses: Forget about Ashton Kutcher. James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses, one of the most difficult novels in English, is on Twitter. Two devotees of Ulysses have adapted its 10th chapter to Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per post. Called Wandering Rocks, the chapter is especially well-suited to Twitter because it follows 19 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 06.05.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3271</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten Literary Tear Jerkers [Independent]
Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon: In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google. [NYT]
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 06.04.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3262</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Of A Lifetime: Mindblast, by Dambudzo Marechera: Mindblast (1984), the last book printed during his life, is unforgivably neglected. It is a literary scandal that it has never been published outside Zimbabwe. [Independent]
George Orwell: a life in quotes: &#8220;Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books involves constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 05.23.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3238</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran arrests &#8216;Agatha Christie serial killer&#8217;: Woman accused of drugging, suffocating and robbing her victims was inspired by classic crime novels, police claim [Guardian]
Tough Love for the Humanities: Kass argued that we only benefit from studying the humanities if we do so “in search of the good, the true, and the beautiful” &#8212; and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 05.20.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3223</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 02:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ten best film adaptations: [Independent] 
The giant of modern literature? It has to be The Gruffalo: The Gruffalo, currently the subject of many 10th birthday celebrations and a forthcoming movie, is based on a Chinese folk tale but its word-of-mouth success speaks to the great tradition of British storytelling for children, a tradition that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 05.15.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3149</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 02:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martha Mason, Who Wrote Book About Her Decades in an Iron Lung, Dies at 71: Martha spent the next year in hospitals before being sent home in an iron lung. Doctors told her parents she would live another year at most. She survived, she later said, because she was endlessly curious and there was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 05.02.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3121</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol Ann Duffy named as Poet Laureate: The new Poet Laureate was named today as Andrew Motion&#8217;s 10-year tenure comes to an end, with Carol Ann Duffy becoming the first female to hold the title. [Independent]
Roosevelt and the Jews: A Debate Rekindled: Now a piece of his foreign policy is also being re-evaluated in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 04.29.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3099</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ten Best Poetry Books [Independent]
‘The Elements of Style’ Turns 50: William Strunk Jr. wrote and self-published the famous “Little Book” as a professor of English. White, his student at Cornell in 1919 and later an author and essayist, first revised the text four decades later after returning it to prominence with an essay in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 04.20.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3036</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book returned to library 145 years overdue: $52,000 fine waived after book stolen during Civil War is given back to Virginia university [Guardian]
British thriller writers mount challenge to US &#8216;production line&#8217;: British thriller authors have joined forces to challenge what they are calling &#8220;the reign of the production-line American thriller writers&#8221; such as James Patterson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 04.19.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3022</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialite, 85, shocks New York with sex novel: Gloria Vanderbilt, whose family name is one of the most famed in Manhattan history, has written Obsession, the story of a woman who becomes entranced by her dead husband&#8217;s affair with a dominatrix. [Guardian]
The poetry, and wisdom, of Seamus Heaney: The Irish Nobel laureate may be on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 04.16.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3000</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is sex so hard to put into words?: At which point you start to suffer from writer&#8217;s droop. How are you going to encapsulate the earth-moving wonder, the erotic arousal and tender protectiveness of the longed-for moment? [Telegraph]
The stillness within Stephen Mitchell: The religious-text translator has learned from the book of Job and reveres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 04.10.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2911</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 Literary one-hit wonders [Times]
From Avon lady to dance hostess to prize-winning novelist&#8230;?: Korean-born author Nami Mun&#8217;s long journey to the shortlist for Orange award for new writing [Independent]
Is This the Future of the Digital Book?: Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and then roll them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 04.03.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2834</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best baseball books of 2009 [San Francisco Chronicle]
James Ellroy details his search for love in Playboy: The &#8220;L.A. Confidential&#8221; author later says he never masturbated on neighbors&#8217; lawns &#8212; &#8220;That was just hyperbole!&#8221; &#8212; but he was a dedicated peeper and self-described &#8220;perv&#8221; during his teenage years. [LA Times]
Book Of A Lifetime: I Shall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.23.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2816</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes kills himself: Nicholas Hughes hangs himself at his home in Alaska 46 years after his mother gassed herself. [Guardian]
Women more avid readers of books than men, survey says: A study of reading habits showed almost half of women are &#8216;page turners&#8217; who finish a book soon after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.19.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2753</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m 64: social worker is literary hit – after 20 years of trying: From churning out a first novel between shifts as a social worker to being listed for two of the most prestigious literary prizes; Gaynor Arnold still can&#8217;t think of herself as a critically acclaimed author. [Independent]
Book Sales in Europe Are Gaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.16.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2743</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Of A Lifetime: Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, By George Bourne: Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer is by George Bourne – a pseudonym for George Sturt, who ran a wheelwright&#8217;s shop in Farnham in the 1900s. The labourer of the title is a man called Bettesworth who was George Bourne&#8217;s gardener; the book is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.13.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2717</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 20 best travel books of all time [Telegraph]
Forgotten authors no. 26: Robert van Gulik: Although he also wrote essays and short stories, van Gulik remains best known for his Chinese mysteries. [Independent]
Alan Moore, author of &#8220;Watchmen,&#8221; reinvented the comic book: Over the past 30 years, author Alan Moore has almost single-handedly reinvented the comic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.11.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2706</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ten Best Rock Biographies: [Independent]
Errors Cast Doubt on a Baseball Memoir: But statistics from that season, transaction listings and interviews with his former teammates indicate that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or impossible. It comes during a difficult period for the publishing industry, which has recently had three major memoirs — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.10.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2694</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Moore: With wild hair and even wilder ideas, this reclusive Englishman looks like a figure from one of his hugely influential comic series. But don&#8217;t talk to him about Hollywood, especially not the soon-to-be-released Watchmen [Guardian]
Patrick Carman&#8217;s print-video hybrid targets readers for a digital age: &#8220;Mixing media is a way to bring kids back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.04.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2680</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet &#8216;is causing poetry boom&#8217;: Poetry, one of mankind&#8217;s oldest art forms, is enjoying a resurgence due to the internet, according to the writers themselves. [Telegraph]
Why can&#8217;t a woman write the Great American Novel?: Female authors hold their own on the bestseller lists, but Elaine Showalter&#8217;s provocative new history wonders why they get so little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 03.01.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2653</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-books will kill books, just as the iPod has killed music: For the moment you have to pay about the same to download a book as you do for a paperback, but it won&#8217;t be long before there are websites out their offering them for free. And no money will mean no authors. Not readable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 02.23.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2598</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only offensive thing about my novel is that it&#8217;s been banned: I originally hoped to launch my novel, The Gulf Between Us, at the first Dubai literary festival, which kicks off next week. But I won&#8217;t be there because the book has been banned. [Guardian]
Dickens&#8217;s Refuge for Fallen Women: The story of Charles Dickens&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 02.18.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2587</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholastic Accused of Misusing Book Clubs: Scholastic Inc., the children’s publisher of favorites like the Harry Potter, Goosebumps and Clifford series, may be best known for its books, but a consumer watchdog group accuses the company of using its classroom book clubs to push video games, jewelry kits and toy cars. [NYT]
How to create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 02.13.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon&#8217;s new Kindle 2, please read me a story: The Kindle 2 is sleeker and faster, stores more books and keeps a charge longer. Plus, there&#8217;s an extra twist: It talks. [Los Angeles Times]
How to start a reading revolution: It&#8217;s quite possible to find primary schools where older children don&#8217;t have the experience of reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 02.06.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2513</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twilight author Stephenie Meyer &#8216;can&#8217;t write worth a darn&#8217;, says Stephen King: King compared the Mormon author to JK Rowling, saying that both authors were &#8220;speaking directly to young people&#8221;. &#8220;The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can&#8217;t write worth a darn. She&#8217;s not very good,&#8221; he told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 02.04.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2503</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charing Cross &#8211; the fading world of books: An interactive guide to the corner of London once famous for its bookshops. [Guardian]
Book of a Lifetime: Four Quartets, By T S Eliot: To me the poems are essentially abstract meditations on time, faith, war, nature, love, beauty, life, death, redemption. It does not matter who you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 01.29.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2452</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Requiem by John Updike [NYT]
Renegade Updike: Even in advanced age, even as the victim of a debilitating disease, however, John Updike could muster a fearsome outrage. It was never in his tone of voice, which was always polite and measured. It was in his words, which he deployed like weapons. [Washington Post]
&#8216;He took the novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 01.27.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2358</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teacher proclaims Twain, Lee and Steinbeck irrelevant in Obama age: &#8220;The time has arrived to update the literature we use in high school classrooms. Barack Obama is [president] of the United States, and novels that use the &#8216;N-word&#8217; repeatedly need to go,&#8221; [Guardian]
Publishers Shed More Than 1,200 Jobs in 2008: Consolidations, recession take their toll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 01.16.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2228</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 novels everyone should read [Telegraph]
Who Says the Book Business Is Dead?: Now that the Kindle and other electronic readers are finally catching fire, publishing can start to rise from its ashes. [Daily Beast]
Toward an All E-Textbook Campus: Many colleges are experimenting with e-textbooks these days. But at Northwest Missouri State University, President Dean L. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book News &#8211; 01.12.09</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2205</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Literary quiz: Have you got the write stuff?: Which literary character&#8217;s first words to whom are: &#8220;How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive?&#8221; [Telegraph]
After 90 years, Pooh returns to Hundred Acre Wood in sequel: Christopher Robin and his bear of very little brain are set to make a literary comeback after the [...]]]></description>
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