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<description><![CDATA[Mr. Wright wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent, then vanished into alcoholism and despair.    
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<title>The Future of Reading: Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/books/06games.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.    
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<title>Ideas &#x26; Trends: Lost in Translation? A Swede&#x2019;s Snub of U.S. Lit</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05mcgrath.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Prize has eluded America’s writers. Insularity is one unflattering explanation.    
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<title>Books: Cloak, Dagger and Abuses of a New Era</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/05lyal.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[John le Carré’s new novel examines spying in the post-9/11 era.    
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<title>Foraging: Manhattan: Idlewild Books</title>
<link>http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/travel/05FORAGING.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The bookstore groups guidebooks and phrasebooks with literary fiction and memoirs -- books that, at first glance, might not be what the average traveler would think to pack in her suitcase.    
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<title>The Arts | Books: Writing as Vicarious Experience</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/nyregion/westchester/05writerwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Tropper, author of “The Book of Joe,” understands if you feel disappointed upon meeting him. His quiet suburban life is nothing like that of his characters.    
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<title>Out in the Cold</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Furst-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In John le Carré’s latest novel, a young fugitive, half Chechen, half Russian, shows up in the German port city of Hamburg in the aftermath of 9/11.    
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<title>Crucibles</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Greer-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Inquisition, the Salem trials, the Red Scare: a survey of witch hunts over the past two millenniums.    
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<title>Twisted Sisters</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Julia Glass’s new novel focuses on the complicated emotions — love, hate, envy, grief — that form between female siblings.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Hell-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>I Is Another</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Hell-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Edmund White's capsule biography of Rimbaud, poetry's enfant terrible.     
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Cokal-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Suffering Suffragist</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Cokal-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A novel about an admiral, his unfaithful wife and her activist friend.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Heilbrunn-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Shadow President</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Heilbrunn-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Barton Gellman’s biography paints Dick Cheney as the master manipulator of the Bush administration.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Moehringer-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Big Country</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Moehringer-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fifty states, 50 essays, from the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri, Anthony Doerr and Heidi Julavits.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Miles-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>O, Brother</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Miles-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In Per Petterson’s novel, a woman remembers the bold, reckless, politically committed boy who taught her how to live.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Anders-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Rich Bank, Poor Bank</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Anders-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Why has Goldman Sachs survived as its peers crumble around it? In this corporate history, Charles D. Ellis credits its culture.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Adams-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Torch Song for Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Adams-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Pakistani author portrays a complex political situation in a novel that contains both savagery and tenderness.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Essay: My Parrot, My Self</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[From Apsethos the Libyan to Perry Mason, the talking parrot has made its literary mark.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Handy-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Children&#x27;s Books: Picture-Book Politics</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Handy-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Campaign biographies for kids are a sunny, upbeat lot, unlike the grown-up versions.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Cohen-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Children&#x2019;s Books: Death by Squirt Gun</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Cohen-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[This parody of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett is a young adult version of a rain-soaked noir.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Cowles-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Children&#x2019;s Books: Monster Management</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Cowles-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two new picture books, one trick and one treat, cut children's primal fears down to size.    
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<title>Bookshelf</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Bookshelf-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[More children’s books reviewed.    
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<title>Archive: Book Review Podcast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This Week: Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey lead a tour of all 50 states; Motoko Rich with news on the book world; Bruce Handy on campaign biographies for kids; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news.    
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<title>The Funny Pages: Ii: Sunday Serial: The Girl in the Green Raincoat: Chapter 4: All the Man&#x2019;s Wives</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/magazine/05serial-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Last chapter: While trawling the Internet, Tess discovered a photograph of the missing woman Carole Epstein, nee Massinger, taken a few years back, while toasting the bride and groom at a wedding.    
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<title>Roddy Doyle: &#x22;Sleep&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/10/20/081020fi_fiction_doyle</link>
<description><![CDATA[It was the thing he&#8217;d always loved about her. The way she could sleep. When they&#8217;d just started going with each other, before they really knew each other, he&#8217;d lie awake, hoping she&#8217;d wake up, praying for it, dying. But even then he&#8217;d loved to look at her while she&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Gary Snyder: &#x22;Mu Ch&#x26;#8217;i&#x26;#8217;s Persimmons&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for satisfying hunger other than a painted rice cake.
  --D&#333;gen, November, 1242. 
          
        On a back wall down the hall 
          
        lit by a side glass door 
          
        is the scroll of Mu Ch&#8217;i&#8217;s great 
        sumi painting, &#8220;Persimmons&#8221; 
          
        The wind-weights hanging from the 
        axles hold it&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Frederick Seidel: &#x22;Poem by the Bridge at Ten-shin&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This jungle poem is going to be my last.  
        This space walk is.  
        Racing in a cab through springtime Central Park,  
        I kept my nose outside the window like a dog.  
        The stars above my bed at night are vast.  
        I think it is uncool to call young women Ms&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Donald Hall: &#x22;Nymph and Shepherd&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[She died a dozen times before I died, 
        And kept on dying, nymph of fatality. 
        I could not die but once although I tried. 
          
        I envied her. She whooped, she laughed, she cried 
        As she contrived each fresh mortality, 
        Numberless lethal times before I died. 
          
        I plunged, I plugged, I&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Yiyun Li: &#x22;Gold Boy, Emerald Girl&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[He was raised by his mother alone, as she was by her father. She wondered if his mother, who had set up their date, had told him about that.  
        Siyu was thirty-eight, and the man, Hanfeng, was forty-four. Siyu&#8217;s father, after supporting her through college, had remarried, choosing&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Spencer Reece: &#x22;Eclogue&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Juno Beach, on Pelican Lake, 
        Joseph Saul ate potato chips off a paper plate  
        and fed the broken bits to a duck.  
        He was accompanied by Laurie McGraw,  
          
        whom he met at the Alzheimer&#8217;s Support Group--  
        she had been a caregiver, he had a diagnosis, 
        and together their eyes&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Albert Goldbarth: &#x22;The Way&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The sky is random. Even calling it &#8220;sky&#8221; 
        is an attempt to make a meaning, say, 
        a shape, from the humanly visible part 
        of shapelessness in endlessness. It&#8217;s what 
        we do, in some ways it&#8217;s entirely what 
        we do--and so the devastating rose 
          
        of a galaxy&#8217;s being born, the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Rosanna Warren: &#x22;Romanesque&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/10/06/081006po_poem_warren</link>
<description><![CDATA[Morning: smells of serious cooking float in the street. 
        Onions give up the ghost, flesh sizzles, a metal spoon 
        clinks on a dish. We&#8217;ve lived here for eight hundred years, 
        we&#8217;re still hungry. Ancient mosses nibble the stones. 
        We found such fierce ways to love. 
        A demon for each, carved&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Daniel Alarc&#x26;#243;n: &#x22;The Idiot President&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/10/06/081006fi_fiction_alarcon</link>
<description><![CDATA[When I was first out of the Conservatory, I did a two-month stint with a theatre group called Diciembre. It was an established company that had formed during the anxious years of the war, when it was known for its brazen trips into the conflict zone, bringing theatre to&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Anne Carson: &#x22;Tag&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/10/06/081006po_poem_carson</link>
<description><![CDATA[THIS 
          
        Insatiable April, trees in place,  
        in their scraped-out place, 
        their standing.  
        Standing way.  
        Their red branch areas, 
        green shoot areas (shock),  
        river, that one. 
        I surprised a goose and she hissed.  
        I walk and walk with cold hands. 
        Back at the house it is filled with longing, 
        nothing&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Don&#x27;t Ask Henry &#xB7; Alan Hollinghurst: Sissiness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The story of Belchamber's publication is probably better known than the book itself, which, like its author, has suffered the ambiguous fate of becoming an accessory to the life of a more important writer. It is his friend Henry James who keeps Sturgis's novel distantly in view, at the same time as casting a long shadow over it. James read it in proof, and wrote a characteristic sequence of letters to Sturgis about it, beginning with neat praise and mild demurrals, but quickly building up to such fundamental criticisms of the book that the demoralised author said he would withdraw it altogether; at which James protested and pleaded, successfully though not with any retraction of the criticisms he had made.]]></description>
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<title>Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill &#xB7; Jonathan Raban: Sarah Palin&#x27;s Cunning</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin has put a new face and voice to the long-standing, powerful, but inchoate movement in US political life that one might see as a mutant strain of Poujadism, inflected with a modern American accent. There are echoes of the Poujadist agenda of 1950s France in its contempt for metropolitan elites, fuelling the resentment of the provinces towards the capital and the countryside towards the city, in its xenophobic strain of nationalism, sturdy, paysan resistance to taxation, hostility to big business, and conviction that politicians are out to exploit the common man.]]></description>
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<title>Why Not Eat an Eclair? &#xB7; David Runciman: Why Vote?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone vote for Barack Obama? Not why would anyone want to see Obama elected president rather than John McCain (or Hillary Clinton for that matter), but why would anyone who desired that outcome think that his or her individual vote could make the slightest difference in helping to bring it about? General elections are never decided by a single vote, so no one's vote is ever going to be missed. If you want Obama to win, and plan to vote for him, but you forget, or find yourself otherwise detained, don't worry - the final result will be unaffected by your failure to show up, even if you happen to live in a swing state like Ohio or Florida. If Obama is winning the state, he will do perfectly well without you; if he is losing, there is nothing you can do to help him get over the line, because the winning line will always be further away than your paltry individual vote. Either way, you are not needed, so why bother to vote at all?]]></description>
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<title>The Khugistic Sandal &#xB7; Jenny Diski: Jews &#x26; Shoes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Great shoemakers of our day: Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin. None of them, I think, very Jewish. And if there had been any great pre or postwar Jewish shoe mavins they would certainly have been pointed out to me by my parents, who identified any Jewish achiever in any sphere as one of the family: Alma Cogan, Einstein, Marx, boxing promoter Jack Solomons (the Sultan of Sock), it didn't matter what they were known for, everyone counted. Even, like the Kray Twins, a little bit Jewish and murderers would make them ours and make us proud - but there was never a mention of shoe designers.]]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Clancy Sigal: Among the Draft-Dodgers</title>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Adam Shatz: Obsession with Islam</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/shtz01_.html</link>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Michael Wood on Max Ophuls</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/wood01_.html</link>
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<title>Why It Matters &#xB7; Ellen Meiksins Wood: Quentin Skinner&#x27;s Detachment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is it possible, Quentin Skinner asks, that an entire tradition of political thought, including the most influential conception of freedom in anglophone political theory in the past half-century, 'has been insensitive to the range of conditions that can limit our freedom of action'? A reasonable question, one might think, not only about Isaiah Berlin's influential defence of 'negative' against 'positive' liberty but about the whole tradition of liberalism. Yet Skinner's own understanding of liberty is not immune to the same awkward question.]]></description>
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<title>What&#x27;s in a Number? &#xB7; Donald MacKenzie: The $300 Trillion Question</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Judged by the amount of money directly dependent on it, the British Bankers' Association's London Interbank Offered Rate matters more than any other set of numbers in the world. Libor anchors contracts amounting to some $300 trillion, the equivalent of $45,000 for every human being on the planet. It's a critical part of the infrastructure of financial markets but, like plumbing, doesn't usually get noticed. Only a handful of economists, and no other academics, have ever looked in any detail at Libor, and even the financial press didn't show much interest in how Libor is calculated until this spring, when there was sharp controversy over whether these crucial numbers could be trusted.]]></description>
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<title>After Kemal &#xB7; Perry Anderson</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n18/ande01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a famous essay, one of the most acute self-critical reflections to emerge out of any of the youthful revolts of the 1960s, Murat Belge - a writer unrivalled in his intelligence of the political sensibility of his generation - told his contemporaries on the Turkish left, as yet another military intervention came thudding down over more than a decade of ardent hopes, that they had misunderstood their own country in a quite fundamental way.1 They had thought it a Third World society among others, ready for liberation by guerrilla uprisings, in the towns or in the mountains. The paradox they had failed to grasp was that although the Turkey of the time was indeed 'a relatively backward country economically . . . and socially' - with a per capita GNP similar to that of Algeria and Mexico, and adult literacy at a mere 60 per cent - it was 'relatively advanced politically', having known 'a two-party system in which opposing leaders have changed office a number of times after a popular mandate, something which has never happened in Japan for example'. In short, Turkey was unusual in being a poor and ill-educated society that had yet remained a democracy as generally understood, if with violent intermissions - Belge was writing in the aftermath of the military putsch of 1980.]]></description>
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<title>Making Do and Mending &#xB7; Rosemary Hill reads Penelope Fitzgerald&#x27;s Letters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1997, three years before her death, Penelope Fitzgerald asked her American publisher, Chris Carduff, who had offered to send her any books she wanted, for a copy of Wild America by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher. An account of a 30,000-mile journey around the continent by two naturalists, it was originally published in 1955 and was being reissued in memory of Peterson, who had recently died. Fitzgerald wanted it, however, for the sake of his co-author, who had been her cousin. 'I've so often driven about with him,' she told Carduff, 'with the zoo's first Chinese panda in the back of his car, together with a supply of bamboo shoots.' (Fisher, she explained, was working at London Zoo.) After five hundred pages of her letters the reader is, if not exactly used to this sort of thing, then perfectly prepared for it. The eruption of the startling, the comic and the inexplicable, into a life that Fitzgerald was often at pains to portray as humdrum, gives her correspondence its character and makes these letters, written mostly to family and friends on small occasion or none and with no eye on posterity, completely compelling.]]></description>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; R.W. Johnson: Robbie Gets His Gun</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n18/john01_.html</link>
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<title>Letters</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/letters.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 19]]></description>
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<title>Table of contents</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 19]]></description>
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<title>Booker club: A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/13/fiction-booker-prize</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sam Jordison: As with others on the list, Toltz's 700-plus-page debut is another potentially excellent book undone by its excesses]]></description>
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<title>German literary critic rejects lifetime-achievement gong live on air</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/13/germany-television</link>
<description><![CDATA[Germany's top literary critic spurned a lifetime-achievement prize and tore into television. By Jess Smee]]></description>
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<title>Patrick Barkham meets survival expert Ray Mears</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/oct/13/television-wildlife</link>
<description><![CDATA[He admires David Cameron and thinks it's sometimes better to shoot wildlife than photograph it. Survival expert Ray Mears is full of surprises, Patrick Barkham discovers]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/12/blackhistorymonth-equality">
<title>Bonnie Greer: My hero, James Baldwin, was the outsider&#x27;s outsider</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/12/blackhistorymonth-equality</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Greer: My hero, James Baldwin, introduced me to the idea of claiming an identity through exile. Despite censure, it brought him peace]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/12/recommended-piano-books">
<title>Piano and keyboard guide part 2: recommended piano books</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/12/recommended-piano-books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Recommended books for pianists]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/clubs-music">
<title>Book review: Club Kids by Raven Smith</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/clubs-music</link>
<description><![CDATA[A good nightclub needs its freaks. And this history of clubland eccentrics suggests they're back in droves, says Paul Mardles]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/johnlennon-popandrock">
<title>Book review: John Lennon by Philip Norman</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/johnlennon-popandrock</link>
<description><![CDATA[Terrific on Lennon's early years but its scope is limited]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/12/fiction7">
<title>Agincourt wins battle of bestsellers</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/12/fiction7</link>
<description><![CDATA[Novel by Bernard Cornwell commemorates the English triumph at the Battle of Agincourt]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2008/oct/12/nobelprize-awardsandprizes">
<title>The Observer panel: Has the Nobel Prize lost its glitter?</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2008/oct/12/nobelprize-awardsandprizes</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Observer Panel: Last week's announcements of the Nobel Prize winners generated little excitement and some scorn]]></description>
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<title>New literary prize is just what the doctor ordered</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/12/awardsandprizes</link>
<description><![CDATA[Key aim of award, judged by Jo Brand and panel, is to attract more people to the world of medicine]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/12/oxforduniversity-highereducation">
<title>Alan Bennett&#x27;s teenage musings rediscovered</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/12/oxforduniversity-highereducation</link>
<description><![CDATA[Exeter College to publish undergraduate comments and jokes taken from college suggestion book]]></description>
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<title>Victoria Coren: If I wanted a cup of coffee, I&#x27;d go to a cafe, not a library</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/oct/12/1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Victoria Coren: I admire Andy Burnham for understanding that libraries should be at the heart of the community]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/12/tonimorrison-fiction">
<title>The Observer profile: Toni Morrison - When she speaks, America listens</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/12/tonimorrison-fiction</link>
<description><![CDATA[Profile: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for portrayal of the African American experience. Toni Morrison returns with a new novel and stays as essential as ever]]></description>
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<title>Writers pen protests at terror bill</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/12/uksecurity-terrorism</link>
<description><![CDATA[42 writers will publish work attacking government's plan to hold terrorist suspects without charge for 42 days]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/12/fiction6</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Almost Moon by Alice SeboldThe Almost Moon suffers from a heroine who is hard to like, says Imogen Carter]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95615028&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032">
<title>Le Clezio, Portrait Of A Gentle Writer</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95615028&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Though born in France, Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustav Le Clezio is a nomadic writer, whose work has been defined by his life of travel around the world. For him, storytelling means melting into the background.]]></description>
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<title>Publisher Of Palin Biography Hits Jackpot</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94822349&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[A small publisher in suburban Seattle has hit the big time with a biography of Sarah Palin. Epicenter Press published Sarah: How A Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down months before Palin hit the national spotlight.]]></description>
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<title>The Booker Prize: Our London Cabbie&#x27;s Review</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95633551&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Who needs the Booker Prize committee when we have our own Will Grozier? The London cabbie reviews the short list of books ahead of Tuesday's announcement of the Man Booker prizewinner.]]></description>
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<title>Memoir Lives Life As A Widow</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95633555&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anne Roiphe was so dependent on her husband she literally didn't know how to open the front door without him. In her memoir of widowhood, she also remembers how he told her, years before he died, that he felt their marriage had been so strong, she would be able to find happiness again.]]></description>
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<title>A Furious Voice, Forged In The &#x27;Fire&#x27; Of Prejudice</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95365363&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jamaican-American novelist Michelle Cliff's essays &mdash; urgent, stripped of lyrical excess, discomfiting but illuminating &mdash; bear witness to a rough life that has shaped a radical, powerful and essential artist.]]></description>
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<title>Photographer Captures MLK&#x27;s &#x27;Most Daring Dream&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95602512&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Photographer Robert Houston chronicled Martin Luther King's 1968 Poor People's Campaign. Now his images can be seen in the exhibit, "Most Daring Dream," at Morgan State University. For more, Farai Chideya talks with Aaron Bryant, curator of Houston's exhibition.]]></description>
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<title>French Novelist Awarded Nobel Literature Prize</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95567825&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature. Antoine Compagnon, a professor of French Literature at Columbia University, says there are two periods in Le Clezio's work: it was more experimental in the 1960s and '70s, and later it featured traveling and exoticism.]]></description>
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<title>Celebrating Grace Paley&#x27;s Uniquely Feminine Voice</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95549139&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Writer Alix Kates Shulman remembers the 1960s as an age where men dominated the literary scene &mdash; that is, until Grace Paley's quirky urban voice and modernist short stories began to challenge the notion of what constituted great reading.]]></description>
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<title>Chef Jeff&#x27;s Redemption Story</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95550183&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jeff Henderson rose from Los Angeles' mean streets to become the executive chef at two top Las Vegas hotels, and wrote a best selling memoir. Now he aims to pass on what he's learned to other struggling young adults in a new reality TV show titled The Chef Jeff Project.]]></description>
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<title>French Novelist Wins Nobel Prize In Literature</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95547747&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Swedish Academy praised Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio for his adventurous novels, essays, non-fiction and children's literature. His work is often about wanderers, people on a quest for meaning and grappling with national histories.]]></description>
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<title>Controversy Embroils Nobel Literature Prize</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95537900&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even before the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature was announced Thursday morning, it was drawing attention &mdash; for the wrong reasons. Last week, a Nobel official seemed to nix the possibility of an American winner when he said, "Europe still is the center of the literary world ... not the United States."]]></description>
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<title>Novels Stitch Tightly Woven Tales Of Freedom</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95011333&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alan Cheuse reviews two historical novels, both with protagonists immersed in sewing and slavery: Breena Clarke's Stand the Storm and Frances de Pontes Peebles' The Seamstress.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Goldengrove&#x27; Traces The Contours Of Grief</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95232462&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nico, the 13-year-old narrator of Francine Prose's new novel, struggles to deal with the loss of her older sister. With her parents barely able to cope, Nico must navigate grief and growing up alone.]]></description>
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<title>Grief &#x26;mdash; And Growing Up &#x26;mdash; In &#x27;Goldengrove&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95358737&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[When her sister drowns, 13-year-old Nico must navigate grief and growing up at the same time. Francine Prose's Goldengrove captures the confusion of adolescence tenderly and without condescension.]]></description>
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<title>Le Carre Tackles Terror In &#x27;A Most Wanted Man&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95365962&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1032</link>
<description><![CDATA[John le Carre, a one-time British intelligence officer, has been writing spy stories for more than 40 years. In his latest novel, he explores the complexities of the war on terror.]]></description>
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<title>Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/PxMgutyPoy0/article.pl</link>
<description><![CDATA[jgoguen writes "Nagios, originally known as Netsaint, has been a long-time favourite for network and device monitoring due to its flexibility, ease of use, and efficiency. Nagios provided, and still provides today, a low-cost, versatile alternative to commercial network monitoring applications. Nagios 3 takes a huge step forward compared to Nagios 2, providing improved flexibility, ease of use and extensibility, all while also making significant performance enhancements. Due to its extensibility and ease of use, no device or situation has yet been found that cannot be monitored using Nagios and a pre-made or custom script, plug-in or enhancement." Read on for the rest of jgoguen's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/ZS_rWKlEZfQ/article.pl</link>
<description><![CDATA[Martin Ecker writes "Mobile phones and other embedded devices are getting more and more powerful each year. The availability of dedicated hardware for 3D rendering is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and the latest mobile phones come with 3D hardware acceleration that rivals the power of desktop graphics hardware. OpenGL ES 2.0 is the latest version of a cross-platform, low-level graphics API to utilize these new resources available in embedded devices. The OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide published by Addison-Wesley Publishing aims to help the reader make use of the full power of OpenGL ES 2.0 to create interesting 3D applications." Keep reading for the rest of Martin's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/3DuMbFzgjO4/article.pl</link>
<description><![CDATA[cgjherr writes "If the recent financial meltdown has left you wondering, 'When does exponential decay function stop?' then I have the book for you. Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis is the kind of book that only comes along every twenty years. A tome so densely packed with scientific and mathematical formulas that it almost dares you to try and understand it all. A "For Dummies" book starts with a gentle introduction to the technology. This is more like a "for Mentats" book. It assumes that you know Excel very well. The first chapter alone will have you in awe as you see the author turn the lowly Excel into something that rivals Mathematica using VBA, brains, and a heaping helping of fortitude." Read on for the rest of Jack's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Working Effectively with Legacy Code</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/S2fr4mjyR3M/article.pl</link>
<description><![CDATA[Merlin42 writes "I recently took a Test-Driven-Development (TDD) training course and the teacher recommended that I read "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers. First things first, a note about the title. Feathers defines "Legacy Code" a bit different than you may expect, especially if you are not into the XP/Agile/TDD world. I have heard (and used) a number of definitions for "legacy code" over the years. Most of these definitions have to do with code that is old, inherited, difficult to maintain, or interfaces with other 'legacy' hardware/software. Feathers' definition is 'code without tests.' For those not into TDD this may seem odd, but in the TDD world, tests are what make code easy to maintain. When good unit tests are in place, then code can be changed at will and the tests will tell automatically you if you broke anything." Read on for the rest of Kevin's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Clean Code</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/jFUT1zWTw58/article.pl</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cory Foy writes "As developers, system admins, and a variety of other roles in IT, we have to deal with code on a daily basis. Sometimes it's just one-off scripts we never have to see again. Sometimes we stare at something that, for the life of us, we can't understand how it came out of a human mind (or, as the book puts it, has a high WTF/minute count). But there is a time when you find code that is a joy to use, to read and to understand. Clean Code sets out to help developers write that third kind of code through a series of essay-type chapters on a variety of topics. But does it really help?" Read below to find out.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Ninja Handbook</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Equal parts ninja geekery and pop-cultural satire, The Ninja Handbook falls into that odd category of book that presents fiction as reality. Numerous Guides to Piracy have been published, and more than a few authors have taken a crack at Zombie Survival Guides, the most popular spin-off being the zombie novel World War Z, which is now on its way towards Hollywood. Of course, the creators of the Ask a Ninja website have taken the opposite tack here, having first staked their claim as an Internet video sensation before moving on to "old media."" Keep reading below to find out what secret moves Michael learned from this book.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Plane Simple Truth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[brothke writes "In the TV show House, M.D., a premise that protagonist Dr. Greg House holds dear is that people are liars and stupid. Real life is often not far from House's observation. At the general public level, people are often misled by their lack of common sense, their deficiency in understanding statistics and basic science, and therefore fall victim to the lies of the myriad charlatans that claim to have something that fixes everything. A piece I wrote on that issue, New York News Radio &mdash; The voice of bad science, details that. While it is too broad to call the authors of Fuel efficiency of commercial aircraft: An overview of historical and future trends liars; their mediocre research created the scenario that far too many took their research as reality. Known as the Peeters report, after lead author P.M. Peeters, the authors of Plane Simple Truth refute the wide-spread belief that the fuel efficiency gains in the commercial aviation sector are erroneous, which is the principle theme of the Peeters report." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Intellectual Property and Open Source</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "There isn't a person writing code in this country who is not impacted by US intellectual property laws. I think that it is safe to say, that not all coders have a strong understanding of just what those laws are, let alone what they mean. Stepping into this gap is programmer become lawyer Van Lindberg with his new book Intellectual Property and Open Source. Lindberg has really done something special with this volume. I don't think I've ever read a tech oriented work where I've felt so convinced that I was reading something that would become a standard by which others would come to be judged." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Learning Drupal 6 Module Development</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/Boaw9ojhlNs/article.pl</link>
<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the content management systems (CMSs) that a Web developer could use for creating a new site, the best ones allow the developer to extend the chosen CMS's capabilities, by adding new functionality, in the form of third-party modules. This is one of many reasons why Drupal is growing in popularity: Developers can choose from hundreds of Drupal modules but not all functionality that a developer might want has been captured in a module, and many of the modules are unfinished or otherwise limited in capabilities. Fortunately, PHP programmers can create their own modules, and one way to get up to speed is Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, authored by Matt Butcher."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Quests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Quests have always been a part of fantasy gaming; from the earliest days of Dungeons &amp; Dragons to World of Warcraft's myriad quest lines, quests have given players purpose beyond button-pressing and mindless grinding. Jeff Howard's Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narrative is an exploration of such quests in both literary and gaming contexts, comparing and contrasting their appearances in each medium and striving to bring the two worlds closer together by imbuing game quests with more meaning." Read below for the rest of Michael's reviewRead more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Blown to Bits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ray Lodato writes "Few people would deny that the world has changed significantly since the explosion of the Internet. Our access to immense volumes of data has made our lives both easier and less secure. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis have written an intriguing analysis of many of the issues that have erupted due to the ubiquity of digital data, not only on the Internet but elsewhere. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, published by Addison-Wesley, digs into many of the ramifications of making so much information available to the world at large. As I read through the book, I was alternately fascinated and horrified at what information is available, and how it is being used and abused." Keep reading for the rest of Ray's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews &#x26;mdash; Special Operations Team Raptor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you like stories about maverick billionaires, cliche mercenaries, government sponsored super hero teams, leading edge technology and the ultimate evil of an alien human resources dept. then Special Operations Team Raptor The African Incident, by Daniel A. Dawson, just might be for you. Weighing in at a mere 103 pages, SOTR will only waste a few hours of your life. While it may be as fresh and creative as a crafts class at summer camp, it's not a complete waste of your time. Keep reading below to see if your mom would like it as much as your macaroni art.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Zero Day Threat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "Zero Day Threat: the Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity is an interesting and eye-opening look at how banks and credit card companies make ID theft and fraud rather elementary. But with all that, this book must be read in the larger context of how today's society deals with, and is often oblivious to, risk. When is comes to risk, American society tolerates tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, gives millions in federal tobacco subsidies, and is oblivious about near-epidemics such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. With all that, it is doubtful that the myriad horror stories Zero Day Threat details will persuade Congress or the other players to do anything to curtail the problem with identity theft and internet fraud." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Bottom of The Barrel Book Reviews-Confessions of a Recovering Preppie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Michael de Mare's, Confessions of a Recovering Preppie, has been sitting on my desk a long time, for good reason. They say you can't always judge a book by it's cover but in this case, the unintentionally embarrassing front is perfect. Confessions is a painfully ordinary collection of college stories. Michael seems to have a different definition for the word preppie than the good people at Webster or I do. Even though the author specializes in cryptography, he seems unable to decipher any social situation, himself or the code to writing a book worth reading. Click below to see how confusing it gets.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>My Job Went To India</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh Skillings writes "The author, Chad Fowler, draws upon his experiences as a software engineer, a team leader over a group of Indian developers, and as a jazz musician, to describe 52 ways or tips that will help you to become a more valuable employee. These tips are described in two or three pages each, and are usually illustrated by a practical example or story. The tips are well thought-out, well-explained and make sense. Chad draws upon the open source movement as well, highlighting ways that contributing to and learning from open source can improve your career. These tips gave me greater respect and appreciation for the open source movement in general." Read on for the rest of Josh's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Instead of &#x2018;Chihuahua,&#x2019; try a book</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that the New York Times review called it only "reasonably diverting," it seems that "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" is No. 1 at the box office this holiday weekend.

    
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<title>No poetic justice for the US?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the US this year, much angst has been focused on the subject of the Nobel Prize and the disinclination of the Swedish judges to offer the award for literature to an American. But, says critic David Orr, in a piece in tomorrow's New York Times, there's actually an even ...

    
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<title>&#x2018;Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The day a stray cat unexpectedly arrived in our dog-centric home, my ardently cat-loving cousin Jeanne had a word of advice. “He’s not a dog,” she reminded me. “A dog leaps immediately into your heart. A cat arrives with a slow crawl.”

    
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<title>The Secret Life of Bees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I’m reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I love the dialogue, the national events mentioned, and the way bees are woven into the honey of the story.

    
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<title>&#x2018;The biggest selling writer in English you&#x2019;ve never heard of&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At least that's how the Guardian begins today's piece on Chetan Bhagat.

    
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<title>The Guns of August</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am now reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. It’s a “you are there” page turner. The female narrator is superb. I’d fight under her command any day.

    
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<title>&#x2018;The Forever War&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dexter Filkins, war correspondent for The New York Times, fittingly begins his wonderfully written and carefully researched debut book, The Forever War, in the middle of a nightmarish battle in Fallujah, Iraq.

    
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<title>The Nobel Prize goes to a cosmopolite</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh, those Swedes! Today the Nobel literary committee (to quote the Independent) "infuriated the bookies, delighted the bookish and thumbed its nose, again, at the American book industry" by awarding the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to half-British, half-French novelist and philosopher Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

    
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<title>Circling My Mother</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon is a rather matter-of-fact, almost angry, memoir about the author’s mother and her siblings. I’m just on page 100 of that 250-page book, but the voice is loud and clear.

    
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<title>&#x2018;The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin&#x2019;s Russia&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One warm September evening in 1959 – in the depths of the cold war – I was out strolling in Moscow with two American friends.As we waited to cross at a busy street off Red Square, a man in his 20s with an American accent approached us and asked if ...

    
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