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        <title>Robert Benchley</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[New York City's spots for book lovers]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-09-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.

"On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A new bar taps L.A. literary history]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-14 16:34:28</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.

"On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dorothy Parker and the Marriott circle [updated]]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-09-21 16:34:32</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.

"On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[29 literary films to fill your holidays [Updated]]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-12-21 16:34:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.

"On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dorothy Parker's lingering ghost]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-prj-0617-book-of-the-month-20120614,0,268987.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-06-14 18:05:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For my 14th birthday she had presented me with a book on scandals of the Amish, which I cherished; for my 15th, an oversized tub of Brussels sprouts wrapped in lingerie, which I hid under my bed. When I turned 16 &mdash; that day when one is supposed to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[50 ways to beat the heat]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-02 21:55:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's definitely time, way past time, to update this annual list of heat-beaters. Feel free to clip and save, mix and match, and add your own.

1. Delete all unwanted e-mails without opening them. Especially if they're from types who are always a bit hot...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bookmark: Oh, the literary injustices]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16 20:39:09</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[You know the feeling. You're looking at the best-seller list and a title catches your eye.

"What?!" you sputter. "That piece of (expletive deleted) is a hit, while (insert title of favorite obscure novel) is a flop? Ah, the injustice!"

Life is not fair....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[`Do what you think is best.']]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/tn-dpt-0217-bookmark-20120216,0,5875007.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2010-06-27 21:32:18</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[You know the feeling. You're looking at the best-seller list and a title catches your eye.

"What?!" you sputter. "That piece of (expletive deleted) is a hit, while (insert title of favorite obscure novel) is a flop? Ah, the injustice!"

Life is not fair....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Remembering 'Tinker to Evers to Chance']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-07-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[They are, arguably, the best-known Chicago Cubs of all time.

And though Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance last played together in 1912 &#8211; indeed, all have been dead more than 60 years -- their names live on among baseball fans.

All...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Updike, prize-winning writer of 'Rabbit' novels, dead at age 76]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-01-27 10:53:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.

Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Gatsby' Revisits a Stormy Life]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2002-08-01 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Considerable local interest may well greet "Gatsby in Hollywood," receiving its world premiere at the MET Theatre. Author Joshua Rebell traces the turbulent love affair of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham against the studio politics and media...]]></description>
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