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        <title>Samuel Johnson</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2011-08-02 21:33:16</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beryl Bainbridge dies; British novelist chronicled human relationships]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-07-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, an acute and acerbic chronicler of human relationships, died Friday of cancer in a London hospital, said Ed Wilson of her literary agency Johnson and Alcock. She was believed to be 77.

Bainbridge was born in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority'--Federal Judge Roger Vinson on Obama healthcare law]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-01-31 21:36:47</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, an acute and acerbic chronicler of human relationships, died Friday of cancer in a London hospital, said Ed Wilson of her literary agency Johnson and Alcock. She was believed to be 77.

Bainbridge was born in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Paperback Writers: James Boswell's 'London Journal 1762-1763'; Michael J. Arlen's 'Exiles' [Updated]]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The handwritten pages of James Boswell's " London Journal 1762-1763" languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University. This event, together with...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Prejudices: The Complete Series,' H.L. Mencken]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-12-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Prejudices

The Complete Series

H.L. Mencken

2 volume, boxed set

Library of America, $70

There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay &#8212; writers whom I spend half an hour...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[On reviewing]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-17 15:27:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[No one dreams of being a book reviewer when he grows up. You might dream of writing poems or novels or essays or even, if you are perennially picked last for teams in gym class, literary criticism (&ldquo;We don't want Robbins, you can have an extra...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[So much to see and do in London]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-07-25 12:17:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[LONDON - The exterior of Westminster Abbey is imposing and grandiose.

Our plan was simple: Pay the admission, stick our heads inside to see what it looked like, and then quickly duck out and move on to a museum.

The museum never happened.

That...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The perils of being a Princess Leia Pez dispenser, 30 years on]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-05 22:42:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After more than two hours of stories &mdash; about the sexual proclivities of dad Eddie Fisher, the Hollywood stylings of mom Debbie Reynolds, the marriage to the cerebral Paul Simon, the demands of the even-more-cerebral George Lucas, the gay second...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Arts-donation website helps Matt Porterfield turn his new film into a cliffhanger]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-08-07 05:39:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["I Used to Be Darker" is meant to jump from the blocks at full speed: A 19-year-old discovers that she's pregnant, grabs a knife and exacts devastating revenge on the cad who knocked her up. After she loses her job overseeing bumper cars at an Ocean...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mencken ponders American mediocrity]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-01-07 16:11:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay &#8212; writers whom I spend half an hour with before nodding off. They are master prose stylists whose command and fluency of English...]]></description>
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